BURMA BULLETIN
ISSUE 42 – JUNE 2010

KEY STORY
• More election restrictions
• Forced recruitment
• Parties’ financial woes
• Registration still delayed
INSIDE BURMA
• Nuclear program revealed
• Junta rattled by leaks
• New arms procurement
• Junta shelves BGF issue
• Daw Suu’s 65th birthday
• Daw Suu detention arbitrary
• Floods hit Arakan State
• Forced relocation continues
• Drug production increases
HUMAN RIGHTS
• “Worst of the worst”
• Prison sentence
• No unions in the Union
• ILO says forced labor continues
DISPLACEMENT
• Burma on US trafficking list
• Rohingya in Bangladesh
• Int’l concern over refugees
• Thailand migrant crackdown
INTERNATIONAL
• Visits to Naypyidaw
• US concerned by NK ties
• EU initiatives
ECONOMY
• Petrol stations open
• New deals with China
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