Saffron Revolution against a Beastly Government (Burmese)
Posted in Editorials on Sep 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
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One year on…
Posted in Editorials on Sep 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
By Tai Samyone
Remember the rush of euphoria when the people of Burma began a protest, the monks took to the streets in support, 100,000 monks protested against the evil SPDC regime and their incompetent, uncaring despotic dictates? We actually thought that this was the beginning of the downfall of the corrupt degenerate tyranny that […]
The Saffron Revolution
Posted in Editorials on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
by Feraya Nangmone
“Thabeik Mauk
Each man silently remembers the same history, that of hunger strikers from hundreds of years ago, members of the holy sangha. When the monks waited to protest, the corruption and violence of the king and his minions, they paraded through the streets with their alms bowls turned upside down. By […]
Junta should start serving people’s interest (Burmese Editorial)
Posted in Editorials on Jun 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
Ali Ba Ba and Four Hundred Thousand Thieves (Guest Editorial)
Posted in Editorials on Jun 7th, 2008 7 Comments »
_ by Prof. Kanbawza Win
Abhorrence and horrified, the international community look on at the unfolding of modern Arabian Knights in changing the Burmese natural disaster into a human catastrophe. Not that the words of Edmund Burke, an 18th century Anglo Irish philosopher words, “All that necessary for the evil to triumph is for good men […]
Reconstructing after Cyclone Nargis
Posted in Editorials on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Tai Samyone
As we reach the point of three weeks after the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, the international NGOs and aid agencies are only now gaining limited access to the delta area that was so badly affected1.
Yet the SPDC regime continues its pathetic propaganda stating that the immediate relief effort is completed and that […]
International Community, please do not desert us (Letter to Editor)
Posted in Editorials on Feb 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Dear Editor,
I am the blood brother of Myo Yan Naung Thein who was arrested in 14th December 2007. I am from Burma and currently living in UK. Despite the call for national reconciliation in Burma, military junta defy it by arresting high profile student leaders. Although, junta promised to Mr Ibraham Gambari in his last […]
The Most Prominent Burmese Politicians of 2007 (Burmese)
Posted in Editorials on Dec 25th, 2007 6 Comments »
Who is the Burma Digest person of the year? (English)
Posted in Editorials on Dec 23rd, 2007 14 Comments »
This year will be remembered for the summer of the Saffron Revolution, or perhaps more the Saffron Protest, because there has been no ‘revolution’ in the sense of change in the political power structure of Burma. There has of course been a revolution in the willingness of a long persecuted and downtrodden people to stand […]