Dear friends,
Our coming issue on 31.12.2006 is our last in the year 2006. Let us all say good bye to 2006 by writing “year2006 review” in our last edition in 2006.
[…]

Read Full Post »

This week, BURMA DIGEST is asking readers to consider who should be our ‘Political Personalities of the year 2006 for Burma’.  We can perhaps identify at least two distinct categories of personality – firstly, those who work for the people of Burma in the pro-democracy arena, and second the […]

Read Full Post »

(Interview with journalist Evan William)
 

On Monday 02 October 2006, Channel 4 TV’s dispatches program broadcasted a documentary called “Burma’s Secret War”, in which […]

Read Full Post »

Dear friends,
                 In democracy everything is decided by people’s votes. As you know we are collecting people’s votes to choose the most interesting political personality 2006 for Burma. The choice will be made by people’s vole, and your vote.
                If you haven’t vote please vote on […]

Read Full Post »

Some people expressed their views and remarks when they voted for the most interesting Politician 2006 Burma. Some just voted without any comments.
From voters’ statements of their opinions, a few interesting quotes are compiled below.

Read Full Post »

It is difficult for me to vote for just one single category. So pardon me as I make some categories and vote accordingly.
Domestic Patriots
For patriots within Burma, some of the people who come to mind are Su Su Nway,  Ko Mya Aye and Ko Jimmy of the 88 Generation.
The 88 Generation Student Leaders were very […]

Read Full Post »

“In ten days travelling across Burma, people bent my ears in bars and cars, on riverbanks and in villages. They talked so much I feared for their safety. They were funny, bitter, rueful, and touchingly friendly. Totalitarian countries are lonely places. ‘Thank you for coming’ they said, ‘talking to oneself sends a person mad’.”  (Christopher […]

Read Full Post »

“I will visit beautiful Burma when Aung San Suu Kyi says so”……..(Joanna Lumley, British actress)
“The cost of a holiday could be someone’s life”. Have you ever thought of this? Actually, those words belong in the slogan launched by the Burma Campaign UK, associated with their campaign to boycott tourism in Burma. You may, as well, […]

Read Full Post »

EITI stands for Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Myanmar/Burma  is a resource rich country, rich in minerals, jewelry, forestry products, petroleum and Natural Gas and as SPDC Military Junta is mis-using our country’s wealth, most of the people in Myanmar are poor. I believe that this is […]

Read Full Post »

By May K Ng
Once upon a time
You cradled me in your strong arms
And held me during my nightmares
Nursed me with your sweetest honey
And sang me the best lullabies
I still remember your face
A brown sun burnt skin under the white head wrap
Kind calm eyes without any bitterness
Thirty years ago
You handed me a story about the Holocaust
And […]

Read Full Post »

For most of the Burmese citizens, we already had a bitter practical, life experience of Socialism under Military Dictatorship of General Ne Win. Like all the Socialist and Communist leaders around the world in history General Ne Win had used  the BSPP or Burmese Socialist programme Party as a […]

Read Full Post »

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

Famous Burmese Political Activists in 2006 - Editorial: Khin Ma Ma Myo
U Shwe Ohn’s Book & Human Traffickers in Rakhine - Letters to editor
The Reality inside SPDC Army, part 18 - Serialized True story : Captain Nay Thu (retired)
On Strategic Non-violent Conflict, part […]

Read Full Post »

This week photo galleries are as followed:

Dr. Cynthia Maung’s 47th Birthday - courtesy of Dr. Winston Taw
Conference of NLD (LA-Japan) - courtesy of Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Maesot Maesarieng Diaries - courtesy of Dr. Winston Taw
Sayar Tin Maung Than’s Literary Conference - courtesy of Kyaw Kyaw Naing
Bo Aung Kyaw Day Ceremony in India - courtesy of Thangjalun

Read Full Post »

Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) has several excellent articles and information pages about the whys and wherefores of tourism in Burma.  Basically, if you support the call for human rights and democracy in Burma then don’t go there – instead do something to help the suffering of the people […]

Read Full Post »

Last October a North Korean vessel arrived Thilawa Port of Burma and unloaded weapons onto military trucks. That night Thilawa area and Rangoon was blacked out by the authorities and the weapons were transferred to unknown destination, according to a reliable source in Rangoon.  If it is true, this is […]

Read Full Post »

Popular student leader Min Ko Naing and his comrades stand together under the name of “Student Generation since 1988” also known as the “88 Student Generation”.  The 88 Student Generation group was well respected by the Burmese people and by activists around the world.
 Another group of former student activists turned into […]

Read Full Post »

(Burmese Fonts http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/fonts.htm )

Parlour - Editorial: Khin Ma Ma Myo
10-D Movement Anniversary - Interview with Ko Aung Moe Win
The Reality inside SPDC Army, part 17 - Serialized True story : Captain Nay Thu (retired)
On Strategic Non-violent Conflict, part 11b - Serialized Strategy Discussion: Lwin Aung Soe
Never Forgiven - Short Story: Khin […]

Read Full Post »

 

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission has launched its first Annual Report in the Jubilee Room, House of Commons, London at 5pm on 11 December, the day after International Human Rights Day. The Shadow Foreign […]

Read Full Post »