Dear friend, 
This week we produced a newer version of BURMA DIGEST specially made for Burmese readers. It is attached below as a pdf file. It is also
available on http://uk.geocities.com/tayzathuria/BD.pdf .
It is made simpler, easier to download and more reader-friendly for Burmese readers.
Please kindly download and have a look.
And please kindly distribute it to all your […]

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Although Burma cannot produce cars or computers or airplanes, Burma nowadays is mass producing refugees and exporting them to all over the world. This refugee production scheme is efficiently run under superb guidance of Burma's SPDC military regime.
So here we are all refugees, the product of nearly half a century […]

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I welcome and appreciated Mr. Ibrahim A. Gambari’s efforts to help Burma to change as a democratic state but Mr. Gambari needs to know well about the mind set of the Burmese generals. 
International Herald Tribune
A crack in the Burmese door
Ibrahim A. Gambari
 

 For a number of years now, the military leaders […]

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  There is a semantic problem with Burmese term for refugee, dokka-the, which literally means the bearer of suffering or dokka.  This negative rendering has serious implications. In Burmese culture, refugees are stereotyped as a bunch of shanty-dwelling people whose flight to their neighbouring countries usually originated in the smouldering […]

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This week Burmese language articles are as followed:

Eating SPDC’s Potatos - Feature Article: Khin Ma Ma Myo
An Interesting Case on International Criminal Court - News Report: Thaung Nyunt
What we need - Poem: Luu Kalaung
New UN Secretary General from Asia - News Report : Thaung Nyunt
Birthday Wishes for Daw Suu - Postcards: Ma Hla Mon

Burma […]

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The overnight bus from Bangkok had arrived in Mae Sot at 5:00 am, and I had asked the tuk-tuk (a small taxi cart pull along by a motorbike) to take me directly to the clinic.  As the tuk-tuk made a left turn into what seemed like just an empty dirt […]

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This World Refugee day was created in 2000 by a special United Nations General Assembly Resolution. June 20 had previously been commemorated as African Refugee Day in a number of African countries.
In the United Kingdom World Refugee Day is celebrated as the start of Refugee Week. Refugee Week […]

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Also known as Internally displaced people.
“A refugee is a person, who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing […]

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20th June is World Refugee Day and many people around the world are celebrating the International Refugee Day in recognition of the millions of refugees around the world displaced internally or across the border, by conflict, persecution and other forms of violence. But we could not even see a very dim […]

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How can you ignore
Hundreds of thousands of people
Killed and fled in homeless nightmare
Raped and run on Salween shore
How can you ignore
Hundreds of thousands of people
Hunger and poor in endless struggle
Torture and forced-labour in common show
How can you ignore
"The Lady" beloved by
Hundreds of thousands of people
Still in cage for more and more (years)
How can you ignore
Hundreds […]

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by Jim McNalis 
[Jim McNalis is the creator of the very well known sculpture of Aung San Suu Kyi. Jim made the sculpture with clay from Burmese soil which he secretly packed away in his suitcase on his returns home from his occasional trips to Burma.
He presented his famous […]

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Since morning I felt that today is a special day but just can't remember how special. I’ve been seeing websites and hearing people talk about today, so what exactly is today? I don’t quite figure it out until I open my PC and check my mails; then realized, today is Aunty […]

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Burmese students and dissidents who are doing hunger strike in front of White House in Washington are calling for United States, United Nations and international community's immediate intervention in Burma for […]

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A birthday celebration for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 61st birthday was held in London on 17.06.2006, with birthday speeches, birthday wishes, Union Dance and a dinner of traditional Burmese foods.

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A birthday celebration for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 61st birthday was held in Tokyo by Burmese activists and international fans of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Tokyo.

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A birthday celebration for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 61st birthday was held in Melbourne, Australia by Burmese activists and international fans of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Australia. They also offered lunch […]

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A birthday celebration for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 61st birthday was held in Danmark by Burmese activists and international fans of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Danmark.

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A birthday celebration for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 61st birthday was held in India by Burmese activists and international fans of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in India.

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