June 01 2003

- United Nations special envoy to Burma, Razali Ismail, said his upcoming visit to Rangoon would go ahead despite the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- The French government called on ruling junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained in a crackdown on her pro-democracy party.
- The British government urged ruling junta to release immediately opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

June 02 2003

- The Australian government called on to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Thailand's prime minister said that "the whole world'' is concerned about the detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and that the country's military government would have to act to bring the situation ``back to normal.''
- Thailand-based government in exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), said it had learned that up to 70 people may have been killed during the weekend clashes.
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was following developments with concern.
- Japan urged the government of Burma to take a moderate response and that the situation will quickly be restored to normal.

June 03 2003

- United States President George W Bush said he is "deeply concerned" about the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and the detention of members of Ms Suu Kyi's political party, as well as reports that military authorities had closed her party headquarters in Rangoon.

June 04 2003

- Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, took to the Senate floor to call on the United States to take steps aimed at further isolating the military government in Rangoon.
- The International Red Cross asked to see pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several of her colleagues.
- U Tin Oo family received a letter in his handwriting asking for some prescription medicine but were not told any details of his condition.

June 05 2003

- U.S Lawmakers in both the House of Representatives and Senate introduced bills that would ban all imports from Burma, freeze U.S.-held assets and bar Burmese government officials from traveling to the United States.
- Officials of the US embassy in Rangoon found that there was a premeditated ambush on Aung San Suu Kyi's motorcade and conducted by government-affiliated thugs.

June 06 2003

- U.N. special envoy to Burma Razali Ismail flew into the capital to persuade the junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Philippines invited Burma's amabassador to the foreign department to clarify reports that opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi is being detained.

June 07 2003

- The United States added more members of Burma's military government to its visa blacklist and threatened Burma's military government with more U.S. sanctions if it does not release Aung San Suu Kyi.

June 08 2003

- The International Labour Organization condemned the detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the military government.

June 10 2003

- Razali Ismail was allowed to visit the detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi for 30 minutes at the end of a five-day visit to Rangoon.
- A leading U.S. Senator John McCain criticized Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries for their failure to bring adequate pressure on Burma's military government.
- The U.S. government demanded a United Nations envoy in Burma must be allowed to see detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Razali Ismail confirmed Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is in good spirits and showed no signs of injuries she was reported to have sustained in a clash 11 days ago with government supporters in northern Burma.
- U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in a statement that Annan "remains seriously concerned" by Suu Kyi's continued detention.

June 11 2003

- U.S. President George W Bush and visiting Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra demanded Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate release in Washington.
- Australia suspended human rights talks with Myanmar but ruled out imposing sanctions.
- The US Senate approved a bill banning all imports from Burma.

June 12 2003

- US Secretary of State Colin Powell commented in article published in the Asian Wall Street Journal said that his administration agreed with members of the U.S. Congress... that the time has come to turn up the pressure on the SPDC which was referred as the ''thugs who run the Burmese government.'.
- China indicated that detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is an internal affair between the Myanmar government and its opposition.
- - The International Relations Committee of the US House of Representatives unanimously approved legislation to expand existing US trade and economic sanctions against the country.

June 13 2003

- Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi underlined Tokyo's demand for an immediate release of pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in talks with Foreign Minister Win Aung by telephone.

June 14 2003

- U.N. special envoy Razali Ismail said that he believed further mediation coupled with international pressure could win release of detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and lead to a political settlement between the opponents and the government.
- Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed that Junta asked him to assure US President George W. Bush it would push ahead with national reconciliation.

June 15 2003

- Foreign Minister Win Aung said the events surrounding the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi were very unfortunate and his government is protecting her from a possible assassination attempt.
- The Philippine foreign minister said arrest of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi are sullying the reputation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

June 17 2003

- Asean urged country's military rulers to free detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and move towards democracy.
- U.S dismissed as "kind of ridiculous" the notion advanced by Burmese authorities that Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained for her own protection.

