ICRC EXPECTS TO SEE ASSK AND OTHER DETAINED NLD

C O N F I D E N T I A L RANGOON 000713 SIPDIS STATE FOR EAP CDR USPACOM FOR FPA E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/16/2013 TAGS: PGOV PINS PHUM PREL BM ASSK NLD SUBJECT: ICRC EXPECTS TO SEE ASSK AND OTHER DETAINED NLD LEADERS REF: RANGOON 696 Classified By: COM Carmen Martinez. Reason: 1.5 (d). ¶1. (C) Summary: ICRC expects to visit Aung San Suu Kyi and the other detained NLD leaders within the next few days. Meanwhile, the universities have reopened and Rangoon remains quiet. End Summary. ICRC To See ASSK and Other NLD Leaders ¶2. (C) ICRC officers have advised us that ICRC has been given permission to see Aung San Suu Kyi and the other NLD leaders who were detained following the May 30 ambush in Depeyin. ICRC officials are to meet with GOB representatives today or tommorow to work out the modalities for the visits, which will probably take place during the weekend of June 21 and 22. Detainees Released ¶3. (U) In a diplomatic note dated June 13, the GOB said that it had released 46 persons who had been detained in connection with the May 30 attack in Depeyin. Twenty-five people were released on June 11; 21 on June 12. Apparently, however, none of the persons released were picked up at the scene of the attack. From information we have been able to gather, all appear to have been detained after the event as the GOB searched for signs of a conspiracy. Universities Open; Rangoon Quiet ¶4. (C) Universities and secondary schools reopened throughout Burma on June 16. Thus far, the country remains quiet. With the exception of a very few small and isolated demonstrations, the public has not taken to the streets to protest the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi or the closure of the NLD offices. Some preliminary security arrangements have been put in place in Rangoon (e.g.; some additional barbed wire at Rangoon's city hall and a few more MI surveillance units on the street),but there are no signs yet that the government anticipates any serious trouble. Martinez