Posted in Feature Articles, Interviews on Aug 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Monday, August 15, 2011
The resumption of clashes between Burmese troops and the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North), a former ceasefire group, since earlier this year has resulted in the displacement of more than 30,000 people, according to a press statement released last week by Shan human rights groups. [...]
Posted in Interviews on May 27th, 2010 No Comments »
http://www.dvb. no/interview/ yawd-serk- ethnic-armies- are-closer/ 9159
By TOE ZAW LATT
Published: 25 May 2010
Thousands converged at the headquarters of the Shan State Army (South) in Doi Tai Leng on 21 May to celebrate the 52nd Shan Resistance Day and 10-year anniversary of Restoration Council for Shan State. The SSA-S is one of [...]
Posted in Feature Articles, Interviews on May 7th, 2010 No Comments »
“If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen to side with the oppressor.”
Garrett Kostin, an American citizin who runs The Best Friend Library in Chiang Mai, Thailand and who is involved in the peaceful struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma, recently visited Burma as a tourist. Once inside, he [...]
Posted in Interviews on Dec 4th, 2009 No Comments »
-Interview with U Win Tin – Part 1, by Elke Kujper for The Best Friend
In 1989 he was sentenced to prison for the first time. Without any valid proof of having committed a crime. He was released in September 2008, almost twenty years later. Even though he does not see it that way himself: [...]
Posted in Interviews on Oct 9th, 2009 1 Comment »
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Posted in Interviews on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
- Interview with Ashin Issariya/ King Zero, by Alexandra Rösch for The Best Friend | 27.9.2009
TBF: The Burmese monks have demanded the military junta to apologize for the killing and insulting of monks and the religion not later than October 2, 2009 or face the consequences of excommunication starting on October 3, 2009. How [...]
Posted in Interviews on Sep 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Unofficial AAPP translation of interview with Democratic Voice of Burma 23 September 2009
88 Generation Student member Myo Yan Naung Thein was released by the military government along with other prisoners. He was released from Thandwe prison in Arakan State. 35 year-old Myo Yan Naung Thein has suffered severely from a [...]
Posted in Interviews on Sep 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
Click image for link to interview in Sydney Morning Herald : 16 Sep
Exiled Burmese monk King Zero, one of the instigators of the 2007 Saffron Revolution, forewarns further democracy rallies in Burma. Unless the ruling military junta apologises for killing and imprisoning monks by October 2, King Zero says monks will launch a boycott and [...]
Posted in Interviews on Aug 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
- Interview with King Zero, by Ashin Sopaka and Alexandra for The Best Friend | 19.08.2009
King Zero / Ashin Issariya, 34 is one of the key leading monks of Burma’s uprising against the military regime, known as the Saffron Revolution in 2007.
He is one of the few founding members of the All Burma Monks Alliance [...]
Posted in Interviews on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
- Interview with Ashin Sopaka, by Alexandra for The Best Friend | 12.08.2009
TBF: On Tuesday Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been found guilty and sentenced to 18 months under house arrest. What do you think about that?
Ashin Sopaka: I have no special feeling about the regimes decision because I already expected this [...]
Posted in Interviews on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
June 2009
Thai PM Abhisit on Burma and Asean
by Haseenah Koyakutty
Posted June 16, 2009
Haseenah Koyakutty, a freelance Southeast Asia correspondent, spoke recently with the Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejajjiva. The exclusive interview dealt largely with how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should handle the junta in Myanmar in the wake of the recent [...]
Posted in Interviews on Jun 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
For full interview, click khrg09b4.pdf
Posted in Interviews on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Daily Press Briefing
Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
April 10, 2008
BURMA
U.S. View of Draft Constitution / Serious Concerns
Claim by Burma that Foreign Governments are interfering in Internal Affairs
Aung San Suu Kyi
12:36 p.m. EDTGood afternoon.
McCormack: At this rate, Lambros, you’re going to get in, like, 10, 15 questions.
(Laughter.)
McCormack: I’m not surprised. Let’s go ahead and start off with Matt.
Q: I [...]
Posted in Interviews on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
_ By Nay Myo Wai
You may need a “Window Media Player” or “Quick-time Player” to listen.
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Posted in Interviews on Feb 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Interview with Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan
(This interview was carried out and published for first time in BURMA DIGEST last year, and now presented again here in memory of Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan, assassinated today by unkown gunmen.) .
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BURMA DIGEST: In the recent Martyr’s Day message, the KNU president called on all Karen ‘to uphold [...]
Posted in Interviews on Feb 13th, 2008 13 Comments »
Daily Press Briefing
Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
February 11, 2008
BURMA:
Referendum on Proposed Constitution
Regime’s Refusal to Engage Democratic and Ethnic Minority Representatives
Regime Defies Desires of Burmese People
MR. MCCORMACK: Good afternoon. I have a couple of opening statements here. The first one is from me. We’ll have the full statement out for you after the briefing regarding the Burmese regime [...]
Posted in Documentary Video, Interviews on Feb 10th, 2008 No Comments »
In Shanland: Interview with Colonel Yawd Serk, Commander of the Shan State Army
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_ By Antonio Graceffo
Genral Khun Sa, the original commander of the MTA Mon Tai Army, made his way onto the FBI most wanted list as the largest drug dealer in the world. The US sought to extradite him from Burma to stand trial [...]
Posted in Interviews on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Daily Press Briefing from STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. GOVERNMENT
Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 24, 2008
Joint Statement from U.S., UK, and France _ “Davos was Good Opportunity to Pressure Burmese Regime”
QUESTION: Can you discuss the origin of the Burma statement that we just received from Davos? Whose idea was it? What do you hope to – I mean, [...]