{rokbox album=|May10| title=|Many cultural heritages have been destroyed as military authorities have bulldozed a path for constructing a railroad through a major archaeological zone in Mrauk U, an ancient city in western Burma's Arakan State. (Photo-Narinjara).|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/Mrauk-U-Damages-photo-13.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her youngest son Kim Aris, aka Htein Lin, prepare to pay homage to Buddha with flowers at Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon early on Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Suu Kyi, reunited with her son after a decade the day before, and other visitors exchanged friendly greetings at the 2,500-year-old landmark in the centre of the former Burmese capital. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/daw-aung-s-suu-kyi-and-son2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets her youngest son Kim Aris, aka Htein Lin, for the first time in a decade just after he walked through the arrivals gate at Rangoon International Airport on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Junta officials in Bangkok made Aris wait two weeks for a visa that normally takes two or three days to obtain. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/Dsskson.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Aung San Suu Kyi (third left) leaves Rangoon Division High Court today, 16th November 2010, after giving testimony in a lawsuit being brought by her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD) against its legal dissolution. The case is expected to continue over coming weeks. The NLD won over 80% of seats in Burma's last general elections held in 1990, the results of which were never honoured by the military regime. The NLD was dissolved by the Burmese military in early 2010 after they decided to boycott the recent 2010 elections. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/assk_high_court.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|NLD general secretary Aung San Suu Kyi addresses a crowd of about 40,000 people outside National League for Democracy headquarters in Bahan Township, Rangoon, a day after her release from house arrest. It was her first organised public speech in seven years. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/40004.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|At her first public appearance upon release from house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi greets thousands of cheering, chanting, happy supporters in front of her home on University Avenue in Rangoon, this evening, November 13, 2010. She told the jubilant crowd that she would meet them at the National League for Democracy headquarters at noon tomorrow (November 14, 2010). Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/suu-kyi-nov-13-1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Supporters of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi gather outside her National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon on Friday November 12, 2010, wearing T-shirts and bearing banners with her portrait. Reports emerged that officials said she would be released this afternoon, a day before her 18-month house-arrest sentence was to be lifted. Key supporters are also waiting outside her lakeside home in the city. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/supporters-standing2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A procession of RNDP in Sittwe on 9 November after the party has won 35 seats across Arakan state, from a total of 44 candidates that represented the party in the election. (Photo-Narinjara).|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/RNDP-won-rally-Sittwe1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese returnee refugees walk towards the Thai-Burmese Friendship Bridge towards Myawaddy from Mae Sot, Thailand on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, where they were being provided with temporary shelter and food. Up to 20,000 people fled across the Moei River when heavy fighting broke out a day earlier between a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army splinter group and the Burmese Army, which resulted in casualties on both sides of the border. Reports from Myawaddy town say the splinter group has withdrawn from the town. Fighting is however continuing at Three Pagodas Pass, seized late on Monday night by the rebel DKBA faction. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/returning-refugees-home1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The photo are the people who crossed the Moei river. (Photo- KIC)|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/DSC09779.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Refugees rest near temporary shelters in Mae Sot, Thailand, after fleeing clashes between junta troops and a breakaway faction of the junta-aligned Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) in Myawaddy, on the Burmese side of the Moei River, on Monday, November 8, 2010. More than 10,000 Burmese from Karen State have fled to Mae Sot, social organisations including the UN refugee body, the UNHCR, said. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/refugee-run-thai.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Vote counting is carried out today at a polling booth in Dagon Township, Rangoon, in front of foreign diplomats and local journalists. Photo Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/counting-vote-s.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Young voters take time off work to vote at a polling station number 1 inside U Ba Lwin Hall of Myoma State High School No. 2, in Pyi East Ward, Dagon Township, Rangoon. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/youngvoters.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|N'mawk (Momauk) Polling Station :: Election Day in N'mawk (Momauk) Polling Station, Bhamo District, Kachin State, Nov. 7, 2010 Photo: Kachin News Group.