No Safe Havens for Dirty Money
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 21st, 2010 No Comments »
- Christine Lagarde , and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Christine Lagarde is [...]
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A call to End Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jun 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Burmese Rohingya Democratic Alliance (BRAD)
Press Release
Date: June 20, 2010
A call to End Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma
We, undersigned organizations warmly solutes the recent report, titled: “Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas”, launched by the Irish Center for Human Rights (ICHR), National [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – JUNE 19-21, 2010
Posted in Burma News on Jun 21st, 2010 No Comments »
AP – Death toll from Myanmar floods, landslides hits 63
AFP – Worldwide protests mark Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday
AFP – PM salutes Suu Kyi on 65th birthday
Reuters – Obama renews call for release of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
Prague Daily Monitor – Praguers address birthday congratulations to Burmese [...]
SPDC Pretend Deaf and Dumb
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 20th, 2010 No Comments »
20Jun10 PDF – _341_SPDC Pretend Deaf and Dumb
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Burma’s continuing agony
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Nobel laureate and Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi turned 65 today. She has spent 15 of the last 21 years in prison or under house arrest. There is no end to her, or her nation’s, agony in sight.
Burma, renamed Myanmar by the junta, won its independence after World War II. But popular independence [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi: a fragile heroine and a great symbol
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jun 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Prague, 19th June 2010 – On Friday 18th June 2010 several dozens of supporters of the Burmese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi gathered in the center of Prague to commemorate her birthday and to condemn her house arrest lasting for the past fifteen years. The organizers [...]
The Beautiful Game’s Ugly Blemish
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 19th, 2010 No Comments »
- Andrei S. Markovits , and Lars Rensmann
Andrei S. [...]
Translation: BURMA’S JUNTA DESECRATES ANCIENT BUDDHIST PAGODAS
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jun 19th, 2010 1 Comment »
Download – _translation_ BURMA’S JUNTA DESECRATES ANCIENT BUDDHIST PA…
Burmese Refugee’s Future
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 19th, 2010 No Comments »
19Jun10 PDF – _340_Burmese Refugee’s Future
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Aung San Suu Kyi marks birthday still under house arrest
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 19th, 2010 No Comments »
By Fred Hiatt
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Any movement from dictatorship to democracy “is likely to be prolonged and difficult,” a national leader once wrote. “Hope and optimism are irrepressible, but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious.”
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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi turns 65
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 19th, 2010 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 65th birthday Saturday locked in her dilapidated lakeside compound as global calls for her freedom erupted at rallies and prayer vigils around the world.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate plans to celebrate by providing lunch for the three dozen construction workers helping to [...]
A Hundred Weltpolitiks
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 18th, 2010 No Comments »
- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian foreign minister, finance minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
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NEW DELHI – Mao Zedong once famously called [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – JUNE 18, 2010
Posted in Burma News on Jun 18th, 2010 No Comments »
AFP – Elders leave empty chair as Aung San Suu Kyi turns 65
AFP – Suu Kyi supporters worldwide mark 65th birthday
AFP - US expert sees widening resistance to malaria drug
AP – Flooding, landslides kill nearly 60 in Myanmar
AP – UN: Zimbabweans top asylum seekers worldwide
CommonDreams. org – Aung San [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi Birthday
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jun 18th, 2010 No Comments »
On June 19 Aung San Suu Kyi will endure yet another birthday in complete isolation. The continuing incarceration of the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Laureate, reveals the regime’s inhumanity and impotency in stifling the strength of Daw Suu Kyi’s influence on the people of Burma.
It would be nice to let her [...]
Burma’s Nuclear Ambitions Must Be Quickly Defused
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 18th, 2010 No Comments »
By Nehginpao Kipgen June 17, 2010
http://www.thejakar taglobe.com/ opinion/burmas- nuclear-ambition s-must-be- quickly-defused/ 381098
The Burmese military regime’s reported desire to become a nuclear power is an alarming development for the Burmese people, especially ethnic minorities, as well as nations in pursuit of a nuclear-free world.
Al Jazeera on June 4 described how the junta [...]
HAPPY HEALTHY 65th BIRTHDAY DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jun 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Khet Mar’s New Life
Posted in Burma News on Jun 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Happenings at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh: An Update on Khet Mar’s New Life
from:- Sampsonia Way Magazine
Khet Mar and her two sons in Rangoon, Burma
Photo: © Than Htay Maung
Arriving here in March 2009, Khet Mar, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s current writer-in-residence, journeyed with her family on a 45-hour trip from her home in Rangoon, [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – JUNE 17, 2010
Posted in Burma News on Jun 17th, 2010 No Comments »
AFP – Landslides kill scores in Bangladesh and Myanmar
Reuters AlertNet – Myanmar and Bangladesh: UNHCR rescues, shelters flood victims
IRIN – BANGLADESH-MYANMAR: Rush to deliver aid to thousands after landslides
The Independent – Caught on camera: Burma’s political prisoners
ABC Radio Australia – Human rights fears for Burma’s [...]