World English News » Myanmar http://worldenglishnews.com International English Language News Articles and Blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Senator Jim Webb secures release of John Yettaw from Burma http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/08/16/senator-jim-webb-secures-release-of-john-yettaw-from-burma/ http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/08/16/senator-jim-webb-secures-release-of-john-yettaw-from-burma/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:16:53 +0000 admin http://worldenglishnews.com/?p=216 The US should abandon sanctions against Burma, a senior senator said today after flying out of Rangoon with the American man jailed for swimming to the house of the Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Jim Webb was speaking in Bangkok after securing the release of John Yettaw, the eccentric American well-wisher whose clandestine visit to Ms Suu Kyi inadvertently led to her being given an additional 18 months of house arrest.

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