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Please find attached EBO’s 24th Political Monitor report.
PM_No._24_-_08-09-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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Download PDF- Without democratic rights, democracy cannot start
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 9th, 2011 No Comments »
- Radek Sikorski
Radek Sikorski is Poland’s Foreign Minister.
WARSAW – On September 11, 2001 at three p.m., Warsaw time, I was talking on the telephone with Poland’s Consul General in New York. She informed me that two planes had hit the World Trade Center. That moment, I realized, was more than just a [...]
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- Bennett Ramberg
Bennett Ramberg served in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the George H.W. Bush Administration. He is the author of several books on international security.
LOS ANGELES – As the United States stumbles through its economic challenges at home, the pressure of world events will not subside. But America’s ability [...]
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AP – US envoy in Myanmar for talks with government
Asian Correspondent – Shining a light on Burma’s shady interlocutor
Asian Correspondent – Can new government restore peace in Burma?
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism – PCIJ joins SEAPA appeal for release of Burma VJ
BBC News – US special envoy in Burma for government [...]
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Asian Correspondent – UN should not wait and see Burma’s reform without time-bound
Bangkok Post – UN slams Burma political prisons
Aliran – Probe crimes against humanity in Burma: Asian NGOs
Asia Times Online – A democracy only in name
Forbes – Big Sucking Sound in Burma (Myanmar) is China’s Resource Grab
Press TV – [...]
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Kanbawza Win
Among the many races and different ethnic nationalities residing in Burma, Myanmar is the only ethnic race that harbours the African mentality This phrase may be galling to the Myanmar, but as an academic, we have to call “a spade a spade.” for we cannot lie. Burma still maintains the title of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- Mai Yamani
Mai Yamani’s most recent book is Cradle of Islam.
LONDON – Saudi Arabia may not have been directly implicated in the conspiracy that killed more than 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, but it has been consumed in a conspiracy of silence ever since. The Kingdom remains in sullen denial of [...]
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- Arnold Cassola
Arnold Cassola was Secretary-General of the European Green Party and a Member of Italy’s Parliament.
VALLETTA, MALTA – With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in ruins and Qaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so long. Greed for markets and money, it seems, [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Sep 8th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _578_ Bad Behaviour is No Comparison in the History
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PDF – _577_ the Ara You Can’t Pray
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DICTATOR WATCH
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Contact: Roland Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.org
AUGUST KAREN NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY SITREP
KNLAaugust2011
Sptember 7, 2011
Please forward.
We have a new post on our conflict blog, a report which covers clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army and the Burma Army, and BA abuses of Karen villagers, from July 24 through September 1.
http://www.dictatorwatch.org/KNLA/KNLAaugust2011.pdf
http://www.dictatorwatch.org/burmaconflictblog.html
The report describes twenty-five clashes, which resulted [...]
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PDF – _576_ Myanmar Country for Sale
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- Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum is Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the co-author, with Thomas L. Friedman, of That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.
WASHINGTON, DC – The terrorist attacks on [...]
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- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore.
ISLAMABAD – The 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States sent shock waves around the world from which Pakistan has still not recovered. Indeed, [...]
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- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is Director of Middle East Graduate Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK), and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.
CAIRO – Al Qaeda’s operating environment today is vastly different from the one in which it launched its most notorious [...]
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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, and the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
NEW YORK – Many people still believe that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were not just acts of political terrorism, but part of a cultural war, [...]
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- Jacob Margolies
Jacob Margolies is the General Counsel for the Americas for The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest media group. He is the author of The Negro Leagues: The Story of Back Baseball.
NEW YORK – New York is a city that forgets quickly. Teeming with ambition, its denizens are focused on getting ahead. And [...]