[Update -- From the Washington Post:

Nyi Nyi Aung, a Montgomery Village resident and Burmese democracy advocate who has traveled there often, appears to be politically inconvenient for both the United States and the Burmese military dictatorship at a moment when the two countries have taken tentative steps toward engagement after years of stormy antagonism.

"It is shocking to me that an American citizen has been treated this way and higher U.S. officials are silent on that," said Wa Wa Kyaw, Nyi Nyi's fiancee and also a U.S. citizen and Maryland resident. "It will let the generals think, 'We can do whatever we want, even torture and inhumane treatment of a U.S. citizen,' because America wants to do the engagement policy."

Politically inconvenient? Perhaps the Obama administration is not all that silent.

From the Irrawaddy:

The United States on Thursday urged the Burmese military junta to provide immediate consular access to Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung, the US national who was arrested on arrival at the Rangoon airport on Sept. 3 and is currently being subjected to a “military dog confinement" in the infamous Insein Prison.

“We call on the Burmese government to grant the United States immediate consular access as required by obligations under the Vienna Convention," a State Department spokesman, Mark C. Toner, told The Irrawaddy.

Sounds kind of vocal to me.]

While I’m out of town visiting family, I thought everyone might benefit seeing a bit of what the is appearing on television in Myanmar. Frankly, I’m surprised that the State Peace and Development Council (aka, Myanmar’s military doctors) went for this, but even the most evil of people must have some corner of compassion, right?

From Bernama:

A documentary film of the international Music Television has been introduced in Myanmar, to raise the awareness about human trafficking in Asia and the Pacific, China’s Xinhua news agency reported, citing the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar as saying on Tuesday.

The 30-minute film, made by the MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking campaign and supported by the United States Agency for International Development, will soon be broadcast in such Myanmar television channels as MRTV, MWD and MRTV-4.

Here’s Part I…

The film is narrated in 12 different languages by Lucy Lieu of Hollywood, Rain of South Korea, Ta Ta Yang of Thailand, Karen Mok of China, Lara Dutta of Bollywood and Myanmar vocalist Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein.

The film would raise the awareness of Myanmar women in human trafficking and produce a good outcome for Myanmar youths, said the Myanmar vocalist.