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Karen rebel Army forced to retreat
Thursday, 18 June 2009 17:12 Mae Sot (Mizzima) – Burma’s largest active ethnic rebel group has been forced to abandon its stronghold on the Burmese border with Thailand after weeks of fierce fight…
Mizzima News
Kachin Youths Beaten and Hospitalized
Around fifteen ethnic Kachin youths, including schoolchildren, were reportedly seriously [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 18 JUNE, 2009
2000 UNISON ACTIVISTS IN AUNG SAN SUU KYI MASK PROTEST
More than 2,000 delegates at the UNISON national conference in Brighton today donned masks of Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in protest at her continued detention by the Burmese military.
It was a show of solidarity and support for the [...]
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Thousands of Karen Seek Safety in Thailand
An Ancient Pagoda’s Collapse Turns Myanmar’s Gaze to the Stars
UN’s Ban invited to visit Myanmar in July: diplomats
Ban ‘Wants Suu Kyi Freed before Visiting Burma again’
Refugees forced abroad by new Burma offensive
Myanmar says no to reopening Stilwell Road, plan shelved
KNU to Abandon Bases
Myanmar army ‘capture Karen bases’
‘Global plans’ for [...]
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Media Release from BurmaInfo (Japan) : For immediate release June 18, 2009
Former Japanese Prime Minister Calls for the Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Solidarity Messages Pour in from Members of Parliament and Musicians
BurmaInfo warmly welcomes a strong statement from Tsutomu Hata, former Prime Minister of Japan, calling for the release of Burma’s democracy leader Aung [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
Lt-Gen Ye Myint, a broker from Naypyidaw preparing to travel to convince cease fire groups in northern Burma. He is dressing smartly like a gentleman and standing by the helicopter and says “it is easy work, these monkeys on the mountain have low morale, I can play them easily”.
But he comes back from his journey [...]
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Thousands of ethnic Karen villagers have been forced to flee across the border into Thailand over the past few weeks as the Myanmar army steps up its assault on the Karen rebels.
Myanmar’s army and a pro-government militia called the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) attacked the border region near Thailand in a final push to [...]
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MAE SOT, Thailand, June 18 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s biggest rebel group will soon abandon a stronghold on the Thai-Myanmar border after weeks of fierce fighting with government and rival Karen forces, a rebel commander said on Thursday.
The Karen National Union (KNU) will adopt guerrilla tactics rather than waste lives trying to defend the base in [...]
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Burma government forces have overrun three Karen rebel positions in an offensive that has forced thousands of refugees across the Thai border, an aid group said, even as the rebels claimed to have killed or wounded scores of government soldiers.
Burma troops and their allies in the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, a local militia, launched an [...]
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By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Michael Casey, Ap Environmental Writer – 18 June 2009
BANGKOK – Pollution on the Mekong River [...]
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Press Release:
On the morning of Thursday June 18th 2009, UK climber Mike Robertson solo-climbed the outside of the Lloyd’s fourteen-storey, 88m-high building in the City of London – without ropes, climbing equipment or permission. He erected a 5metre-high banner urging the insurance underwriters Lloyd’s of London to cease financial dealings with Burma, and timed his [...]
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By David Calleja – posted Thursday, 18 June 2009One of the most obvious truths in international politics is that Burma’s military regime has absolutely no interest in caring for the millions of people that reside within its borders. Next year, the crowning achievement of the junta’s chokehold on Burma will be complete.
The proposed elections set [...]
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Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
For Immediate Release 17th June 2009
The Burma Campaign UK is calling on the United Nations Security Council to discuss the situation in Eastern Burma, including two new cases of teenage women, one eight months pregnant, being raped and murdered by the Burmese Army, when it debates the protection of civilians [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
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Media Alert : 19 June 2009
To commemorate Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday on 19 June (her 14th in detention), local and Burmese citizens will be holding protests and events in over 20 cities across the world, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and the 2,156 political prisoners currently held in Burma/Myanmar. [...]
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Dear friend
On Friday 19th June, it will be Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday. She will spend her birthday detained in the notorious Insein Prison.
On May 18th Aung San Suu Kyi was put on trial, charged with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an American man, John Yettaw, swam [...]
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AFP – Myanmar court allows Suu Kyi witness appeal: lawyer
AFP – Suu Kyi trial lawyers in last-ditch witness bid
Reuters – U.N.’s Ban urged to help free Myanmar prisoners
AP – Fewer become refugees but many who do find trouble
AP – Thai PM: Arrested Rohingyas not likely terrorists
EP - Press Release: President Pöttering [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s highest court said Wednesday it will allow a final appeal by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s defense lawyers for the reinstatement of two key witnesses at her trial, her lawyer said.
Defense lawyer Nyan Win called the ruling “good news” and said the High Court was expected to [...]