"The Burmese come to work in Thailand for different reasons. Most come because of hardship at home. Now, we are aware of what is happening in Burma, we are very angry. The Burmese government does not care about its citizens.

The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) welcomes Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont's call for a fair election without money politics, made on his first day as Interior Minister. ANFREL calls on political parties, the Elections Commission of Thailand (ECT), the government and voters themselves to make this aspiration a reality.

The Forum for Democracy in Burma (FDB) would like to call all 27 European Union (EU) members to impose economic sanctions including a total ban on all new investments in Burma and a ban on financial transactions.