June 18 2003

- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged Southeast Asian nations to step up pressure on country's military government to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Canada’s foreign minister said his country also might take tougher measures against Burma.
- Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer rejected calls by US Secretary of State Colin Powell for a tougher international and regional response to force political change in Burma.
- International Buddhist Associations requested State Sangha Maha Nayaka Sayadaws to undertake whatever action necessary to effect changes in the country on behalf of the Sasana and the people of Burma.

June 19 2003

- Country's pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 58th birthday in detention.
- Britain's Foreign Office said pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was being held under her country's "most draconian" law at Insein Jail near the capital, where she is confined to a "two-room hut,".
- The US Senate's 14 women members sent birthday greetings to democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, expressing support for the detained activist, as well as the people of Burma.
- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell sent birthday greetings, but the U.S. embassy said it was unable to deliver them.
- The United States Council on Foreign Relations called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to condemn the democracy crackdown by country's military regime.

June 20 2003

- European Union leaders condemned Burma , expressing "grave concern" over developments in the country and calling on the Burmese authorities "immediately to release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi" and other members of the National League for Democracy.

June 21 2003

- Britain's Foreign Office minister Mike O’Brien summoned the country's Ambassador, Kyaw Win, to express the British government’s grave concern at the continued detention of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Philippine President Gloria Arroyo said that she prayed that Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would soon be released from government custody.

June 22 2003

- An International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) team begun a tour of northern Burma to visit pro-democracy supporters rounded up in the wake of violent clashes last month.
- Amnesty International expressed its concerns at the news that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in Insein Prison under the 1975 State Protection Law, Section 10(a).

June 23 2003

- UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being kept in "deplorable" conditions and should be released immediately.
- Military intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt told Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano Aung San Suu Kyi is not being held at the infamous Insein prison as stated by the British government.

June 24 2003

- Malaysia's leader Mahathir repeated his call for Burma's military government to immediately release detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- The Red Cross said that U Tin Oo, reported missing after a May 30 clash between supporters of the military government and political activists, was in good health.
- The European Union (EU) welcomed Japan's recent calls on Burma's ruling junta to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

June 25 2003

- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote in the Financial Times newspaper to release the country's pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, calling its military rulers brutal, corrupt and incompetent.
- Japan, country's largest donor, froze all financial aid to the country to punish its military government for detaining pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- The United States prepared to freeze the assets of members of Burma's ruling military junta and ban remittances sent by immigrants from that country back home.
- U.N. special envoy to Burma Razali Ismail told reporters in Tokyo that the U.N. Secretary General is growing "increasingly alarmed" about Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in custody since May 30.
- France announced that it had invited detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the Bastille Day reception at its embassy in Rangoon on July 14.
- The French foreign ministry summoned Burma's ambassador in Paris for the second time this month, calling for detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be freed "without delay".
- Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra made a new call for Burma to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, warning that the delay in doing so was frustrating the region.

June 26 2003

- Japan asked Burma to allow its ambassador there to meet pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as international outrage over her detention grows.
- The Red Cross said that U Tin Oo, reported missing after a May 30 clash between supporters of the military government and political activists, was in good health.
- The European Union (EU) welcomed Japan's recent calls on Burma's ruling junta to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- China said Burma's detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was its own business and Beijing opposed pressure from other countries against the ruling military junta.
- Thai police have detained 11 Burmese activists in western Bangkok.

June 27 2003

- Malaysia's foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar told a news conference that the credibility of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations had been damaged by Aung San Suu Kyi's detention.
- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra accused the United Nations' refugee agency of violating Thai sovereignty by granting refugee status to Burmese exiles without the government's permission.

June 30 2003

- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi marked one month in detention.
- Thailand police threatened to take action against Burmese dissidents reported to be planning a protest in front of the Burmese embassy.
- Singapore reiterated concerns over the Burma junta's continued detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Japan slammed Burma's junta for refusing to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and keeping her whereabouts unknown to the rest of the world.