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