BURMA: Prominant pro-democracy leaders charged

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Updated January 30, 2008 21:38:53

The jailed Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has reportedly held her first meeting in three months with members of her National League for Democracy party. The talks were held on Wednesday at a military facility outside Ms Suu Kyi's Rangoon home, where she's spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest. Meantime, the military authorities have filed criminal charges against ten activists arrested last August for organising protest rallies. Those rallies turned into mass demonstrations against the regime led by Buddhist monks, to which the military responded with a bloody crackdown. Four months on, the civil rights group Amnesty International says the military has failed to keep its promise to the UN to end its campaign of civilian arrests.

Presenter: Dian Islamiati
Speakers: Win Min, Burmese expert from Payap University in Thailand

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