Army Girl (Free subscription) | yesterday
This event marks an occasion that has long since been arriving. "French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has hailed as a "miracle" her release from more than six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle." Now for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. We still wait.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Myanmar’s opposition party led by detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday called for the release of activists who were beaten and arrested by a militia group earlier this month.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
In the 20 years since Aung San Suu Kyi first emerged as the leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, she has inspired admiration in people around the world. She has also captured the imagination of a...
Lord Nazh's Daily Ramble (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Here's a prediction: Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. He would be its worthiest recipient since the prize went to Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (one of the prize's few worthy recipients, period) in 1991. He deserves it for standing up – politically as well as physically – to Robert Mugabe's goon-squad dictatorship for over a decade; for organizing a democratic opposition...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY OF REPRESSION "The continued repression in Burma is a stain on the world's conscience," said Article 19 on the 63rd birthday of deposed democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The day, ...
Rock The Truth (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Unfortunately,the National League for Democracy is a CIA tool !!!! Also see : Aung San Suu Kyi is Burmese for CIA " Citizens secretly aid Burma victims ; Deliver supplies to hard-hit areas" by Washington Post | June 22, 2008 RANGOON, Burma - Seven weeks after huge swaths of Burma were savaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, a new and remarkable citizen movement is delivering emergency supplies to survivors...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Myanmar police arrested members of the National League for Democracy who were “celebrating” the 63rd birthday of detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Myanmar’s ruling military junta detained 13 opposition party members who called for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she marked her 63rd birthday, witnesses said. The 13 people were taken into a truck after dozens of Suu Kyi’s supporters gathered outside the National League for Democracy party’s headquarters in Yangon [...]
Memories Of Movement (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
MPs from 8 European countries have come together to form a new Parliamentary caucus on Burma. The new caucus is launched to coincide with the 63rd birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi – the detained leader of Burma’s democracy movement. They hope to recruit more than 200 MPs to the caucus before the end of the year. The caucus aims [...]
Indus Asia Online Journal (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Report by: Kashif Bajeer The Chairman of Liberal Forum Pakistan, Mr Anees Jillani and SPARC Protection Manager Sindh Mr.Kashif Bajeer in a press statement has drawn the attention of the people of Pakistan, and the governmental authorities, to the plight of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who celebrated her 63rd birthday alone, under house [...]
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Claiming that the continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal and in violation of international law, Freedom Now, a Washington-based rights organization, has filed a petition against the Burmes...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Pro-junta thugs broke up a rally by supporters of Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, detaining three people among a crowd chanting for her release on her 63rd birthday, a senior opposition member said. At least six truckloads of Swan-Arr-Shin, or "Masters of Force", gang members waded into the crowd.
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
19/6/08 Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s detained opposition leader, are marking her 63rd birthday as she remains under house arrest in Yangon. The Nobel peace laureate herself marked her birthday on Thursday by offering a bunch of yellow roses at Yangon’s Shwedagon pagoda, through a member of her political party. Apart from a brief [...]
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - The following is an ARTICLE 19 statement: Yet another solitary birthday for Aung San Suu Kyi;Yet another stain on world conscience Aung San Suu Kyi is today celebrating her 6...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Activists and National League for Democracy members celebrating the 63rd birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi today were beaten and arrested by pro-government militias.