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/d6efdb0a.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Burmese people in New Delhi protest Burma Election :: Burmese people protest Burma Election, Nov. 6-7, 2010, Jantar Mantar Park, New Delhi India. Photo by Kachin News Group.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/New_Delhi_1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A Union Solidarity and Development Party absentee ballot form bears a tick as a ‘hint’ to vote for the party amid specific allegations by the Democratic Party (Myanmar) that USDP members in Mingalar Taungnyunt Township, Rangoon Division, had gone door-to-door trying to rig advance voting. Photo: Mizzima.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/usdp-advance-vote.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|National Democratic Force (NDF) members use a rather different method of transport recently to canvass for votes in Thanlyin Township, Rangoon Division. The junta’s election, which will bring the controversial 2008 constitution into effect, has been called a sham designed as a bid to legitimise the power of Burma’s dictatorial military regime. For that reason, the main opposition party from which the NDF split, the National League for Democracy, has decided to boycott the polls. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/NDFmelsoa.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Women from Hokyin village in Kengtung, a town in the eastern part of Shan State, recently scan a pamphlet distributed by the National Democratic Force party, which split from the National League for Democracy party. The village is situated at about 3,500 feet (1,067 metres) above sea level and its residents lacked information about the election to be held on Sunday. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/letcomesarsong1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Views of some area of Kyauk Pru after cyclone Giri lashed the Arakan coast on 22 October.|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/after-Cyclone-Giri-lashes-Arakan-Coast-Kuauk-Pru-photo-16.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Views of some area of Kyauk Pru after cyclone Giri lashed the Arakan coast on 22 October. (Photo-Narinjara)|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/Myanmar-after-Cyclone-Giri-lashes-Arakan-Coast-in-Kuauk-Pru.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) opened its free Phyo Saydanar clinic in Bahan Township, Rangoon, on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, as Burma’s first elections in 20 years draw near. The party has a rich campaign war chest and has been accused unethical practices and of having a grossly unfair advantage over rivals with its lavish spending on public projects and offers of cheap loans to farmers for votes. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/subhostipal.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|fishingboat in Teknaf (Photo-Kaladan)|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/fishingboat-in-Teknaf.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|National A trishaw driver in North Okkalapa Township inspects a campaign leaflet with information about National Democratic Force (NDF) party candidates, in Rangoon on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The party was formed by former members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) who chose to contest the national polls on November 7, which the NLD had earlier denounced as unfair and unjust. The NDF use of the bamboo hat, the traditional symbol of the NLD, created great controversy. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/NDFparty3.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|National Democratic Force leader Khin Maung Swe (centre, brown jacket) officiates at the opening of a party office in the city of Pegu, 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of the former Burmese capital of Rangoon, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/NDF-OFFICEOPEN1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|A woman votes in a trial run of booth facilities at a polling station in Latha Township, western Rangoon, on Friday, October 1, 2010. The dry run was part of preparations 37 days ahead of Burma’s first national elections in two decades. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/mellpone.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|The traffic canal called Kin Chaung by local people in Ponna Kyunt Township was constructed by Arakanese Kings many years ago in order to allow quick and easy travel by boat between the Kaladan and Mayu Rivers. The military has now blocked the canal with an embankment for a new rail route, leaving residents unable to travel between the Kaladan and Mayu. (Photo-Narinjara)|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/mayu-kaladan-river-block-pic-2.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Rangoon Command chief Brigadier-General Tun Than (first left), Bureau of Special Operation Five chief General Tin Ngwe (centre), and tycoon Zaw Zaw (first right) attend the opening ceremony of Zaw Zaw’s private Irrawaddy Bank on Thursday, September 16, 2010. The international pariahs whose companies and families are also subject to US sanctions and travel bans for their close ties to Burma’s repressive military junta – Zaw Zaw (who owns Max Myanmar), Tay Za, Chit Khaing and Nay Aung – obtained permits in May to run the Irrawaddy, Asia Green, Shay Saung and Amaya banks respectively. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/Irrawaddy-Bank-Open1.jpg{/rokbox} {rokbox album=|May10| title=|Relatives of two youths aged around 20 years old, shot dead by officers from the Burmese Army’s Brigade 77 during a violent clash, wait to collect their bodies at the back gate of Pegu Township Hospital yesterday afternoon, September 5. The youths were unarmed. Photo: Mizzima|}/files/images/2010/SepDec/backdoorhospital.jpg{/rokbox}

BNI Photos - May-August 2010