BURMA BULLETIN
ISSUE 33 – SEPTEMBER 2009

KEY STORY
• Mass release of prisoners
• Arrests and imprisonment
• Crackdown on monks
INSIDE BURMA
• Daw Suu reaches out to SPDC
• New parties galore
• Kokang offensive ends
• Conflict between SPDC and Wa
• BGF talks go nowhere
• SPDC Army desertions
• Bombs
• Food insecurity continues
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Detention conditions
DISPLACEMENT
• Refugees remain in China
INTERNATIONAL
• US unveils new Burma policy
• SPDC moans about sanctions
• UNSG: Free ALL dissidents
• Thailand crackdown
ECONOMY
• Gas deals increase instability
• Daewoo/CNPC/GAIL deal
• New 5,000 kyat note
• Jetstar propping up SPDC?
OTHER BURMA NEWS
REPORTS