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2010 will mark the first election in Burma for two decades. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, won those held in 1990 by a land slide. The result was never recognised by the Burmese regime and Aung San Suu Kyi has been more or less detained ever since.

Meeting with the guerrilla leader Nerdah Mya and writer Pascal Khoo Thwe.

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Partners Relief & Development (Partners) and Free Burma Rangers (FBR) announce a first comprehensive report “Displaced Childhoods” documenting the experiences of internally displaced children against the backdrop of Burma’s obligations under domestic and international law. Report is based on data collected in Burma and on its borderlands for the last 14 years by Partners and FBR.

China has arrested two Tibetan students of Northwest National Minorities’ University in Lanzhou on 6 April 2010. Tashi Rabten (pen name – Te’urang) and Druklo (pen name –Shokjang) were arrested after around 16 officials from the local Public Security Bureau arrived in the university hostel and ransacked students’ rooms.

Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), says it will not take part in the country’s first polls in two decades. Detained NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi has already earlier rejected her party’s participation in the polls.

Norwegian Helsinki Committee in cooperation with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs organized a seminar in which Russia’s harsh policies pursued during continuous anti-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus region were analyzed and discussed by human rights defenders and experts on 23 March 2010.

The Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities (MDREN) released a document, signed also by Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party analyzing Burma’s upcoming 2010 election and giving possible solutions. According to it, election will not bring democracy, security, or national reconciliation to the country. The reason is undemocratic 2008 Constitution.

On the Day of Solidarity in the Republic of Belarus, 16 March 2010, searches were carried out in the offices of the web-site charter97.org and in the office of the independent newspaper “Narodnaya Volya”. The journalist Natalya Radzina was beaten during the raid.

A Burmese-born 41-year-old US citizen, political activist, who was sentenced in February 2010 to three years in prison with hard labour, has been released on 18 March 2010 by a Rangoon court.