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A United Wa State Army soldier takes a sip of water from a comrade in Mongyawn, three kilometres from the Thai border in Burma, on May 12, 2001. The army’s political wing revealed at its fifth annual district-level conference, in Mongmaw District in the northeast of Shan State, on December 29, 2010, that it was reserving judgment on the idea of holding a second Panglong Conference to solve ethnic conflicts in Burma. The first such conference in 1947 agreed in principle for “full autonomy in internal administration for the Frontier Areas”. It has never been implemented by any civilian or military government since and many observers blame this fact for 60 years of ethnic conflict. Photo: AFP Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at a closed meeting with young people at National League for Democracy headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on Tuesday, December 28, 2010. More than 150 people attended. Photo: Mizzima Information Minister Kyaw Hsan presents prominent writer Maung Suu San with a gift at the Literati Day ceremony at Rangoon City Hall on December 26, 2010. About 90 out of the 135 Burmese literary figures invited attended the ceremony along with  several State Peace and Development Council (Burma’s ruling military junta’s name for itself) ministers. Photo: Mizzima Rangoon Vice-Mayor Maung Pa, Sports Minister Aye Myint and Information Minister Kyaw Hsan (front row, left to right), show respect for Burma’s prominent literary figures at the Literati Day ceremony at Rangoon City Hall on December 26, 2010. About 90 doyens of Burmese literature attended. Photo: Mizzima A resident of hard-hit Myebon Township’s Pyinone village clears debris as other villagers work to rebuild the nearly 100 per cent of the area’s homes destroyed by Cyclone Giri on October 28, 2010. Although government newspapers initially said the storm killed only 27 across Arakan State, more than 40 died in Pyinone alone, villagers said. The Category Four storm had hit Burma’s western coast bearing winds in excess of 120 miles per hour (193 km/h) four days earlier. Although the devastated region needed an estimated US$57 million, it had received just US$20.5 million, the UN Country Team in Burma said in a report on Monday. Photo: Mizzima Refugee aid organisation Burma Lifeline founder Inge Sargent (above) became the last princess of Hsipaw when she married Shan prince Sao Kya Seng, a US-trained engineer and leader of the principality in northern Shan State until Ne Win’s coup in 1962. The aid group gave its Sao Thusandi Leadership Award to Nang Moan Kaein of the Shan Women’s Action Network in Chiang Mai, Thailand, yesterday, December 19, 2010. Photo: Jai Wan Mai Burmese university football squad players (left to right) Bo Bo Tun, goalkeeper, Kyaw Kyaw Naing and captain Si Thu, pose at the Prince Royal’s College in Chiang Mai, Thailand, before a match against Malaysia on Friday, December 17, 2010 during the Asean University Games fixtures. The Burma side won 1-0. The Burma universities team is competing in eight separate sports at the games being held from December 15 to 23, against representatives from 10 Asean countries and East Timor. Photo: Mizzima WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up his bail papers outside the High Court in London, on December 16, 2010. The court rejected an appeal against him being released even under stringent conditions. His whistle-blower website began releasing late last month more than 251,000 leaked United States embassy cables, to uproar around the world. The cables have included references to Burma’s nuclear programme, Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew’s low opinion of junta leaders and Indian claims that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s time has ‘come and gone’. He was represented by prominent rights lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson QC (second, right), who has said: “Justice is the great game because it provides the opportunity of winning against the most powerful, and against the state itself.” Photo: AFP Singaporean Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew (second, right) stands in front of his wife’s casket on October 4, 2010, at the private wake at Sri Temasek, a British colonial bungalow within the Istana government complex. Kwa Geok Choo, 89, died after a long illness on October 2. According to a WikiLeaks release early this week, leaked cables quoted Lee as saying he had “given up on them [Burma’s military leaders] a decade ago”, going on to describe Burma’s generals as “dense” and “stupid”. Photo: AFP Burmese migrant children receive polio vaccine at a kindergarten in Takuapa, Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand, on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Last year, the Thai Health Ministry gave about 2.1 million Thai and 220,000 migrant children vaccines to prevent the infantile paralysis. Takuapa was one of the districts on Thailand’s west coast hardest hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Photo: Mizzima Burmese migrant children receive polio vaccine at a kindergarten in Takuapa, Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand, on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Last year, the Thai Health Ministry gave about 2.1 million Thai and 220,000 migrant children vaccines to prevent the infantile paralysis. Takuapa was one of the districts on Thailand’s west coast hardest hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Photo: Mizzima Participants inspect Chinese-made Kenbo motorcycles at the opening of the China Industry Expo in the Tatmadaw (military) Hall in the former Burmese capital of Rangoon on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. About 50 companies are exhibiting products that include transport equipment, electrical goods, construction materials, home appliances and hardware, at the four-day expo that finishes on Saturday. Photo: Mizzima Visitors inspect China-made motorcycles at the China Industry Expo in Tatmadaw (military) Hall in the former Burmese capital of Rangoon on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. About 50 companies are exhibiting products that include machinery, household goods and agricultural equipment at the four-day expo, which finishes on Saturday. Photo: Mizzima Shan Women’s Action Network (Swan) activist Charm Tong speaks at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in Bangkok on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at the launch of the Swan and Shan Sapawa Environmental Organisation report ‘High and Dry’, which details the impacts of the new Longjiang hydropower dam in Yunnan Province, China. The Shweili River, known as the Nam Mao in Shan and Longjiang in Chinese, flows through the north of Shan State as a major tributary of Burma’s Irrawaddy River. She said daily incomes of the 16,000-odd villagers along the river near Namkham Township were being drastically cut by the drops and surges in water levels since the dam was built. Thai activists also shared their experience of the