Burma’s military junta has extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by another year despite a call for her release by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate has spent 10 of the past 16 years in jail. The military junta announced its decision on May 27 — exactly 16 years after Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party won 82 percent of the vote in a general election. But the military refused to allow the party to take power. The international community, including the Association of South East Asian Nations, denounced the Burmese government’s decision.

• In Kawthoolei, of the Karen National Union: “That is very senseless from the very beginning, a senseless act of SPDC. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is just a woman without any weapon and all she asks for is just a dialogue, dialogue for democracy, dialogue to sort out Burma problems and to move forward for a genuine democracy.”