Imagine you have two sons. They are handsome, intelligent and loving. You watch them grow up for years with pleasure and hope. But now, the younger one is in jail for taking part in a peaceful demonstration. They put him in a cell worse than a mediaeval dungeon. They beat him up day and night. […]

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Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan -

(Interview with Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan of the Karen National Union)
Secretary-General and spokesperson for the Karen National Union 
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Eulogy for a Martyr
Who knew what was happening?
Inside your chest?
Inside your cell?
How you felt?
Who knew?
Now we are left to wonder.
……………….
……………………………..!
They say that your heart burst.
It must have been overflowed with love.
Love for Burma, love for us.
Your tormented heart might have failed
To keep your chained body alive.
Yet, in life or in death, you did not fail […]

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The White Song of Peace
(By anonymous Student Activist)
Hey, Thet Win Aung!
The white coloured Song of Peace,
Composed out of those scattered pieces
Of your poem recitals, collected
From among the searing scars on your back,
See! We are singing it in chorus now!
Translated by Mya Than Nyunt

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Actually I am not a very good arts critic nor reviewer nor even have a talent to understand or feel a picture perfectly. I even could not fully enjoy the world’s famous “The Mona Lisa’s Smile” (Leonardo da Vinci’s) and Van Gogh’s “The Potato-Eaters”.
But some of the pictures curiously attracted my attention and stayed […]

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Not only Myanmar Citizens but the whole world knew that our beloved leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD leaders, Shan Leaders, thousands of opposition activists are arrested unfairly by the Illegal SPDC, who shamelessly robbed the country.
To add salt to the wound, now they had arrested again the 88 Generation Student leaders like, Min […]

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Some pro-democracy writers and activists have become frustrated with the political impasse in Burma and sought to blame the inaction on the NLD.  For myself, I see a nascent government, a government in waiting; a government prevented from exercising their democratic right to establishing a legal government by a […]

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It was just another lonely day for an ordinary Burmese working in overseas just making ends meet. Days are busy with job commitment and nights are lonely without having loved ones near by; browsing Burmese web sites while sipping a cup of green tea become ritualistic.
A friend forwarded an article written by Maung Setana recently […]

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Human rights are practically non-existent in Communist China. Religious persecution, imprisonment and murder of non-violent political dissidents, torture, organ harvesting and sentences to hard labour are widespread.
The lack of freedom of the press and safety risks for foreign reporters. Many foreign websites are banned from being visited within China, foreign reporters are prohibited from interviewing […]

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China has always been a country of diverse ethnic groups and races. They often refer to the 56 ethnic minorities. The largest ethnic group in China by far is the Han.
The Han are in the ascendancy at present. In the past when any of the other ethnicities was in the ascendancy the Han resisted their […]

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The China has been waiting and preparing for so long when Burma, the only exit of the Indian Ocean, will be part of her influential territory.
They even lost the initial investment when they took care of the B.C.P. (Burmese Communist Party). They just had slices of profits from Ne Win, former dictator (Chairman of BSPP) […]

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The China has been waiting and preparing for so long when Burma, the only exit of the Indian Ocean, will be part of her influential territory.
They even lost the initial investment when they took care of the B.C.P. (Burmese Communist Party). They just had slices of profits from Ne Win, former dictator (Chairman of BSPP) […]

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Since 1988, when he was a high-school student, he has taken part in organizing student protests against the government in Myanmar. He became Vice-General Secretary of the unauthorized Basic Education Student Union (BESU) in 1989.
He […]

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Pro-democracy activists from Burma staged a protest rally in New Delhi, India, this week to mark the 44th Birthday of Ko Min Ko Naing, who is one of the most famous leaders of Burmese pro-democracy movement; he is currently under detention by military authorities in Burma.

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A group of pro-democracy activists from Burma, known as “Anti Dictatorship People’s Freedom Movement (ADPFM)” this week held a demonstration in Washington DC, USA, in front of Burmese Military Attaché Office, to denounce the sham national convention that is taking place currently in Burma .

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A group of pro-democracy activists from Burma, known as “Anti Dictatorship People’s Freedom Movement (ADPFM)” this week held a demonstration in Washington DC, USA, in front of Burmese Military Attaché Office, to denounce the sham national convention that is taking place currently in Burma .

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This week Burmese language articles are as followed:( Burmese Fonts http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/fonts.htm )

Fallen Flowers - Editorial: Khin Ma Ma Myo
May I Interrupt, 3 - Opinion & Satire: Say Pan Khar
Speaking with a Karen Leader - Interview with Padoh Mahn Sha
To Thet Win Aung - Poem: Ko Moe Thee Zun
Eulogy for a Martyr […]

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