Flurry of activity could prove, as so often before, to be just window dressing, writes British ambassador Andrew Heyn This is a particularly interesting time for Burma watchers. A flurry of activity, both domestically and internationally, has aroused hopes that things might be starting to move in a positive direction. But the optimism is offset by fears that this might be a repeat of the window dressing,...
by BRANDON BUCK , Causecast Video Producer 2010 will be a very important year for Burma and the fate of democracy in the country, as the first general election will take place in nearly two decades. In August, President Obama asked that all political prisoners in Burma, naming Aung San Suu Kyi specifically , be set free, which the Burmese court rejected and is currently being appealed by Aung San's...
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Conflict in Burma dominated media headlines during the protests in the autumn of 2007. It was not the first time that the world took note of the division between state and society in that country. This conflict between society and the regime has been an issue of international concern since the 1990 election following which the military prevented the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung...
Help free Suu Kyi and other high profile human rights defenders during Amnesty International's Global Write-a-thon, the world's largest letter writing event, December 5-13th. The more letters we send, the better chance we have at setting Aung San Suu Kyi free. Please pledge to write a letter on behalf of Aung San Suu Kyi. In the days surrounding International Human Rights Day – December 10 –...
“Like Burma,†he added, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained opposition leader and fellow Nobel peace prize laureate. “Communist hardliners believe that power comes from the barrel of a gun,†the Dalai Lama said, …Click Here
URL: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/22/resistance-monks-0 . Source: Human Rights Watch. This 99-page report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two years after Buddhist...
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with US delegation led by Kurt Campbell. Couple talking -- Giacommetti -- The Queen -- at National Gallery, DC -- photo Kyi May Kaung
[pba] A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Burma on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. The 192-nation General Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, approved a resolution on North Korea 97-19 with 65 abstentions. A similar resolution on Burma (Myanmar) passed 92-26 with 65 abstentions....
All Burma Monks’ Alliance (ABMA), 88 Generation Students and All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) urge for working toward the benefits of all the people of Burma No. 7/2009 (ABMA+88+ABFSU) Joint Statement No.7_2009_english Joint Statement No.7_2009_burmese Date: November 19, 2009 1. As of the letter by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Sr. Gen Than Shwe dated on November [...]
Calls from the French foreign ministry to release Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi have been welcomed by campaigners in France who say that Western engagement with the regime is long overdue. A statement released by the foreign ministry yesterday stated that “we hope that this call to the Burmese prime minister to release all political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi will be heard”....
I also commend to you the International Crisis Group’s report of 14 September 2009, the key conclusions of which are summarized below: • Beijing has pushed its neighbour to undertake political reforms, but not in the way the West would like. • China was the first to congratulate Aung San Suu Kyi on her election in 1990. • [...]
by Salai Han Thar San & Mungpi Tuesday, 17 November 2009 22:20New Delhi (Mizzima) - Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s proposal to meet the ruling junta’s military supremo Snr Gen Than Shwe in person to further discuss easing of sanctions, is a good step and could lead to a breakthrough in Burmese politics, observers said.Detained Nobel Peace Laureate, through her party spokesperson,...
Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions but it remains uncertain if the reconciliation efforts will yield results.
United States’ president Barrack Obama made a personal appeal for the release of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi during a summit between the US and Southeast Asian leaders last week. Any mention of Suu Kyi was however conspicuously absent from a 27-point statement released following the summit, which expressed only hope for “broad political and economic reforms” in Burma. It was the...
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