by Beena Sarwar, Yahoo Groups, USA - Being a woman and a teacher cost Khatoon Bibi her life. On Saturday, September 29, 2007 four masked men on two motorcycles shot her dead with AK-47 assault rifles as she waited at a bus stop to return home from school in Pakistan’s
Mohmand Agency, part of the tribal belt adjacent to the North West Frontier Province.

with Maureen Aung-Thwin, Suzanne DiMaggio, Thaung Htun, Scot Marciel, Sean Turnell, Open Society, USA - Asia Society and the Open Society Institute convened a panel discussion to revisit the situation in Burma in light of the military government's announced "roadmap to democracy," including its intention to conduct a national referendum to approve a new constitution in May, followed by a multiparty general election in 2010. How credible is this development given that the new constitution would effectively bar independent political leaders from participating in the process? The panel also assessed recent efforts at the international and regional levels to advance national reconciliation in Burma. What role can and should international actors such as the United Nations and the United States play together with ASEAN and Burma's influential neighbors?