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Listen to AudioUN's Pinheiro 'determines Burma casualties' report
The United Nations Human Rights Envoy, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, is in Thailand after a five-day mission to Burma.
He's reported to have said that he's been able to determine how many people were killed and detained in Burma during the suppression of September's pro-democracy protests.
Mr Pinheiro is expected to publish the figures in two weeks, after he's presented his findings to the UN. Burma's military government says that ten people were killed when troops opened fire on protesters, but diplomats and dissidents says many more people died.
Mr Pinheiro met a number of imprisoned dissidents during his visit, but was not allowed to see the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
BBC cover:
-Interview with U Aung Thein, an opposite lawyer, on Mr Pinheiro's trip and the conditions of recently released political prisoners.
-Interview with Ko Thet Naung Soe who recently released from Insein prison on his health condition.
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