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Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
For Immediate Release 13th May 2009
Three-Hundred Thousand Back Burma Political Prisoner Campaign
More than three-hundred thousand people have signed the petition calling for UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to secure the release of Burma’s political prisoners. The figure means that someone has signed the petition every 20 seconds since the [...]
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For Immediate Release
12 May 2009
Our voice and our rejection to SPDC’s intention of transforming Kachin ceasefire forces to border guards
All Kachins across the globe are united in taking a firm stance of absolute rejection to the SPDC’s claim of transitioning Kachin revolutionary forces into national border guards. We urge all Kachin armed groups to join [...]
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EU urges ‘proper health care’ for ailing Suu Kyi
EUbusiness (press release) -
“The EU calls on the authorities of Burma/Myanmar to guarantee for Ms Suu Kyi immediate and proper medical care, as well as access for her personal attorney …
Pro-Regime Web Sites Step Up Smear Campaign Against Suu Kyi
The Irrawaddy News Magazine –
… the lakeside [...]
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Blowback on Myanmar’s cyclone disaster
Asia Times Online - ??
By Brian McCartan CHIANG MAI – The tragic human cost of last year’s Cyclone Nargis has never been in question: the killer storm in Myanmar…
took the lives of
Local media awaits permission to print intruder’s photograph
Mizzima.com - ?
by Phanida Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The local media in Burma [...]
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Posted in WORLD Digest on May 12th, 2009 No Comments »
By EDITH M. LEDERER
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AP
UNITED NATIONS -The United States won a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time along with four countries accused of serious human rights violations — Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China and Russia.
Former President George W. Bush’s administration boycotted the council over its repeated criticism of Israel and its refusal [...]
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Italy 1509
Romeo & Juliet
Arakan State, 2009
Rohingya Boy and Rohingya Girl
Time hasn’t changed when falling in love is a crime.
Kaladan News: May 7, 2009
Youth arrested for talking to lover
Maungdaw, Arakan State: A youth was arrested by Nasaka Burma’s border security force on April 22 for talking to his lover in her house, a relative of [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -The health of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has improved after she suffered from dehydration and low blood pressure last week, her party said Tuesday.
One of her medics, Dr. Pyone Moe Ei, was allowed to visit Suu Kyi, 63, at her lakeside home in Yangon on Monday afternoon. The doctor [...]
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Posted in Burma News on May 11th, 2009 No Comments »
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US demands Myanmar grant Aung San Suu Kyi access to doctor
AFP -
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US government demanded Monday that Myanmar’s military junta grant “immediate” access for opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to see …
Myanmar junta denies Aung San Suu Kyi doctor visits
Newspost Online -
The Burmese military government is not allowing doctors to check [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s military rulers allowed a doctor to make a follow-up visit to detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday after she was found last week to be suffering from dehydration and low blood pressure.
Officials from Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party said Dr. Pyone Moe Ei was granted a [...]
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Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
For Immediate Release 11th May 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi unwell: UN and ASEAN Should Send Envoys
The Burma Campaign UK today expressed deep concern about the health of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is being denied proper medical treatment by Burma’s military dictatorship.
Aung San Suu Kyi is reported [...]
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National Democratic Front (NDF)
Statement on 33rd Anniversary of NDF Foundation
The ethnic national leaders have established the NDF with the aim of realizing the noble objectives of equality, self-determination and the establishment of federal union of Burma based on democracy. They have been struggling on for more than 3 decades and the 33rd Anniversary of foundation [...]
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