From The Irrawady:
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday elected Burma to serve as one of five vice presidents for Asia during the 63rd session beginning on September 16.
In all, 21 vice presidents were elected by the General Assembly during a special meeting which also elected Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua as the president of the 63rd session....
This is from one of our posts last year:
...Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
