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DICTATOR WATCH
(www.dictatorwatch.org)
Contact: Roland Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.org
IS IT TIME FOR AN AMNESTY IN BURMA?
June 8, 2011
Please forward.
We have a new post on our conflict blog, a report which describes clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army and the Burma Army during the month of May. (We also have six different KNLA sitreps covering the month of April.)
As [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
BLOG: BURMA CONFLICT SITUATION REPORT
(www.dictatorwatch.org/burmaconflictblog.html)
1. Burma is in a state of war, and has been since January 1949. This is when Ne Win, who became the first modern dictator of the country, had his private army commit atrocities against the Karen people (Burma’s second largest ethnic group), and attack their political organizations [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on May 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Analysis and Perspective: Is CHANGE in BURMA UNTHINABLE?
By: Anna Malindog
BURMA is a homeland that has been sick and wounded for a long time. It is a land with rivers that are flowing sores. It seas and oceans is full of poisons. It is a home to men and women who are [...]
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 Feature Articles on May 9th, 2011 No Comments »
By Antonio Graceffo
“Human rights are very nice.” Quote from a Shan refugee who is a big fan of Martial Arts Odyssey.
‘I was taken in a truck, by a driver with a gun. The man was chewing Kratom leaves (a stimulant). There were twelve of us in the back of the van. Not all were Shan. [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on May 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
Burma Online Centre
Taungpyarthan on May 2, 2011
Dictatorship like Burmese military regime has become the modern fascist of the 21st century. The people of Burma have been totally controlled by the military junta with the ideology of totalitarianism. Burma with consist of different ethnic nationalities had been united as a federal [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 26th, 2011 No Comments »
By Antonio Graceffo
For seven days, they were locked in a container, traveling in the back of a truck, with no idea where they were going, they may just as well have been sold into slavery or prostitution at the end. But their situation in Burma was so dire that even taking such a risk seemed [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Burmese Intellect in Exile (Part 2) Will Democracy ever come to Burma?
By Antonio Graceffo
“In Burma, the uprising could happen any time, and form anywhere. All of the people are angry. Now, we are afraid. But like a volcano, it could explode at any time.” Burmese intellect in exile.
Antonio: Why did SPDC release Aung San Suu [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese, Feature Articles on Apr 15th, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 15th, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 14th, 2011 No Comments »
http://mizzima.com/edop/opinion/5149-grasping-at-straws-icgs-latest-report-is-ill-informed-unsubstantiated-and-wrong-headed.html
Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:48 Benedict Rogers
The latest report from International Crisis Group (ICG), Myanmar’s Post-Election Landscape, is one of the most extraordinary documents I have read in a long time. Rarely have I seen such naïve and ill-considered analysis from an otherwise highly-respected and intelligent organisation.
Riddled with inconsistencies [...]
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 Feature Articles on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
http://www.dvb.no/analysis/is-it-a-crime-to-write-a-book/15199
By BENEDICT ROGERS
Published: 7 April 2011
Benedict Rogers reads from his biography of Than Shwe at the FCCT in Bangkok
In the moments before I met Burma’s military intelligence for the first time, I could feel something in the atmosphere. It was intangible, but something did not feel right. When I came downstairs at [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 4th, 2011 No Comments »
http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21069&page=1
By BENEDICT ROGERS
Monday, April 4, 2011
Just before 11 pm on my last night in Rangoon, I sat down in the hotel bar to relax and listen to some jazz. Five minutes later, however, I heard the words that everyone in Burma dreads: “Mr Rogers, the authorities want to speak to [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 4th, 2011 No Comments »
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/opinion/04iht-edrogers04.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
By BENEDICT ROGERS
Published: April 3, 2011
I now know what it feels like for dissidents in Burma, when the authorities knock on the door late at night. In my case, I was treated civilly, but I know that if I had been Burmese it would have been far, far worse.
I had been [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese, Feature Articles on Apr 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in Feature Articles on Mar 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Will Democracy ever come to Burma?
By Antonio Graceffo
“Now we have a parliament, but what kind of parliament? What will they do for us?” The generals have simply changed their uniforms. “They just want to legitimize, to appear to have democracy.”
I recently had the opportunity to interviewing a Burmese intellectual in self-imposed exile, working for exile [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Mar 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Monday, 14 February 2011 15:11 Mizzima News
Lieutenant General Yawd Serk, the leader of the Shan State Army-South, talks with Mizzima. Jai Wan Mai asks him about his split with drug trafficker Kun Sa, the DKBA army, how to stop the drug trade, is the SSA preparing for war, the importance [...]