{rokbox album=|May10| title=|UN special envoy on human rights Tomas Ojea Quintana and Aung San Suu Kyi shake hands in Rangoon on Wednesday, August 24. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/mizzima-pic-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Aung San Suu Kyi, left, and Burmese President Thein Sein during their first-ever meeting on Friday in Naypyitaw, the capital. Photo: MRTV|}images/2011/april-june/mrtv-pic-3.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|War victims or refugees in middle Shan state, Burma. Photo: SHRF|}images/2011/april-june/shan-pic-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rising water reaches the Pegu (Bago) train station on Thursday, August 11, 2011. The town has been hit by the worst flooding in 30 years, and several thousand people have fled their homes. Pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to travel to the troubled town on Sunday. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/m-photo1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rising water reaches the Pegu (Bago) train station on Thursday, August 11, 2011. The town has been hit by the worst flooding in 30 years, and several thousand people have fled their homes. Pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled to travel to the troubled town on Sunday. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/m-photo2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|NLD leaders mark the 1988 demonstration anniversary :: Aung San Suu Kyi at a robe offering ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the 8888 uprising on August 8, 2011. Monday. The ceremony at Thadu Pariraytti monastery in Kyimyindine Township was attended by people from various political parties. The nationwide uprising called for democracy and challenged the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) led by the late dictator Ne Win. The uprising was brutally suppressed by the army and hundreds of demonstrators died and were imprisoned. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/nld-leaders-celebrate-88-demonstration-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|More than 700 student-monks at Sukha Tite (Sukha Monastery) Buddhist University in Mandalay can access an Internet Web site called 'Dhamma Web Portal' to hear Buddhist sermons. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/M-Photo1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Representatives from five ethnic parties: the Chin National Party, All Mon Region Democracy Party, Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party, Shan Nationalities Democratic Party aka White Tiger Party and Rakhine Nationalities Development Party in front of the White Tiger Party office in Rangoon after a meeting on Wednesday, August 3, 2011. The five parties urged the central government to form a peacemaking committee in ethnic areas. Photo: NBF|}images/2011/april-june/M-photo2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Aung Kyi was assigned to be the 'relations' minster under retired Senior-General Than Shwe, and he and pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi have met several times in the past and are said to have a good relationship. Photo:Mizzima.|}images/2011/april-june/Pic2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Floods generated by the incessant torrential rains in the last weeks in Arakan State on the western coast of Burma. Photo: Narinjara |}images/2011/april-june/Pic3.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Protest against over India government supplying arms and ammunition in 52 military trucks to the world’s most notorious Burmese military regime on 22 July in New Delhi. Photo: Khonumthung News.|}images/2011/april-june/Demon.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Protest against over India government supplying arms and ammunition in 52 military trucks to the world’s most notorious Burmese military regime on 22 July in New Delhi. Photo: Khonumthung News.|}images/2011/april-june/Demon4.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Over 200 Kachin refugees from Laiza temporary camps were moved to a new Je Yang Hka camp on July 19. Photo: KNG|}images/2011/april-june/kachin_refugee_jeyanghka.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A line of Burmese military trucks believed to be carrying weapons and ammunition is seen before entering Burma from China at the border gate of Jiegao in Yunnan Province on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Observers said that about 300 military trucks have passed through the area in the past three days. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/army-truck-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Firemen spray water on a fire in a three-story building where a 77-year-old man lost his life in Latha Township in Rangoon on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/fire-in-latha-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Surrounded by her NLD security escort, Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the Ananda Phaya temple in Bagan on the second day of her four-day tour of the ancient temple complex. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/suu-kyi-leaves-ananda-phaya.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Suu Kyi arrives a the Ma Nu Har temple in Bagan, where she is welcomed by a crowd of area residents, who have greeted her warmly at every stage of her tour of the Bagan temple complex. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/suu-kyi-arrives-ma-nu-har.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her youngest son Htein Lin aka Kim Aris of Britain paid homage to Buddha at the Arnanda Pagoda in the Bagan temple complex on Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Suu Kyi is on the second day of a four-day personal pilgrimage. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/suu-kyi-and-son-at-arnanda-pagoda.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Military officers investigate after a bomb explosion destroyed a parked car in front of the Zaygyo Hotel in Mandalay on Friday, June 24, 2011. At least one person was injured in the blast. Photo: Sytmhone|}images/2011/april-june/bomb-exploaded-mandalay-1.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese community in Indian capital New Delhi Protests against Civil War in Kachin State Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, India, June 24, 2011 Photo: KNG|}images/2011/april-june/Kachin_Protest_Delhi0.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese community in Indian capital New Delhi Protests against Civil War in Kachin State Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, India, June 24, 2011 Photo: KNG|}images/2011/april-june/Kachin_Protest_Delhi6.