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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College. His latest book, Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, has just been published [...]
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- Jamie F. Metzl
Jamie Metzl is Executive Vice President of the Asia Society and Project Director of the Asia Society Task Force on Afghanistan-Pakistan.
NEW YORK – President Obama’s recent trip to Afghanistan [...]
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31Mar10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 31 March, 2010 (English & Burmese)
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Hypocrisy Replaces Hope after the NLD Decision
Strong earthquake hits off Myanmar
Ramdev set to take Indian yoga to Myanmar, Pakistan
US senators seek tighter sanctions against Myanmar [...]
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AP – Report: US must avoid legitimizing Myanmar vote
AFP – US senators seek tighter Myanmar sanctions
Wheaton Gazette – Continuing the political fight for the Burmese
Calcutta Telegraph – Indo-Myanmar highway to better ties
The Economist – Myanmar’s crushed opposition Whether ’tis nobler
AsiaNews.it – Burmese leader fears harsh [...]
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4 novices, two teenage girls killed in bomb explosion
S.H.A.N. Tuesday, 30 March 2010 09:47 Hseng Khio Fah
Four young novices and two teenage girls in southern Shan State were killed in a bomb explosion caused by junta troops last week, according to local sources.
The two girls [...]
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FBR REPORT:
Ler Doh Township, Nyaunglebin District, Western Karen State 26 March, 2010
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW
On the 22rd of March, at 4:30 PM, Burma Army troops from LIB 369 entered Kaw Hta village, Ler Doh Township and shot and killed 1 woman and 2 children. Troops [...]
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30Mar10 Mar30NLDSupportStatement
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OFFICE OF THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
KAREN NATIONAL UNION
KAWTHOOLEI
KNU Statement affirming Full Support for Decision of NLD
March 31, 2010
1. We the Karen National Union (KNU) earnestly and fully support decision of the National League for Democracy (NLD) not to register as a political party under the unjust laws and 2008 [...]
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Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 3, covering 23-29 March:
Developments
The NLD announced it would not register as a political party to contest the upcoming elections. NLD spokesman Nyan Win said the party decided not to register because the SPDC election laws were “unfair and unjust.”
Burma’s Supreme Court refused to accept the [...]
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WASHINGTON -The Obama administration’s new engagement strategy with Myanmar risks allowing the country’s military leaders to use direct talks to justify already flawed elections expected this year, a bipartisan report warns.
The report Wednesday from the Asia Society, a leading think tank, supports U.S. efforts to press the generals who have ruled Myanmar for decades to [...]
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By Michael Busch, March 25, 2010
Nearly 50 years after a military-led coup overthrew Burma’s last democratically elected government, the Southeast Asian country has suffered some of the world’s most egregious human rights abuses. For activists, Burma has become synonymous with institutionalized rape, torture, forced labor, and ethnic cleansing. In the popular imagination, however, the enormity [...]
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This is an extract from the from the Foreign Policy in Focus Vol 5 No 13, just release, to proves that how little Burma matters to the US Policy Makers
Colombia, Cuba, Burma
The United States and the UN have both praised the congressional elections that took place in Colombia in the middle of March. But FPIF [...]
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30Mar10 Burma Opposition Party to Boycott Election (Burmese)
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- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is Secretary General of NATO.
BRUSSELS – Next week in Prague, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama will sign a new strategic arms [...]
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- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
COPENHAGEN – The past decade [...]
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Obama Administration Says Engagement With Burma Will Continue Despite Deepening Political Crisis
NLD not to re-register with Election Commission
Suu Kyi party to boycott Burma [...]
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