• UN Special Rapporteur says that Burmese authorities are ?presiding over a worsening security and human rights situation” and urges the govt to accept the UN fact - finding mission. • Burmese authorities repeat that a UN investigation in Arakan State will only aggravate tensions . • Lower House of Parliament denounces Yanghee Lee?s latest end of mission statement. • Shan State : deteriorating security situation, and inadequate assistance to civilians. • Insecurity and sectarian violence further triggered in Arakan State; new accounts of abuse surface . • Burmese journalists further detained and/or charged for doing their job, despite general outcry and governmental promises to amend the Telecommunications Law. • Tatmadaw calls off a Shan meeting in Thailand, further undermining ethnic confidence in the peace process . • Fighting between Tatmadaw and Northern Alliance continues; hundreds of civilians displaced. • Investigators say that Tatmadaw plane crashed due to bad weather. • Crackdown on Burmese migrant workers in Thailand. • Flood displaces thousands, kills 2, washes away a Buddhist pagoda. • H1N1 influenza virus plagues Burma, kills 10. • Tatmadaw urges the government to ?take necessary actions” against Rangoon Chief Minister over ?insulting” comments concerning the military; Chief Minister apologizes . • Rights groups file cases to rewrite the 2008 Constitution; courts reject them . • Upper House approves the new Myanmar Companies Law. • US officials insist that Burma should cut any remaining links with North Korea amid Burmese officials? denials.