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By HOLLY RAMER,
AP
Posted: 2007-09-29 18:06:49
RYE, N.H. (AP) – Arizona Sen. John McCain said Saturday that both the United States and Myanmar ’s neighbors need to be tougher on the military junta responsible for this week’s brutal crackdown on demonstrators.
“These thugs have started executing and killing people in the streets right and left,” the Republican presidential hopeful [...]
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By CHISAKI WATANABE,
AP
Posted: 2007-09-30 00:10:30
TOKYO (AP) – A Japanese official left for Myanmar on Sunday to press the military government to take steps toward democracy and to protest the killing of a Japanese journalist during a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka was expected to arrive in Yangon by Sunday evening, according [...]
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3,000 rally to support Myanmar protests
Saturday September 29, 2007
The Star on line http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/29/nation/19031103&sec=nation
Myanmar immigrants and supporters rally in KL
KUALA LUMPUR: About 3,000 refugees, migrant workers and activists dressed in red marched to the Myanmar embassy here to hand over a memorandum urging the military rulers to settle the current crisis in the country.
Members [...]
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AP
Posted: 2007-09-30 00:15:24
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – Authorities in Myanmar were detaining a journalist reporting for a Japanese newspaper for the third day Sunday, his family members said.
Min Zaw, a Myanmar national working for The Tokyo Shimbun, was taken from his home early Friday by plainclothes security personnel who said he would be held temporarily for [...]
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Razali: Belief in constructive engagement was an illusion
The Star on line Sunday September 30, 2007
By JANE RITIKOS
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/30/nation/19040044&sec=nation
KUALA LUMPUR: The belief that constructive engagement with Myanmar was working was an illusion, said former UN Envoy to Myanmar Tan Sri Razali Ismail.
“Many people knew that the constructive engagement was not constructive because there was very little [...]
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By DENIS D. GRAY,
AP
Posted: 2007-09-29 23:35:47
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – Watching soldiers firing their guns and beating die-hard protesters with clubs in the streets of Yangon, a distraught man shouted, “Bloodbath again! Bloodbath again! Why don’t the Americans come and help us?”
It was a familiar plea for intervention by the outside world, heard every time the [...]
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_ reported by Aung Ko Ko
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- reported by Tay Za Aung
Pro-democracy activists in USA have been doing demonstrations and protests infront of Burmese embassy in Washington D.C . There were groups such as Amnesty International for Burma, U.S Campaign for Burma and NCGUB joined and demonstrated there. They will keep going their activity by opening 24hr camp [...]
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Personnel of the Peoples’ Armed Forces, please follow the Example of Battalion 33 for the sake of the People, the Culture and the Sasana (Buddhist Religion)
Now is the time to choose your destiny. The Military junta has reached its [...]
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Posted: 2007-09-29 12:59:59
AP Photo BK101
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press Writer
Lech Walesa and Desmond Tutu speak of solidarity. Vaclav Havel hopes for another “Velvet Revolution.” Wei Jingsheng warns of a bloody sequel to Tiananmen Square.
Some of the globe’s most prominent former dissidents – acutely aware of what can go right and wrong when a repressed society [...]
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Before junta switched off entire Internet system in Burma, phtos of junta soldiers’ shooting and beating on peaceful demonstrators were spread widely all over the world within minutes of the incidents. So junta ordered its soldiers to kill any civilian journalist taking photos of soldiers shooting at deonstrators.
On the fateful day, as the late Japanese [...]
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Military regime’s soldiers use disproportionate force, using powerful rifles with large bullets to shoot at peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators.
A big bullet shell
bullet shell compared with a pen
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Since their overlord Chinese authorities has warned Burmese junta not to shoot directly at demonstrators, Burmese soldiers in Rangoon are now using a new tactic; soldiers shooting over the heads of demonstrators, thugs chasing after running demonstrators and beating them with iron rods and wooden clubs, and then injured demonstrators are taken away to detention [...]