17jul11 PDF – _520_ Martyr’s Day Will Haunt Them
Ko Ko Aung

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17jul11 PDF – _519_From Ne’Win to Than Shwe
Ko Ko Aung

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- Franz Fischler
Franz Fischler is a former European commissioner for agriculture, rural development, and fisheries, and was also Austria’s agriculture minister.
VIENNA – Of the world’s almost seven billion people, about one billion are starving, owing to a long list of unfortunate local events and circumstances, together with steadily increasing demand, [...]

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- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Program at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
BENGHAZI – Middle Eastern autocrats routinely warn their people of rivers of blood, Western occupation, poverty, [...]

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AFP – Defections rattle Myanmar embassy in US
Asian Correspondent – Burma: Kachin people reject ceasefire without political talks
The Edge – Myanmar invites partners for 18 onshore oil blocks
New Kerala – Fishermen help cops to apprehend 22 Burmese inturders
Bernama – Thailand Registers Over 828,000 Migrant Workers
National Jeweler – Myanmar sees drop [...]

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InterAksyon – ASEAN sensitive to world opinion on Myanmar
IRIN – MYANMAR: Military porters “worked to death”
Reuters – Drop in sales at latest Myanmar gems fair
Asian Correspondent – Shan Women condemn Burma Army of using rape as war weapon
AsiaNews.it – Washington: another Burmese diplomat asks for political asylum
VOA News – Burmese [...]

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- Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel V. Ramos is a former president of the Philippines.
MANILA – One of the main sources of tension in Asia nowadays are the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and others have conflicting claims. In Chinese media reports, the heightened “unfriendliness” in the [...]

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July 13, 2011 08:57 PM EST |
WASHINGTON — A former Myanmar envoy in Washington says another diplomat at that mission has followed him in seeking political asylum in the United States.
Former deputy chief of mission Kyaw Win tells The Associated Press that first secretary Soe Aung defected Wednesday after he was ordered back to Myanmar.
Kyaw [...]

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Rights group slams Myanmar use of convict porters
Time Magazine – Why Being Forced into Military Labor Can Be a Death Sentence for Convicts in Burma
AlertNet – Myanmar military porter tells of abuses
Asian Correspondent – “Dead Men Walking” or Latest war crimes in Burma
IANS – India issued 770 visas on arrival to [...]

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Dead Men Walking

Convict Porters on the Front Lines in Eastern Burma

July 12, 2011

This 70-page report details abuses against convict porters including summary executions, torture, and the use of the convicts as “human shields.” The military should stop forcibly recruiting prisoners as porters and mistreating them, and those responsible for ordering or [...]

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INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE

NEWS RELEASE

[For immediate release: Tuesday, 12 July 2011]
IBAHRI calls on the world’s lawyers to
take action for justice in Burma
The Justice for Burma campaign was launched today by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI). The Campaign aims to galvanise support, primarily among the [...]

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AP/CP – Suu Kyi criticizes restoration work on ancient Myanmar temples after visit to Bagan
Asian Correspondent – Will Burma hit Wa Army as next target?
UPI – Program can protect photographers
ABC Radio Australia – Opium production peaks in Burma – UN
ASIAONE – Helicopter crash kills three: Myanmar official
Xinhua – Myanmar to [...]

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- 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 – US President Barack Obama’s announcement of the start [...]

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Dear Friends,
ALTSEAN-Burma has launched a new web section called “Regime Watch.” It is available at http://bit.ly/oXdH8K
The “Regime Watch” includes:
*Recap, statistics, and analysis of the parliamentary sessions
*Biographies of top regime officials
*List and short biographies of regime ministers at the national and local level
*Who’s who of Burma’s legislative, executive, and judicial branches
The “Regime Watch” will continue [...]

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WASBIR HUSSAIN | July 12, 2011 07:52 AM EST |
GAUHATI, India — A leading separatist group in India’s remote northeastern on Tuesday announced a unilateral cease-fire, moving closer to a peace dialogue to resolve a three-decade-old insurgency.
The United Liberation Front of Asom has been fighting since 1979 for an independent homeland for the [...]

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11jul11 Burma Unknowns

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- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – Crises, especially very severe ones, are often learning opportunities. Unfortunately, so far [...]

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- Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell is a Fellow at The Nation Institute and is a visiting fellow at Yale University. He is the author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
NEW YORK – During the four decades since the Watergate affair engulfed US President Richard Nixon, politicians have repeatedly ignored the [...]

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