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Burma’s military junta has taken steps to ensure it does not lose the country’s general election – which meant opposition groups such as Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy had to decide whether it was actually worthwhile taking part.
Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman finds that few of those in the know are optimistic that the Burmese authorities will follow through on their hints of freeing Aung San Suu Kyi.
Iconic Burmese democracy fighter Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed, according to reports. But her lawyer tells Channel 4 News he will believe it when he sees it.
Jon Snow
World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must understand that Brazil is a vast CO2-sapping country with a surging carbon-emitting economy, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
It crawls on, more a display of power over an individual than a legal process, one which people look to to guage quite how confident a military dictatorship feels. Aung San Suu Kyi today heard her defence’s closing arguments in her trial. In a Burmese court, inside the notorious Insein jail, she’s been standing before…
By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters. The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8…