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Over 2500 Chin refugees in New Delhi, India demonstrated outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 21st 60th anniversary of World Refugee Day. Photo: Khonumthung|}images/2011/april-june/Rally-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Over 2500 Chin refugees in New Delhi, India demonstrated outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on 21st 60th anniversary of World Refugee Day. Photo: Khonumthung|}images/2011/april-june/Rally3.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|60th anniversary of World Refugee Day held at Mae La Nursery School (refugee camp) on 20 June 2011. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/refugee.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|60th anniversary of World Refugee Day held at Mae La Nursery School (refugee camp) on 20 June 2011. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/refugee1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Refugees who recently arrived in one of six camps in the KIO capital Laiza because of fighting between KIA and Burmese military. Photo: KNG|}images/2011/april-june/kachin_idp_china_border.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Over 10,000 Kachin refugees fled to the China border with the commencement of civil war over the last three days between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burmese troops in Northern Burma. Photo: KNG|}images/2011/april-june/kachin_refugee_laiza2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|KIA troops are engaged in the most fierce fighting with Burmese forces in many months, with heavy causalities on the Burmese side, according to KIA sources. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/kio-army-stand.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Aung Tin Win's storefront home in Three Pagodas Pass after it was hit by RPG fire. Photo: IMNA|}images/2011/april-june/ttp_fighting_bur.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Daw Su meeting SNLD leader wives: Daw Way Way Lwin (Mrs Hkun Tun Oo), Nang Kham Awng (Mrs Sai Hla Aung) and Nang Khin Ohn Tint (Mrs Sai Nyunt Lwin) : Shan|}images/2011/april-june/dawsu_met_snld.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|American sculptor Jim McNalis with his bust of Zarganar, the Burmese comedian who has been imprisoned for his humanitarian work during Cyclone Nargis. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/zarganar-sculpture-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|34 Karen and Rakhine eleased revolutionaries who were imprisoned in India for more than 13 years Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/IMG_1177.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) party held a song contest to mark the 66th birthday of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at NLD headquarters in Bahan Township in Rangoon on Thursday, June 10, 2011. Suu Kyi's birthday is on June 19. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/assk-66th-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese fishermen who were rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy in March enter a meeting room in the Myanmar Fishery Federation in Rangoon on Thursday, June 9. The families of missing fishermen were given a relief donation of 150,000 kyat (about US$ 175). An estimated 470 fishermen were missing. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/burmese-fishermen-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Mae La nursery school Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/MaeLa-nursery-school.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The government troops are investigating in Three Pagodas Pass after the bomb attacked in the first week of June 2011. Photo: IMNA|}images/2011/april-june/ttp_bonb_blast.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|John Mc Cane visited Mae Tao Clinic, which is being supervised by Dr. Cynthia Maung in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand on 31 May. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/SAM_1651.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|John Mc Cane visited Mae Tao Clinic, which is being supervised by Dr. Cynthia Maung in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand on 31 May. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/SAM_1659.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|John Mc Cane visited Mae Tao Clinic, which is being supervised by Dr. Cynthia Maung in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand on 31 May. Photo: KIC|}images/2011/april-june/SAM_1666.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Children at the NLD HIV center presented US Sen. John McCain with flowers. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/john-mc-cain-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|US Sen. John McCain and Phyu Phyu Thin, who is the in charge of the center on Thursday morning, May 2, 2011. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/april-june/john-mc-cain-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|New academic year begins: Schools across Burma began a new academic year (2011-12) on June 1. Students and relatives pick up students at High School No. 13 in Mandalay. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/new-academic-year.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|One of the most admire Temples (Mahamuni) by Arakan people which is controlled by military Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Mahamuni.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The current condition of a road Arakan to Yangon highway under all development project in inside Burma Photo: Narinjara|}images/2011/april-june/Arakan-to-Yangon-highway_.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Students attending at a primary school classroom in Karenni state Photo: Kantarawaddy Time|}images/2011/april-june/Students.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Thirty-one Arakanese and Karen freedom fighters pose for a photograph on Thursday, May 19, just before they were released from detention in India. They were released after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recognized them as refugees in April. The remaining three freedom fighters will be transferred to Port Blair in Adaman Islands for further interrogation. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/released-freedom-fighters-34-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Yun and Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a press conference at Suu Kyi’s lakeside home in Rangoon on Thursday, May 19. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/assk-and-joseph-yun.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A fire in a high-rise building that houses shops and apartments at Shwe Phyu Plaze broke out in Mandalay on Wednesday, May 18, but was quickly extinguished. The plaza is opposite Yadanarpon Diamond Plaza, where a large fire caused significant damage in 2008. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/fire-in-mandalay.