Posted in Statements on May 20th, 2011 No Comments »
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KAREN NATIONAL UNION
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KNU Statement on Bombing near Capital of Burma’s Dictators
Date : 19/5/2011
In an Agence France Press (AFP) report, datelined May 18, a bomb blast killed two and wounded seven civilians near billion-dollar, custom-built capital (Naypyitaw) of Burma’s military dictators and military [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on May 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Zarganar.
I chose to do him in caricature style similar to the approach I used in my sculptures of the Moustache Brothers. I think it is a fitting style for someone so well known as a comic, satirist and entertainer. Also I hope it captures his energy, humanity, good humor and compassion.
I will follow [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 19th, 2011 No Comments »
- Javier Solana and Angel Saz
Javier Solana, formerly the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, and a former Secretary General of NATO, is President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo). Angel Saz is Coordinator of ESADEgeo.
MADRID – The Mediterranean is undergoing a monumental political [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 16th Political Monitor report.
19may11 PM_No._16_-_18-05-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 19th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – US envoy meets Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
AP – Rare jewelry auctions set record prices in Geneva
PTI – Myanmarese prisoners set free
Reuters – China Mobile says looking at buying opportunities in Asia emerging mkts
ABS-CBNNEWS – Myanmar’s new president to visit China
Xinhua – Senior U.S. diplomat meets Myanmar FM
Monsters and Critics – [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on May 19th, 2011 1 Comment »
By Antonio Graceffo
“In the history books in Burma they change everything. If they can change history it’s not HISTORY. It is THEIR story.” Burmese refugee in Malaysia.
“The first time I came to Malaysia I see the Malaysia is very freedom. You want to go somewhere you can go, no one block your way.” Said a [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on May 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Download PDF – Despite declaring an amnesty
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 18th, 2011 No Comments »
- Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
GENEVA – As the United Nations Conference on Disarmament begins a seven-week session in Geneva, its future is on the line. Whereas countries and civil-society initiatives are on the move, the Conference has stagnated. Its credibility – indeed, its very legitimacy – is [...]
Posted in Statements on May 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Statement By 20 Members Of The European Burma Network On The Crisis In Shan State
18th May 2011
On 13th March 2011 the dictatorship in Burma broke a 22 year long ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Army – North. 3,500 Burmese Army soldiers took part in a military offensive in north-central Shan State, [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 18th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – US envoy holds talks with new Myanmar government
AFP – Myanmar frees thousands in ‘pathetic’ jail-term cut
AP – Bomb on Myanmar train kills 2, injures 7
AP – UK cautions ASEAN from allowing Myanmar leadership
UPI – Rights group: Let political inmates go
Straits Times – Only 47 political prisoners freed in [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – How the mighty International Monetary Fund has fallen. More than a decade ago, the [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
May 17, 2011 07:55 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar is releasing more than 14,600 prisoners under a clemency program that includes just a few political prisoners, one of them a hip-hop singer.
Prison Department Director General Zaw Win said most of the convicts, including 2,166 women, would be freed Tuesday from jails around the [...]
Posted in Statements on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Date: 17 May, 2011
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) denounces the prisoner amnesty, announced 16 May by the new Thein Sein administration, as a ploy to appease the international community.
Under this so-called ‘amnesty’, outlined in order No. 28/2011, prisoners on death row will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
17may11 PDF – _491_ Imitation Freedom for Prisoner
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Burma News on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
White House – Notice from the President regarding the annual renewal of the national emergency with respect to Burma
AP – Myanmar president announces clemency for prisoners
AFP – Myanmar announces limited cut to jail terms
AFP – US renews Myanmar sanctions
UPI – U.N. wants more action from Myanmar
Inner City Press – On Myanmar, as [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Shan State, Burma May, 2011
Dear Friends,
On May 3rd, 2011 four new Shan relief teams completed their training in southern Shan State, Burma. The training, conducted by Karen, Karenni, Kachin and Shan Free Burma Ranger trainers, covered subjects including reporting, medical care, [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Myanmar prisoner clemency slammed as ‘pathetic’
May 17, 2011 12:46 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s long-expected clemency program for prisoners was slammed as a “pathetic response” to foreign calls to set more than 2,000 political detainees free.
President Thein Sein signed a “general amnesty” order on humanitarian grounds commuting death sentences to life imprisonment and [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on May 16th, 2011 No Comments »
16may11 Generations of the Revolution