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GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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I have up close and personal experience with boat people. My own case involved Vietnamese fleeing their country in the late ’70s. The destination was The Philippines where the government had turned what was once a tourist island in Subic Bay into a huge refugee camp. What these boat people will face is many times ...5 days ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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The military dictators of Myanmar — known under the Orwellian moniker of the State Peace and Development Council — believe that the best way to control their political opponents is to adhere to the adage: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, and how much closer can you keep an enemy than locked away ...6 days ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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In the United States we are having a very long, very heated and very important political debate over ensuring that every citizen has access to health care. Imagine what it would be like to live in a country where the government spends a total of $61 per citizen per year on health care. No, that’s [...]1 week ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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Say what you will — I do as much as possible — about the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, but these guys have more chutzpah than the Menendez brothers begging for mercy because they’re orphans. And speaking of orphans, the generals do love the little tykes, as cannon ...1 week ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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In a vote by the United Nations 192-nation Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, North Korea and Myanmar were condemed for widespread and human rights violations. Sort of. The vote on North Korea was 97 yea, 19 nea and 65 abstentions. On Myanmar the vote was 92 yea, 26 nea and, again, 65 [...]1 week ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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While President Barack Hussein Obama’s visit to South East Asia and meeting with Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe did not result in any dramatic breaking of political logjams, it does appear that it may have given rise to the possibility of an unprecedented meeting between Shwe and oppossition leader Aung San ...1 week ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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In our attention to presidents, prime ministers and emperors, it is too easy to miss the actions of those with no titles. The common citizen does not get to claim the title of Nobel Laureate. Those in the trenches seldom get a meeting with those who wield power. They takes the risks and suffers the [...]1 week ago -
University of Texas Libraries debuts human rights Web site
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The Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI), a Web site that provides resources for research, highlights human rights-related archival materials at the university, informs the public on HRDIs documentation partnerships and promotes human rights events and research, has been introduced by the University of Texas ...1 week ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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The timing on this story from the Australia Network News seems odd to me. It could be the case that Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer is attempting to nudge the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, or that he is anticipating a favorable outcome to back channel talks.Burma’s detained ...2 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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Reality is all in the qualifiers, in this case an adverb. When President Barak Hussein Obama sits down with the heads of the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this weekend, he will reiterate the U.S. call for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar. All, of course, includes ...2 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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While President Barak Hussein Obama has no plan for a bilateral meeting with Myanmar’s Prime Minister Thein Sein during the South East Asian Nationssummitt in Singapore, observers are expressing great interest in what might transpire when Obama meets with the 10 ASEAN members.From AFP:“The US has decided that its ...2 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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Just as fellow Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela was a constant lightening rod for protests against South Africa’s apartheid government, so to is Aung San Suu Kyi the inescapable top-of-mind political fact hanging in any discussion with Myanmar’s military dictators because imprisonment has negated Myanmar’s next ...2 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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Talk is cheap, and talk between diplomats is typically bargain basement. Having asserted that caveat, however, I continue to be optimistic about the visit of U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell to Myanmar and his talks with both the State Peace and Development Council (aka, military dictators) and the opposition National ...3 weeks ago -
Free Burma: Update on Rape Victim
Save Burma —
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Free Burma: Update on Rape Victim Karen State, Burma 5 October 2009 The report below, of two women raped by a Burma Army commander, Khin Maung Hsit, was initially sent out on September 6, 2009. The FBR teams on the ground have now sent a photograph of one of the rape victims, Naw Eh Hla ...3 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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When First Lady Laura Bush took a specific interest in imprisoned Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi I had high hopes. I really did. In the end, Bush was unable to leverage her interesting into any kind of meaningful action. It has been 14 years since a high-level American diplomat has spoken with Suu Kyi. [...]3 weeks ago -
The BBC and the Gulf of Tonkin
Andrew Drummond —
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This is a blog only Is Burma softening its stance? The BBC is currently posing this question on its website in a fairly lengthy piece by my Bangkok colleague Alistair Leathead. The article quotes Derek Tonkin, former British Ambassador to Bangkok turned Burma watcher as saying: “Given the impasse of the last ...4 weeks ago -
The BBC and the Gulf of Tonkin
Thailand Voice —
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This is a blog only Is Burma softening its stance? The BBC is currently posing this question on its website in a fairly lengthy piece by my Bangkok colleague Alistair Leathead. The article quotes Derek Tonkin, former British Ambassador to Bangkok turned Burma watcher as saying: “Given the impasse of the last 20 ...4 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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Earlier this month I wrote about the numbers of people trafficked between Myanmar and Thailand. Both governments claimed they were getting a handle on the problem. Non-Governmental Organizations in the region, however call bullshit. Why am I not surprised? Can any truth come from Myanmar’s State Peace and ...4 weeks ago -
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
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Back on 16 October I posted about the push-of-war perpetrated on tens of thousands of Rothingya families along the Bagladesh/Myanmar border. The oppression has enterd a new phase with the Rothingya being forced into slave labor to build a fence preventing movement across the border. From Aljazeera.4 weeks ago -
“My husband died for his people, I will take his place on the FBR team.”
democracy for burma —
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“My husband died for his people, I will take his place on the FBR team.” – P’Saw Paw (Dew Flower), age 26, widow and mother of a 4 year old daughter. Dear friends, While on a relief mission in Toungoo District, Northern Karen State, Mya Win, FBR team video man and reporter, died of malaria as he helped his ...4 weeks ago