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The traffic police of Hakha, city of Chin state, Burma confiscated a motorcycle because the owner did not wear a helmet. Photo: Khonumthung|}images/2011/april-june/Hakha-Town.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Newly released prisoners, relatives, friends and journalists gather in front of Insein Prison in Rangoon on Tuesday, May 17. More than 14,600 prisoners will be released under an order by the government to reduce all prison sentences by one year. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/release-prisoners2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A woman holds a newborn baby as she waits for the release of prisoners in front of Insein Prison in Rangoon. The new government has commuted the sentence of all prisoners by one year, and they are scheduled to be released on Tuesday, May 17. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/release-prisoners3.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and UN special envoy to Burma Vijay Nambiar pose after a two-hour meeting in Suu Kyi’s home in Rangoon on Thursday, May 12. His three-day visit as special envoy is the first by a UN high-ranking official under Burma’s new government led by President Thein Sein. During the visit, he urged the new government to make political changes to achieve national reconciliation. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/dasskandmr.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Dr. Tin Tun Oo, left, the CEO of the Myanmar Times, and the Australian cofounder Ross Dunkley outside the Kamayut Township Court in Rangoon on Thursday, May 12. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/dankelay3.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rangoon Region Education Minister Nyan Tun Oo, left, and Rangoon Region Administration Office Chief Khin Maung Tun at the first press conference conducted by the Rangoon Region Assembly on Tuesday, May 10. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/first-press-conference-rangoon-region-assembly1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Kyi mingles with the crowd at NLD headquarters following a ceremony to give money to help support the families of political prisoners in Burma on Tuesday, May 10. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/dasskyi.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A senior Buddhist monk delivers a talk on the 13th anniversary of the Brahmaso Charity Group in Mandalay on Saturday, May 7. The charity group provides free funeral services and health services to people in need. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/Brahmaso.jpg{/rokbox}{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Mizoram authority driven out 40 people of Burmese citizens from Mizoram state to Indo-Myanmar border on 30 April at 4 pm by this truck. There are 15 women and 25 men of Chin who were pushed back to Indo-Myanmar border. Photo: Khonumthung|}images/2011/april-june/indo-myanmar.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A child walks past the notorious Insein Prison in Rangoon on Thursday, May 5. Rumours are circulating that a general amnesty would be granted to prisoners, including political prisoners. Journalists waited at the prison, but no prisoners were released. Extra police guards were posted around the prison. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/notorious-insein-prison.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burma’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Maung Myint, center, and diplomats from the EU gather before a dinner party to mark Europe Day (on May 9) at the Chatirum Hotel in Rangoon on Tuesday, May 3. National Democratic Force leader Dr. Than Nyein, Democratic Party (Myanmar) chairman Thu Wai and developmental adviser Dr. Khin Zaw Win also attended the dinner. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/dinner-to-mark-europe-day1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Nargis victims still struggle to restart their lives :: It's three years after Cyclone Nargis and some cyclone survivors have resettled on land owned by the municipality near Kyonedaminn village in Irrawaddy Region because they are afraid more cyclones will occur. The municipality has told the squatters to move from the land. Photos: Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/3years-after-cyclone-nargis1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Monastery orphanage needs donors and teachers :: Orphans in Aung Zeya Min Monastery School in Hlaingtharyar Township in Rangoon gather at a communal table on Saturday, April 30, 2011. More than 350 orphans including about 200 Nargis victims live in the monastery operated by Abbot Bhaddanta Zeya Nanda with the help of private donors. About three baskets (3.34 bushels) of rice are consumed each day. Photo:Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/aung-zeya-min-monastery-orphanage1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Truck overturns in Chin state because of bad roads Photo:Mizzima|}images/2011/april-june/truck-overturned-chin5.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rangoon Rakhaing Thungram 2011. People are enjoying during the festival Photo:Narinjara |}images/2011/april-june/Yangon-Rakhinr-Thangran-2011-pic1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A changing of the colors: Rangoon City Hall has been repainted white. In early April, the historical structure was renovated and painted yellow. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/April/rangoon-city-hall-repainted-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Retail booths called ‘Media Corners’ (in background) are being built by the Myanmar Writers and Journalists Association in six townships in Rangoon. The media corners will sell newspapers, magazines, books, phone cards and computer accessories. Photo: Mizzima |}images/2011/April/rangoon-city-hall-repainted-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Refugee line up for water at supply station in Lada refugee camp Photo: Kaladan Press |}images/2011/April/camp-03_q.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Workmen are now renovating Rangoon City Hall. Rangoon Regional Municipal Minister Hla Myint, a retired |}images/2011/April/renovating-rangoon-city-hall-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The first issue of The Myawaddy Daily, a daily newspaper published by the army, hit the streets in Rangoon on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Media observers say more newspapers and other media are likely to appear under the new government formed in March. Photo: Mizzima|}images/2011/April/myawaddy-daily-newspaper.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|5.8-magnitude Earthquake in China's SW Yunnan, Yingjiang County, Yunnan province Photo: Kachin News Group|}images/2011/april-june/china-yingjiang-quake4.jpg{/rokbox}
