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Myanmar: When Nyamyo walked through the porous India- Myanmar border 12 years ago, he was just a 14-year-old, who dreamt of a better life and of future studies. He was relieved to have left a country, where opportunities were non-existent. However, soon that relief became...
Published on 12/06/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
The Burmese regime has rebutted international criticism of its crackdown against democracy campaigners, revealing that 3,000 people have been arrested and saying that it will continue its repression. "We will go ahead. We will not deviate from our path," the regime said in a commentary publ...
Published on 10/18/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari has described as "extremely disturbing" new arrests in Burma, calling on the ruling junta to stop detaining democracy activists. EU foreign ministers later agreed to broaden existing sanctions against the junta, to target Burma's key timber, metals and gem...
Published on 10/15/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
Burma's military rulers have arrested three of the last remaining leaders of the recent pro-democracy protests which were violently suppressed. Among those detained was Htay Kywe, who led some of the first marches and was a prominent activist in a 1988 uprising. The arrests came as thousan...
Published on 10/13/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
From an email sent by: Avaaz.org Dear friends, European foreign ministers will decide on Burma this Monday - urge your own foreign minister to back targeted sanctions and incentives! Send Your Message This Monday, October 15, the foreign ministers of...
Published on 10/12/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
MANDALAY, Oct 11 (IPS) - When Burma’s military regime mounted an attack on unarmed Buddhist monks and civilian protestors in Rangoon, the residents of this ancient city feared similar treatment. On the first day of that crackdown, Sep. 26, monks were targeted by heavily armed soldiers, the ...
Published on 10/12/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
Chants and drum beats echoed off the faceless, stone buildings of Whitehall on Saturday as several thousand marched past the seat of Britain's democratic government to highlight Burma's plight. Monks led the way past Parliament Led by about a dozen monks, sober...
Published on 10/07/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, described the lessons she had learned from her country's Hsayadaws, its Buddhist holy teachers, in an article for a Japanese newspaper in 1996. One of them told her what it would be like to fight for democracy in Burma: "You will be attacked ...
Published on 10/07/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
The monk-led protests in Burma are about spiritual authority as much as they are about raw political power. They are deeply rooted in Burma’s religious culture. Nothing illustrates this so well as the chants of the protesting monks and their overturned begging bowls. Everyone in Burma under...
Published on 10/07/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
Make that Western world opinion. The rest of the world doesn't seem to share our soft spot for Buddhism, perhaps because they take their own religions too seriously to be in the market for exotic or boutique alternatives. For liberal-minded agnostics, however, Buddhism is often the mumbo-jumbo o...
Published on 10/07/2007 in Lamentations | Read more ...
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