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PRESS STATEMENT
24 September 2009
BURMA
A week after releasing a new report; On the Edge of Survival: The Continuing Rat Infestation and Food Crisis in Chin State, Burma, Chin Human Rights Organisation (CHRO) Executive Director Salai Bawi Lian Mang is in London briefing British Parliamentarians. On 23 September, Salai Bawi Lian Mang met with [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar – Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi welcomes a U.S. initiative to step up contacts with Myanmar’s military government, a spokesman for her political party said Thursday.
Nyan Win, spokesman for the National League for Democracy party, said Suu Kyi agreed with plans announced by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton [...]
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Lachlan CarmichaelThe Obama administration, sketching out a new policy toward Myanmar, pledged to engage diplomatically with the country’s military rulers in a bid to promote democratic reform there.
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by Brahma Chellaney
- Brahma Chellaney, Professor of strategic studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, is the author, most recently, of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan.
NEW DELHI – America’s war in Afghanistan is approaching a tipping point, with doubts about President Barack Obama’s strategy growing. Yet, after dispatching [...]
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Media Advisory
Pray for Peace in front of Burmese embassy
26 September 2009
What? Why?
On the occasion of the 2nd year anniversary of the Saffron Revolution when the military junta was brutally crushed monks and civilians who made a peaceful protest, 15 Burmese monks as members of All Burma Monks Alliance (ABMA) together with Thai and Burmese activists, [...]
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AP – Myanmar accuses American of planning unrest
AP – Thai leader says US moving toward engaging Myanmar
AP – Myanmar PM heads to UN for first visit in 14 years
AFP – Suu Kyi party ‘welcomes Myanmar amnesty’
Washington Post – Visit by Burmese Official Hints at U.S. Policy Shift
The National – Myanmar [...]
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· OPINION ASIA
· SEPTEMBER 23, 2009, 5:14 P.M. ET
Tokyo’s policy toward the junta is ripe for review.
· By BENEDICT ROGERS AND YUKI AKIMOTO
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will have much on his agenda in his first few months in office in Tokyo. One particular area crying out for change [...]
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S.H.A.N. Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:29
All militia groups formed by the Burma Army have been sanctioned to expand their forces since relations between Naypyitaw and the ethnic armed groups that had been at truce have worsened, according to reports coming from northern Shan State.
The Manpang militia led by Bo Mon in Tangyan township, [...]
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US changes tack on Myanmar By MATTHEW LEE, AP
UNITED NATIONS -Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the Obama administration has decided to engage in direct high-level talks with Myanmar’s junta as part of international efforts to promote democracy in the military-run state.
Clinton made the announcement at the United Nations after meeting with [...]
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Myanmar accuses American of planning unrest AP
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PRINT|E-MAILMOREText SizeAAAYANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar on Wednesday accused a Myanmar-born American who was secretly detained three weeks ago of seeking to incite political unrest.
State television news said Kyaw [...]
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by Kofi A. Annan, Amartya Sen and Michel Camdessus
- Kofi Annan, a former secretary-general of the United Nations, is chair of the Africa Progress Panel. Amartya Sen is a Nobel Prize-winning economist. Michel Camdessus is a former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
PITTSBURGH – Almost six months [...]
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Media Release From Burma Campaign UK : For Immediate Release 23rd September 2009
The Burma Campaign UK is deeply concerned by reports it has received from Kachin and Karen State of a serious unknown disease which is particularly affecting children. Almost 2,000 people have contracted the illness so far, and symptoms in both states are [...]
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POLITICS-BURMA: Junta Up to Its Old Tricks, Plays with the West
Myanmar’s monks under close watch
US, Burma Look for Win-win Situation: Analysts
Arakan Youth Arrested
Than Shwe’s Grandson: Geek, Playboy or Gangster?
Junta attempts to revive outdated Labour Ministry
Heightened security in Shan south
Four journalists released under Myanmar junta’s amnesty
The Meaning of the Junta’s Amnesty
US engaging Myanmar: Abhisit
Myanmar PM to [...]
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The Meaning of the Junta’s Amnesty
Daw San and many monks and nuns were arrested unjustly without any apparent charges and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for the crime of marching and chanting Buddha’s teaching of “loving ki…
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Index on Censorship
21 Sep 2009
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of its seizure of power, Burma’s military on 18 September decided to release some of the country’s 2,200 political prisoners. I first hear the news when a writer, May Nyein, whose is a refugee in Washington, contacts me by GTtalk saying she’s been trying to get [...]
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