BURMA BULLETIN
Issue 108 - December 2015

KEY STORY: MAKE WAY FOR THE NLD
• Aung San Suu Kyi meets heads of state, former dicator
• NLD vows reconciliation in forming government
• Bills protect Thein Sein, lessen NLD authority
INSIDE BURMA
• Parliament approves military budget, more mining, faces corrupt judiciary
• Non-signatory EAOs, women, civil society criticize political dialogue framework
• NLD courts ethnic bloc
• Civil war continues despite NCA
• IDPs face health and food crisis, path home blocked
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Authorities crackdown on expression, assembly
• Freedom of expression worsened, last two years
DISPLACEMENT
• ASEAN leaders confront Rohingya refugee crisis
ECONOMY
• Jade mines under fire with two more landslides
• Ease in US sanctions good for cronies
• Burma 2nd in Climate Risk Index
• Abuse, debt, poverty revealed in garment industry
• Burma opium production stable for 3 years
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