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Love and Politics
Posted in Poems/Songs in English on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve come through the road
Coming toward my chest
That brings me where your net lies
Does Love just causes
The half moon to smile
Or removing the jasmine on your hair?
For me, love is just like a silent crime
I have a bad mind
As well as expecting a good time.
To love one nationality to the others
To understand one religion to [...]
Human Experiment (Burmese Poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Homesickness (Burmese Poem)
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Bangkok Diary (Burmese Poem)
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Political Prisoners’ Lives Endangered By Neglect
Posted in Burma News on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
_ report by Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
U Ne Win, 60, who is secretary for the National League for Democracy (NLD), suffers from hypertension and heart problems. However he did not receive any proper medical treatment, and has had to rely on medicine provided by his family. As a result of this condition, he [...]
Burmese junta degrades itself
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
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Gambari in the Looking Glass
Posted in Articles in English on Aug 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
By Taisamyone
As he shaves this morning and looks in the bathroom mirror, Ibrahim Gambari is no doubt contemplating his recent visit to Burma with some disappointment. His agenda has been dictated by the SPDC and his ‘good offices’ attempt to meet with DASSK have been rebuffed. In short, he has not been able to impress [...]
Save her to Save Burma
Posted in Articles in English on Aug 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
By Feraya Nangmone
To many people, especially in the West, Burma is just a small insignificant country in the East, ruled by a military government. The monks’ uprising in 2007 and the regime’s violent crackdown shocked a number of the people I know but because of other world events, Burma was soon forgotten. Earlier this year, [...]
Mother Suu’s Battle Cry (Burmese)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Suu Silently Signals a Battle Cry (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Aug 28th, 2008 4 Comments »
What the West Can Do
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By Richard C. Holbrooke and Ronald Asmus
Richard Holbrooke, US ambassador to the United Nations in the Clinton administration, writes a monthly column for The Washington Post.
TBILISI – Given the tremendous damage that Russia has inflicted on Georgia, it is easy to conclude that the Kremlin has achieved its objectives. But, so far, Russia has failed [...]
Shock and Panic
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By David Healy
David Healy is Professor of Psychiatry in Cardiff University; he has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving SSRI drugs, and in bringing these problems to the attention of American and British regulators.
CARDIFF – No medical therapy is treated more differently by countries, regions, hospitals, and doctors than [...]
America’s Voodoo Human Rights Policy in Haiti
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By Loune Viaud and Monika Kalra Varma
Monika Kalra Varma is Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights.
Loune Viaud is Operations Director at Zamni Lasante in Haiti and recipient of the 2002 RFK Human Rights Award.
THE IDB, the world’s largest regional development bank, works in Latin America and the Caribbean purportedly to “contribute [...]
Prayer for Burma (Poem)
Posted in Poems/Songs in English on Aug 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By May Ng,
August 2008, New York
Do you recall the land of golden spires?
Where morning bells are answered with murmurs of saffron prayers
And the silence of bare feet echoing their innocence
In a land overwhelmed by evilness and greed
A message of hope for hearts in deepest despair
In a language of love for a people enduring only callousness [...]
Save Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted in Articles in English on Aug 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has entered into a hunger strike and we all need to save her life. Saving her life means saving Burma’s future. It is time we all come together and demand her freedom and freedom for Burma.
It is obvious that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is on this [...]
Mother Suu’s Answer (Burmese Poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Is Aung San Suu Kyi on Hunger-strike?
Posted in Burma News on Aug 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
YANGON (AFP) – Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has started refusing food deliveries, her party said Tuesday, but the ruling junta denied rumours she had launched a hunger strike.
Exiled dissidents in India and Thailand reported that the Nobel Peace Prize winner last accepted fresh food supplies on August 15 but her National [...]