Reconciliation
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Cartoon based on an idea by ‘Young Tai’
Archive for January, 2008
Natural Law in Burma
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
The first pot represents 12th Feb. 1947, Panglong Agreement, now called Union Day. The Shan, Kachin and Chin who signed the Panglong Agreement with the Burman helped to achieve independence. The Burman is in the pot calling for help and they are pulling him out of the boiling water.
The second pot represents 2nd March 1962 […]
Suu Kyi Advices: Prepare for the worst
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Myanmar: ‘Prepare for the Worst,’ Suu Kyi Advises writePost();
By AP
Published: January 31, 2008
The pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed a rare respite from house arrest to meet with members of her party, the National League for Democracy. A party spokesman reported that she had criticized the series of meetings she has […]
A Coup Is Indispensable Inside The Army, Not In The Exiled Community
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
A COUP IS INDISPENSABLE INSIDE THE ARMY, NOT IN THE EXILED COMMUNITY
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_ By Ethan Bourne
According to inside sources, the military regime has planned to install a puppet civilian government since October, 2004. To avert attention and trick the nation and the international community, Ne Win formed a Socialist party in which all appointed delegates had […]
RECENT ARRESTS
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RECENT ARRESTS
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November arrests - 45 total
On 2 November, National League for Democracy (NLD) members Aung Kyaw
Moe and Tin Yu were arrested.
On 4 November, NLD member Zaw Zaw was arrested at a coffee shop in
Yangon’s Kyeemyindaing Township.
On 4 November, U Gambira, head of the newly-formed All-Burma Monks
Alliance and a leader of the protests, was arrested and […]
Valentine Humour for Than Shwe (Burmese & English)
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jan 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
_ original Burmese, by Saw Wai
_ English Translation & discussion by David Law
“FEBRUARY 14″
Ar rin bek ka pyaw dair
(Aaron Beck, the psychiatrist, said)
Nar nar khan sah dat hma khan sah hma
(Only if you know how to suffer painfully)
Yoo yoo moo moo go phyit nay hma
(Only if you are crazy - crazy )
Kyi […]
Number of Political Prisoners Increases in 2007 in Burma
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Number of Political Prisoners Increases in 2007;Crackdown in Burma Continues
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With the crackdown on nationwide demonstrations in September, the number of political prisoners in Burma increased in the year 2007. There are currently at least 1864 political prisoners in Burma, not including all cases of detention since the crackdown. This is 706 more political prisoners than […]
Myanmar junta steps up policing of internet, arrests blogger
Posted in Burma News on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
AP
Posted: 2008-01-30 21:47:55
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Myanmar’s junta has stepped up surveillance of the Internet, arresting one blogger who wrote about the stifling of free expression in the military-ruled nation, a media advocacy group says.
The blogger, Nay Myo Latt, was taken into custody in Yangon on Wednesday after writing about the suppression of freedoms following […]
US disappointed there no time frame talks between Junta and pro-democracy leader
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
AP
Posted: 2008-01-30 14:23:59
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States expressed disappointment Wednesday at the lack of a time frame for reconciliation talks between the ruling junta in Myanmar and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
But White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said she has been in touch with U.S. officials. He did not elaborate […]
Suu Kyi unsatisfied with Junta talks
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
AP
Posted: 2008-01-30 12:48:03
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unsatisfied with the progress of her meetings with a representative of Myanmar’s military junta and cautions the public to “hope for the best and prepare for the worst,” a member of her political party said Wednesday.
Suu Kyi, who was allowed to […]
Rambo Burma Campaign in Fort Wayne USA
Posted in Documentary Photos on Jan 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
Burmese pro-democracy activists in Fortwayne USA are making a campaign, taking the opportunity of new Rambo movie based on atrocities in Burma, to increase international awareness about atrocities being committed by military regime in Burma.
Bogus students, bogus monks and bogus soldiers
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
“Prepare for worst,” Suu Kyi tells Myanmar
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YANGON (Reuters) - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is frustrated at a lack of talks on political reform with the ruling military junta since last year’s bloody crackdown on dissent, her party said on Wednesday.
After a rare meeting between the Nobel peace laureate and leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD), […]
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘not satisfied’ with junta talks
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YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is “not satisfied” with her talks with the nation’s junta, which after three months have yielded few results, her spokesman said Wednesday.
The Nobel peace prize winner, who has been under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years, made the statement during a […]
Experts working on vaccine to fight AIDS in China
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By Tan Ee Lyn,
Reuters
Posted: 2008-01-21 05:59:23
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong and China are working on an AIDS vaccine to protect against three variants of HIV sweeping across south and west China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Chen Zhiwei, director of the new AIDS Institute in Hong Kong, said scientists have been using gene sequencing […]
Current political consideration on parallel government
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Current political consideration on parallel government
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_ By Dr Tint Swe
There are a dozen governments in exile listed in encyclopedias and that includes 17-year old National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB). The fundamental purpose of government that is the maintenance of basic security and public order cannot be virtually possible for a parallel […]
Burma’s Suu Kyi meets colleagues
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
BBC News /30 January 2008
Ms Suu Kyi remains under
house arrest in Rangoon
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to meet political allies for the second time since last year’s bloody crackdown.
Officials took Ms Suu Kyi to a military guest house to meet seven top members of her National League for Democracy.
She last […]
Current political consideration on parallel government
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Current political consideration on parallel government
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_ By Dr Tint Swe
There are a dozen governments in exile listed in encyclopedias and that includes 17-year old National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB). The fundamental purpose of government that is the maintenance of basic security and public order cannot be virtually possible for a parallel […]