although the internet wrangling of the ABSDF continues the loose alliance of ABSDF,DPNS and NDD has revived the Burmese prodemocracy movement along the Thai-Burma border. Recognizing that they cannot survive without working together ,none of the leader of the three group has done anything to jeopardize the alliance. we were happily surprised to see that the political capacity-building project was going really well a former ABSDF member said at workshops,members of different group had intentse discussions at workshops look more like agroup of comrades exchanging views freely at this point it is hard to measure the extent to which the ABSDF-DPN-DNN alliance had influenced the interaction between the junta and the NLD or the junta relations with Western countries. but its activities have certainly kept political developments in Burma in the international limelight