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Links to information and news on Burma and the movement for peace and democracy in that country.
Updated on Apr 11, 09
Created on Mar 31, 09
Category: Government & Politics
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Peter Dearman's List: Burma
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Nov 09, 07
The importance of the internet to Burmese cause.
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In 'The Irrawaddy's' case alone, the site (www.irrawaddy.org)registered 40 million hits, with over 100,000 unique visitors a month. Then, Aung Zaw related, on the same day when the government shut down the Internet in Burma, a virus also attacked the magazine site. It was a classic case of cyber-attack, he noted. The popularity of the Internet and the people's desperation to get the news out were such that, ‘The Irrawaddy' got over 1,000 images from Burma, in one week in September.
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Former Canadian Deputy Speaker of the House (and numerous other titles at the highest level), David Kilgour, was on hand to question how a regime responsible for atrocities in China, Darfur, Zimbabwe, Tibet and Burma could be allowed to host the 2008 Olympics. Kilgour is co-author of Bloody Harvest, a comprehensive that verified the allegations of forced organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in China. He spent a few days in Israel in which he met members of Parliament, law experts, and other public figures in Israel to tell them about his report and about his knowledge of the human right abuses in China
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Sep 20, 08
CSM stays on the Burma issue.
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A simple museum tucked away on the Thai-Burmese border re-creates the infamous prisons.
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Sep 20, 08
Good idea. If Taiwan can be kicked out of the UN, why not Burma?
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When the United Nations considers the petition to strip Burma's junta of their seat in the international body's General Assembly, the United Nations should act on the appeal as an opportunity to jumpstart a flailing mediation process.
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Oct 14, 07
The mainstream media machine is failing to report the current news from Burma/Myanmar fairly.
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If you tell the truth seldom enough, and without conviction, the people will not believe it. The mainstream media machine is failing to report the current news from Burma/Myanmar fairly; it is also covering its own ass against exactly this accusation.
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Kar Kar Pancha, who said he once did business with junta leaders, said friends in the military told him of soldiers dropping their guns to worship protesting monks in Mandalay and of an army commander in Yangon who refused to shoot at demonstrators Sept. 19 unless they turned violent. The specific incidents could not be independently confirmed, but a number of protesters reported similar reactions by soldiers.
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