News from October

Burmese Economy Has Hit Bottom; People Are Suffering

By Wai Moe The Irrawaddy October 17, 2007 http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9040

Pleas on Burma, but no clear vision

International Herald Tribune By Seth Mydans Monday, October 15, 2007 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/15/asia/myanmar.php?page=2

Junta uses scare tactics to cow residents, no word on U.N.'s democracy mission

3 October, 2007 Associated Press

Burmese Perspectives: Analysis by Derek Tonkin

Burmese Perspectives Letter from Guildford, Surrey 16 October 2007

Myanmar junta makes more arrests

Oct 3, 2007 Aung Hla Tun AFP

UN Envoy Meets Top Generals amid More Arrests by Soldiers

By Wai Moe October 2, 2007 The Irrawaddy

Burmese military has managed to hold together

Monday, 1 October 2007, 10:16 GMT 11:16 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7021567.stm

Information on Dead, Arrested, Missing is Hard to Find

By Saw Yan Naing October 2, 2007 The Irrawaddy

UN Garibalidi meets Aung San Suu Kyi for more than an hour

Ian MacKinnon, south-east Asia correspondent Monday October 1, 2007 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2180860,00.html

Rangoon Quiet But Raids on Monasteries Continue

Yeni, The Irrawaddy, 1 October 2007, http://www.irrawaddy.org/news/news_oct01_10.php

A Monk’s Tale of Protest and Escape From Myanmar

The New York Times By THOMAS FULLER Published: October 26, 2007