DEMOCRACY activists are calling on the UN Security Council to take action against the Burmese Government as Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s imprisoned opposition leader, completes a total of ten years in detention today. Since 1989, the year before Daw Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won elections that were ignored by the ruling junta, she has spent only six years free of house arrest. Despite repeated condemnations by Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, and by foreign governments and international human rights organisations, the ruling State Peace and Development Council shows no sign of releasing her or relaxing its authoritarian rule. Full Story