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Burma court allows Suu Kyi witness appeal
Burma’s top court agreed on Wednesday to hear an appeal by Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers to reinstate two witnesses at her trial, as United Nations experts poured fresh scorn on the ruling junta’s case a…
Mail and Guardian
Myanmar Supreme Court considers more witnesses in Suu Kyi case [...]
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Media Release from Burma Campaign UK
For immediate release 17th June 2009
Around 15 schoolchildren and young men have been beaten, and some hospitalised, after Burmese Army soldiers went on a rampage through Mayan village in Kachin State, Burma.
According to Burma Campaign UK sources, the attacks happened after youths in the village prevented soldiers from gang-raping a [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
Recent Karen Exodus Raises Questions about UNHCR Role
China Adds ‘Democracy,’ ‘Economic Growth’ to Burma Policy
Suu Kyi Trial Plagued by ‘Flagrant’ Rights Violations, UN Says
680,000 signatures delivered to UN chief
Dig We Must
It’s not too late to rescue Burma from further tragedy
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to visit Myanmar in July
Burmese High Court to Hear Aung San Suu [...]
Posted in Book Club on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Please click the following link to read ACTIVISM written by Roland O. Watson.
http://www.activism101.org/ActivismGuide.pdf
Table of Contents:
Forward
1. Introduction
2. Opposition 101
3. Activist causes
4. Institutional tactics against activists
5. Activist tactics – general issues
6. Thirteen types of activism
7. Activism and the media
8. Advanced activist issues
9. Activism and the law
10. Introduction to chaos theory
11. Social evolution and chaos
12. Activist ethics
13. Social [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
It is time to treat Than Shwe as the war criminal that he is, and hold a commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity, writes Benedict Rogers.
Benedict Rogers
Published: 10:49AM BST 17 Jun 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s imprisoned Democracy leader, will turn 64 on Friday Photo: Reuters
Within the past month, two new shocking [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
by Hassan Abbas
- Hassan Abbas, a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, is author of Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America’s War on Terror.
CAMBRIDGE – As its army confronts, ever more bloodily, the Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan is fighting [...]
Posted in Statements on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Statement by Karen Community Based Organizations (KCBOs) on SPDC-DKBA Offensive
June 17, 2009
Burmese military attacks its people in order to secure power in 2010
The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) attacked the Karen National Liberated Army Brigade 7 since the beginning of June. This has forced about 3,500 villagers [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Naomi Wolf
NEW YORK – North Americans of my generation grew up with the 1970’s children’s record “Free to Be…You and Me,” on which Rosey Grier, an immense former football star, sang “It’s Alright to Cry.” The message: girls could be tough, and boys were allowed not to [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Paul Salem
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s voters have handed a clear defeat to the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance. In a smoothly run and peaceful election, the pro-Western March 14 alliance emerged with a clear majority of 71 seats, compared to 58 seats for its rivals. The results elicited a [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
FBR REPORT: : Karen State, Burma : 15 June, 2009
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
Naw Pay, 18, Naw Wah Lah, 17, raped and killed
Headman of Htee To Kaw village and five of his friends captured, feared dead
DKBA orders villagers who have fled to Thailand [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
Reuters – Suu Kyi trial flouts justice, UN investigators say
Reuters – U.S. says financial crisis adds to human trafficking
Reuters – China to build Myanmar oil, gas lines from Sept -media
AP – US expands human trafficking watchlist
AFP – World disaster toll faces new threat from global warning: Red Cross
Bloomberg – China to Start Work on Myanmar [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
poem by Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Please join the Global Justice Center for the Opening Reception for Invisible Lives – Documenting the Exiles of Burma’s Sixty-Year War
Co-Sponsored by the Global Justice Center, Burma Border Projects, Ibis Reproductive Health
Thursday, June 18th, 6-8 pm
powerHouse Books, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for the opening reception of a remarkable book and photo show featuring images of [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Former political prisoners and human rights activists delivered a petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, demanding he make it his personal priority to secure the release of all Burma’s political prisoners. Almost 680,000 signatures were collected in just ten weeks in the largest global coordinated action for Burma yet.
“My message to Mr. Ban Ki-moon is [...]
Posted in Interviews on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
June 2009
Thai PM Abhisit on Burma and Asean
by Haseenah Koyakutty
Posted June 16, 2009
Haseenah Koyakutty, a freelance Southeast Asia correspondent, spoke recently with the Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejajjiva. The exclusive interview dealt largely with how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should handle the junta in Myanmar in the wake of the recent [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Burma News on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Aung San Suu Kyi
16 June 2009 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today called on the authorities of Myanmar to ensure an “open and fair” trial for opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her two aides.
“So far, the trial of Aung [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Burmese Activists Ask Ban Ki-moon for Help
Former Burmese political prisoners have delivered a petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on him to seek the release of all Burmese political prisoners including opposition leader Aung …
The Irrawaddy
Construction of Sino-Myanmar oil-and-gas pipelines to begin in Sept.
BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhua) — The construction of [...]