July 01 2003

- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was moved from notorious Insein Central Jail to a new location 40 kilometres northeast of the capital.

July 02 2003

- The Altsean-Burma, a regional network of rights organizations, urged Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to review Burma's membership and to develop a time-frame within which the ruling junta should release Aung San Suu Kyi.
- An Indian court acquitted Soe Myint, a Burmese national, who had been charged with hijacking a Thai Airways plane from Bangkok to Calcutta in November 1990.

July 03 2003

- The International Committee of the Red CrossRed Cross said he military regime has at least 30 prisoners from a clash that triggered a crackdown on the opposition and to the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
- 30 S.Korea lawmakers submitted a resolution to their National Assembly urging the country's junta to release its opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and guarantee her political freedom.

July 04 2003

- Khin Zaw and Wunna Maung, both of whom are members of National League for Democracy party, testified the most comprehensive and detailed yet of the May 30 violence before a Thai Senate panel.
- Japan said Burma's explanation of Suu Kyi's situation was "completely unacceptable." after meeting with Khin Maung Win, a top aide to junta leader Than Shwe.

July 05 2003

- Photographs of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talking and dining with country's ruling generals appeared in official newspapers.
- Around 50 Burmese nationals living in Bangladesh held a demonstration in Dakha urging the release of Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of the arrival of Foreign Minister Win Aung.
- Gen Khin Nyunt, chief of military intelligence, criticised foreign pressure to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in remarks.

July 06 2003

- The official press launched vitriolic new attacks in a series of commentaries portraying Aung San Suu Kyi as inflexible and under the influence of foreign powers.

July 07 2003

- The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) made its first visit to Rangoon's notorious Insein prison since the May 30 violence which led to the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 10 2003

- Canada announced it was banning Burma's military leaders from its territory to protest against the regime's detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- In a personal letter to an unnamed Asian leader, a copy of which was obtained by the Fianicial Times (UK), Burma's senior general, Than Shwe, said his regime acted because NLD factions "were conspiring to create an anarchic situation... with a view to attaining power" by Suu Kyi's birthday on June 19.
- National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB) in a statement released to the press, decried that Burma’s Foreign Minister and his deputy are on begging diplomatic mission the Asian region to justify the abduction and detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi agreed at talks Thursday to pressure Burma's junta over its detention of Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Mitch McConnell, the No. 2 U.S. Senate Republican urged the Bush administration to freeze Burma's assets in the U.S. and impose travel restrictions on the country.

July 14 2003

- The British government urged travel agents not to sell tours to Burma, saying tourist travel provides support for its military rulers.
- Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed that Junta asked him to assure US President George W. Bush it would push ahead with national reconciliation.

July 15 2003

- The U.S. House of Representatives voted 418-2 to ban imports from Burma.

July 16 2003

- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was exploring ways to increase the pressure on Burma's military rulers to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Duwa Zaw Aung, NLD MP-elect from Waingmaw township, Kachin state escaped to the border today with the help of the NLD(Liberated Area) and other opposition groups.

July 17 2003

- 12 people were arrested, who were accused of plotting to assassinate five members of the regime as part of a campaign to create civil unrest and seize power.
- four journalists were arrested over an article on a football team.

July 18 2003

- 91 people were released after being detained following what the military government said was a clash between backers of pro-democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-junta people in northern Burma on May 30.
- Thailand revealed ''road map'' in which country's military rulers should meet with Western countries in a closed-door meeting attended by various countries.

July 19 2003

- Ceremonies to mark the assassination of country's independence hero General Aung San were held in the absence of his daughter Aung San Suu Kyi who has been under detention.
- BBC reported the first eyewitness evidence that the country's army directed and orchestrated the attack in May on the motorcade of the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 20 2003

- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warned in an interview that Burma might have to be expelled from the ASEAN grouping if its military rulers continue defying world pressure to release democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 21 2003

- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said that the ASEAN grouping must give Burmese authorities more time to "prove themselves" to the international community.
- Indonesia said the continued detention of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi would damage ASEAN and the matter should be resolved as soon as possible.

July 22 2003

- French President Jacques Chirac backed Malaysia's policy of Asian-style diplomacy to persuade Burma's military junta to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- United Nations special envoy Razali Ismail supported Malaysian PM's warning on Burma.

July 24 2003

- Foreign ministers from Europe and Asia demanded the immediate release of Burma's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in a statement issued after the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Bali,Indonesia.
- European Commission said Burma's refusal to introduce democracy is damaging the entire region and could even prove a roadblock to enlarging the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).

July 25 2003

- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said ASEAN leaders must address the political deadlock in Burma in order to strengthen the grouping.

July 27 2003

- Junta accused Aung San Suu Kyi and her NLD party, of plotting to seize power from the regime and insisting it would never stand aside.
- Malaysia warned Burma to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi or risk intervention from the United Nations or other countries.

July 28 2003

- U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill closing the U.S. market to imports from Burma and urged neighboring Asian nations to do their part.
- Aung San Suu Kyi met an international Red Cross official and was in good health.
- Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Aung San Suu Kyi should walk free at once as part of a process to launch democratic reforms in the military-ruled country.

July 29 2003

- Britain condemned the continued detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by Burma's military junta as "simply not acceptable".

July 30 2003

- Amnesty International urged country's military junta to bring to justice the culprits behind the May 30 attacks on opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her party.
- Indonesia's foreign minister said Burma's military junta will resolve an impasse over the detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi before a summit of Southeast Asian nations in October.
- The Philippines government demanded that the Burma's ruling junta release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

July 31 2003

- Jan Kavan, chairman of the UN General Assembly, said the UN would join other countries to demand the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.