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Feraya’s World by Feraya Ullathorne | Make Your Own Book
This just published this book with some of Feraya’s paintings with relevant information on Shan State, Burma, including various personal subjects. If you like the paintings, and would like to help a good cause, you are very welcome to [...]
Posted in Book Club on Jun 9th, 2011 No Comments »
AVAILABLE NOW FROM VOICE OF WITNESS
NOWHERE TO BE HOME: NARRATIVES FROM SURVIVORS OF BURMA’S MILITARY REGIME
Edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoë West
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The seventh volume in the Voice of Witness series presents the narratives of former political prisoners and refugees from Burma. Decades of military oppression in Burma have led [...]
Posted in Book Club on Oct 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
This book is a damning account of the twists and tricks of racists in Burma, including the SPDC, to pervert the history of Arakan to dehumanise the Rohingya people. It comprises a number of scholarly and assorted articles by Dr. Abid Bahar who has researched the plight of the Rohingya people since 1978, when he [...]
Posted in Book Club on Jul 30th, 2010 No Comments »
by Antonnio Graceffo
This book release, written by my publisher, is about my new book, Warrior Odyssey (available at www.blackbeltmag.com/warrior_odyssey) which covers my first many years in Asia. Although the book is told from a martial arts perspective, I tried to include as much about the conflict in Burma as possible, to help bring attention and [...]
Posted in Book Club on Apr 29th, 2010 No Comments »
AFP – Suu Kyi asks court to stop party dissolution
AP – US panel names 13 countries as religious violators
AP – Myanmar TV says pro-junta group registers for vote
UPI – Activists say Myanmar still too repressive
Reuters AlertNet – Repression continues, humanitarian space narrowing in Myanmar – report
EarthTimes – [...]
Posted in Book Club on Apr 2nd, 2010 1 Comment »
Henri-André Aye has written a personal history of Shan State in Burma, focusing on the political issues, particularly those that his father was involved with, as well as providing many important aspects of culture and history of the Shan States (as the 34 principalities were known before independence). Henri-André’s father Namkham U Htun Aye was [...]
Posted in Book Club on Mar 26th, 2010 No Comments »
26Mar10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 26 March, 2010 (English & Burmese)
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Page Bingham holds a prawn as it would be eaten in Myanmar, with her fingers, enhancing the flavor of the food. It’s cooked with chilies and tamarind. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)
By Omar Sacirbey Globe Correspondent [...]
Posted in Book Club on Dec 25th, 2009 No Comments »
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Myanmar political prisoner dies in jail
Today, December 25, 2009, 5 hours ago
Yangon – A 38-year-old political activist who participated in the “Saffron Revolution” of 2007 has died in a Myanmar jail where she was serving a [...]
Posted in Book Club on Dec 15th, 2009 2 Comments »
Mizzima : by Mungpi Monday, 14 December 2009 23:39
In nearly two decades of undisputed and uninterrupted rule, Burma’s military supremo Senior General Than Shwe is certainly going down in the history of Burma as one man, who has vigorously contributed to the collapse of the Burmese economy, failure of the society, catered [...]
Posted in Book Club on Nov 16th, 2009 No Comments »
SWAN Press release
A guidebook launched today gives tourists an alternative view of Shan State by providing a pictorial exposé of the deliberate neglect, destruction and reinvention of local cultural and historical sites.
The majority of war-torn Shan State is off limits to tourists, but some areas are open to foreign travelers. Forbidden Glimpses of Shan State, [...]
Posted in Book Club on Oct 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Click here to read the whole document:- prospect 4 a democratic future
Format:Trade Paperback
Published:January 5, 1998
Dimensions:275 Pages, 5.95 x 8.97 in
Publisher:Brookings Institution Press
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN – 10:0815775814
ISBN – 13:9780815775812
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Since Burma’s current military rulers took power in 1989, this pivotal, troubled, and bitterly divided Southeast Asian nation has rejected important [...]
Posted in Book Club on Oct 10th, 2009 No Comments »
(This book covers the development of the Tatmadaw in Burma up to 1962, with unprecedented access to the military archives in Rangoon. Mary Callahan seeks to explain the extraordinary durability of the Burmese military regime. In her view, the origins of army rule are to be found in the relationship between war and state formation.
This [...]
Posted in Book Club on Oct 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
The International Criminal Court (ICC) came into existence in 2002. The ICC has been hailed by international community as a valuable instrument to combat impunity for serious international crimes.
Regardless of the very high hope and expectations of ICC enthusiasts, there is an intense debate going on between ICC’s opponents and proponents over its legitimacy and [...]
Posted in Book Club on Sep 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Available from Umbrage Books : Review by Roland Watson : September 20, 2009
There has been a growing tendency in recent decades, particularly in diplomatic affairs involving the United States, European Union and Australia, to downplay the extent of the human rights abuses committed in China. The argument behind the position is that the new [...]
Posted in Book Club on Sep 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Burma Digest publication
Challenges ahead on Burma’s Road to ICC
Universal Jurisdiction versus National Sovereignty & other issues
(Picture on front cover is courtesy of Thierry Falise.)
Recently, human rights activists inside and outside of Burma are calling the International Criminal Court to investigate human right crimes being committed, and have been [...]
Posted in Book Club on Aug 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I was flattered as well as apprehensive when Bernice Johnson requested that I should write a review on her book. Flattered because it is such an outstanding and important book, but apprehensive because I may not be able to be objective about it, being a Shan, and knowing the suffering of the Shan people, and [...]