BURMA BULLETIN
ISSUE 25 – JANUARY 2009

KEY STORY
• Rohingya boat people
INSIDE BURMA
• Ethnic groups boycott elections
• SPDC for Obama?
• SPDC Army in disarray
• Trucks from China
• Child mortality
• HIV/AIDS patients
• Five million need food
• Nargis survivors struggling
• Drug smuggling/trafficking
HUMAN RIGHTS
• Custodial deaths
• Detention conditions
• Arrests
• Prison sentences
• Forced labor
INTERNATIONAL
• UNGA resolution
• Abhisit’s “flexible engagement”
ECONOMY
• Sanctions update
• The squeeze is on
OTHER BURMA NEWS
REPORTS