Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 14th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under- Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India.
NEW DELHI – India-Pakistan relations – a challenge at the [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 14th, 2011 No Comments »
BBC News – EU eases Burma sanctions on some civilian ministers
Asian Correspondent – EU must seriously watch Burma’s human rights abuses while relaxing sanctions
IRIN – THAILAND-MYANMAR: Concern over refugee camp closure plans
IANS – Six Myanmarese men held in Tripura, sent to jail
Hornbill Unleashed – Detained and deported by Burma, sued [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Apr 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Major Chinese & Korean Companies Linked to Rights Abuses in Burma
On March 29th, we released a damning report linking major Chinese and Korean companies to widespread land confiscation, and cases of forced labor, arbitrary arrest, detention and torture, and violations of indigenous rights connected to the Shwe natural gas project and [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Apr 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Kanbawza Win
The people of Burma especially the middle age person who had gone through the Burmese Socialist days clearly understands the psyche and rationale of the Burmese Generals who construe themselves that they are the only ones, that really love the country while the rest are parasites that does not harbour a pale of [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Apr 13th, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in Burma News on Apr 13th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – US urges Myanmar to free political prisoners
AP – Thai PM says Myanmar refugees will be sent back only when it’s safe for them at home
CP/AP – As US prepares to appoint special envoy, it urges Myanmar to free political prisoners
AFP – Canadian released in Myanmar after illegal border crossing
AFP [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
For Immediate Release 12th April 2011
EU Maintains Burma Sanctions
Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the decision by EU Foreign Ministers to renew European Union (EU) economic sanctions on Burma for a further year.
EU Foreign Ministers met today to make the Council Decision on EU Burma policy, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- Heather Grabbe and Kori Udovicki
Heather Grabbe is Director of the Open Society Institute-Brussels. Kori Udovicki is Regional Director for Europe and the CIS at the United Nations Development Program.
BRUSSELS – The European Union, at long last, is taking a significant step to improve the lives of Europe’s millions of Roma. [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
CAMBRIDGE – Not long ago, a Harvard colleague wrote to me that Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, a son of Libya’s dictator, would be in town and wanted to [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Raül Romeva i Rueda Member of the European Parliament together with Geneva Call, DCA Mine Action and the Euro Burma Office are pleased to invite you to a briefing on the
Humanitarian Impact of Landmines in BURMA
Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:00 to 17:30
European Parliament, Room [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
- Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and the author of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India, and Japan (Harper Paperbacks, 2010) and Water: Asia’s New Battlefield (Georgetown University Press, 2011).
NEW DELHI – Will “mission creep” in the West’s intervention in Libya [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
AP/CP – Likely new US envoy to Myanmar is expected to foster regional diplomacy to press for reforms
AP – US set to appoint envoy to revive Myanmar policy
AFP – Thailand wants to close Myanmar refugee camps
AFP – US senators urge N.Korea-Myanmar probe
Bernama – Singapore, Myanmar Reaffirm Stand To Strengthen Bilateral [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
WASHINGTON -President Barack Obama plans to name a special envoy to Myanmar who is expected to seek more help from the repressive government’s neighbors in pressing for democratic reform. Building agreement on the best way to proceed will be tricky.
Southeast Asian nations have called for lifting sanctions, which the U.S. still opposes, while regional powers [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 11th, 2011 1 Comment »
“It is also the time now for all the people of the union of Burma to decide their own fate rather than keeping it in the hands of the successive Burmese military dictators”
The political turmoil of the union of Burma started its conception since the Panglong agreement in 1947. As if the Shan foresaw the [...]
Posted in Documentary Video on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Follow Antonio Graceffo, as he meets with a group of displaced Shan migrant workers in a makeshift camp, in Thailand. The war in Burma has been going since 1962. While hundreds die each month and thousands are made homeless, millions have fled to Thailand. As undocumented aliens, they struggle to eek out some type of [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Apr 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Alert on Apr 9th, 2011 No Comments »
DICTATOR WATCH
(www.dictatorwatch.org)
Contact: Roland Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.org
ALERT: PRO-MILITARY REGIME BURMA CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON
April 8, 2011
Please forward.
(Note: We are pleased to report that we have passed 10,000 downloads of the Burmese translation of Lessons in Democracy, and also 10,000 downloads of the translations for Zimbabwe. For Burma, copies of the translation have additionally been printed [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 9th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 8 April, 2011
On 2 April 2011, KNPP FBR Karenni team member Khu Neh Reh died of wounds sustained from a landmine explosion. Neh Reh had been treating patients at Tee Lon village just prior to the explosion. The mine [...]