11.   For one day on Friday, Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi forged a temporary truce with the council of generals who rule her country.

12.   He was a friend of Burmese democracy activist and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

13.   In July, members of the European Parliament showed a smuggled videotape in which Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for international sanctions.

14.   It has been criticized by Burmese democracy activists and foreign observers as a stage-managed affair designed to further military rule.

15.   The letter said the Tokyo demonstrators taped their mouths shut to dramatize what it called the use of force to silence Burmese democracy.

16.   The Scandinavian country has been very sympathetic to the Burmese democracy movement, and is host to a Burmese pro-democracy shortwave radio station.

17.   He also reiterated US support for Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate released last July from six years under house arrest.

18.   Security forces fired warning shots in central Phnom Penh to stop a banned protest by around two dozen supporters of the Burmese democracy movement which left two policemen injured.