downstream impacts of China’s Mekong dams. Photo: Mizzima A supporter of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi buys fund-raising postcards featuring Suu Kyi at National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon on Thursday, December 9, 2010. Suu Kyi was freed from seven years of house arrest on November 13. Photo: AFP The mother of a political prisoner presents flowers to Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a ceremony to mark UN Human Rights Day at National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon on Friday, December 10, 2010. More than 150 family members of political prisoners joined the event, however, more than 2,200 political prisoners remain languishing in Burmese, often far away from home. Photo: Mizzima Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Syi greets US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs Joseph Yun at her home on Rangoon’s University Avenue today, December 10, 2010. The US envoy reaffirmed that the United States remained open to direct dialogue with Burma’s military regime. Photo: Mizzima Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to crowds attending a ceremony to mark UN International Human Rights Day at National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon today, December 10, 2010. United States deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs Joseph Yun, who met Suu Kyi today, reaffirmed that the US remained open to dialogue with the Burmese military regime to achieve better human rights conditions and the release of all political prisoners. Photo: Mizzima Young Buddhist monks listen to a speech by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a ceremony to mark UN International Human Rights Day at National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon today, December 10, 2010. Photo: Mizzima National League for Democracy spokesman and lawyer Nyan Win speaks during a ceremony to mark UN International Human Rights Day at party headquarters in Rangoon today, December 10, 2010. Photo: Mizzima Refugees cross a field in front of temporary shelters near Mae Koe Kan village, western Thailand, on December 1, 2010. The people, mostly from Phalu village in eastern Karen State, south of the border town of Myawaddy, which is opposite Mae Sot, Thailand have been criss-crossing the frontier to avoid the ebb and flow of continuing clashes across Dooplaya District that have flared since late last month between the Burmese Army and a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army faction. Photo: Brennan O’Connor/Nomad Photos National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi donates robes to a Buddhist monk outside NLD headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on Wednesday, December 8, 2010. Both giver and receiver are said to earn karmic merit from such a donation. Sitaram Yechury, MP and politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), expresses solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi in her cause for democracy in Burma at a function in New Delhi yesterday, December 7, 2010, celebrating Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest last month. Photo: Mizzima Burmese activists sing for a gathering of about a hundred Burmese and Indian supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi on the lawn of the Press Club of India in New Delhi on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Those attending to express solidarity with Suu Kyi and celebrate her release from house arrest last month included Ram Jethmalani, MP and former Minister of Law and Justice; Dr. Barun Mukherji, MP from the All India Forward Bloc Party; Sitaram Yachuri, MP and politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, principal of Lady Shri Ram College for Women at the University of Dehli, where Suu Kyi studied in the 1960s. Photo: Mizzima Indian MP and former foreign minister Shashi Tharoor expresses solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi in her cause for democracy in Burma at a function in New Delhi yesterday, December 7, 2010, held to celebrate Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest last month. Photo: Mizzima Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks her youngest son Kim Aris, aka Htein Lin, to his departure gate at Rangoon International Airport after an eventful two-week stay in Burma that followed his mother’s release from house arrest, on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Prior to the visit, they had not seen each for about a decade. Photo: Mizzima Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her youngest son Kim Aris, aka Htein Lin, pose for a photo before his departure after an eventful two weeks in Burma that followed Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest, at Rangoon International Airport on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Photo: Mizzima Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her youngest son Kim Aris, aka Htein Lin, pose for a photo before his departure after an eventful two weeks in Burma that followed Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest, at Rangoon International Airport on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Photo: Mizzima Mae Tao Clinic medics provide aid to some of the 500-odd refugees at a temporary shelter in a field in Mae Koe Kan village, western Thailand, on Wednesday, December 1, 2010. The people, mostly from Phalu village, south of the border town of Myawaddy, fled continuing clashes in eastern Karen State that flared last weekend between the Burmese Army and a Democratic Buddhist Karen Army faction. Brennan O’Connor/Nomad Photos National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi comforts attendees at a ceremony to mark UN World Aids Day (December 1) at NLD head office in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on Thursday, December 2, 2010. People living with HIV also attended the ceremony at which cultural performances including a poetry recital were held. World Aids Day, observed since 1988, is dedicated to raising awareness of the Aids pandemic and to dispel prejudices against those living with the virus. Photo: Mizzima An activist holds a placard bearing the message ‘I want national reconciliation’ in front of National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon on Wednesday, 1 December 2010, before a ceremony for the 90th anniversary of National Day. The day marks the student strike against the British colonial administration’s Rangoon University Act in 1920, the start of the resistance movement that led to independence from British rule. All three nationwide strikes against the British began at the university. Photo: Mizzima Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an address in honour of Burma’s National Day at the National League for Democracy headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on December 1, 2010. She called for the ruling military junta to co-operate in national reconciliation for the country’s peace and security. Photo: Mizzima

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