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, by Members of Parliament-Elect
To: Hon. Mr. Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations
From:
Members of Parliament-Elect, Myanmar/Burma
Date: 1 August 2007
Re: National Reconciliation and Democratization in Myanmar/Burma
Dear Excellency,
We note that you have issued a statement on 18 July 2007, in which you (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Find below the content of a recent publication on the health and human rights situation in Burma, with a lot of data on the country’s background. This publication is online. To get it, click on the above link — or the link below.
The Gathering Storm, Infectious Diseases and Human Rights in (…)
, by JAGAN Larry
June 15, 2007 - Burma’s military rulers are preparing for the next stage of their so called “roadmap to democracy”. But rather than genuine multi-party democracy, it appears that the junta is now planning to civilianise its existing military administration. One of the elements in the way in (…)
, by NG Eileen
June 11, 2007—Western sanctions to force democracy on military-ruled Burma are pointless because the country will survive as long as it is supported by giant neighbors China and India, a senior Southeast Asian official said Monday.
“We should look at some other ways of doing it instead of just (…)
, by FIDH
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
PRESS RELEASE
BURMA
Paris, May 28, 2007. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) strongly condemns the decision of the Burmese military junta to extend the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and (…)
, by Kyaw Zwa Moe
A man in Rangoon quarreled with his wife. Local authorities arrived and took the man into custody. The following morning, he was dead.
This may sound hard to believe, but it happened last Sunday in Rangoon’s North Okkalapa Township.
Naing Oo was arrested by authorities -including members of (…)
, by Salween Watch
On February 28, 2007, 19 cities worldwide expressed solidarity in opposing the planned Salween Dams. Protests in front of Thai embassies/consulates were held in a number of cities, including Washington DC, Sydney, New Delhi, Essen, Paris, Jakarta, Auckland, and Manila, where a petition letter (…)
, by MACAN-MAKAR Marwaan
BANGKOK, Feb 28 (IPS) - Being a village headman means little if you live in a community nestling in the hills close to Thailand’s northern border with Burma. More so, if officials have plans to use your village for a large ’development’ project.
That is the lesson Nu Chamnayakiriprai continues (…)
, by THAKURIA Nava
Driven by the growing need for energy, both India and China are throwing money and development projects at Burma’s junta.
Burma may be a pariah in the eyes of most of the world but India appears determined to enhance its strategic relationship with the country to avoid conceding ground to (…)
, by Thant Myint-U
There is an enduring myth that in 1948, when it achieved independence from Britain, Burma was a rich country with every reason to expect a bright future and that the policies and practices of the military government are alone to blame for today’s miseries. It is beyond dispute that many of (…)
, by FULLBROOK David
Fueled by the sale of energy and timber, a pariah nation seeks weapons to keep its enslaved people in line.
Locked into a bunker mentality, believing Burma is under siege from insurgents, determined to hold onto power and fueled by profits from looting its forests and fossil fuel energy (…)
The recently released report by the UN human rights rapporteur for Burma, Paulo S?rgio Pinheiro, detailed how the world has witnessed a regression in the already besieged safety and livelihood of Burma’s 54 million people living under one of the world’s most repressive military governments. (…)
, by SOUTH Ashley
The days of Burma’s border-based insurgency may be drawing to a close. As elements of the Karen nationalist community barter for an unofficial ceasefire with the junta, armed rebel groups on the border are growing increasingly marginalized.
In the early 1990s the Karen National Union and (…)
, by Khun Sam
Two non-government groups working with Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand have declined a US $6.12 million package offered by French oil giant Total.
The NGOs say they refused the money because of Total’s business dealings with the Burmese military regime and its alleged involvement in (…)
, by AGUJA Mario “Mayong”
Speach delivered by Akbayan Representative Mario Aguja at the Hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee on Burma, Danish Parliament, 6 April 2006
Mr. Chairperson, fellow parliamentarians, ladies and gentlemen:
Allow me to express my gratitude for this opportunity to share with you my hopes (…)
, by AGUJA Mario “Mayong”
Mr. Speaker, esteemed colleagues, I rise today on the matter concerning the worsening situation of Myanmar. Even if our country is likewise experiencing political crisis and repression, this should not prevent us from fighting for the rights and welfare of our Asian brothers and sisters.
The (…)
, by KRAMER Tom
United Wa State Army chairman Bao Yuxiang said on June 24, after proclaiming Special Region 2 a ‘drugs source free zone’: “How are the farmers going to survive after the poppy ban? This is the big question that every level of local authorities encounters.” He added: “The lives of the people will (…)
What do opposing academic views on Burma achieve?
Academics are so capable of thinking and writing oddly on occasion that it’s a wonder people take them seriously. They just research people or events, develop ideas, write them down or talk about them. That’s all. Why then are their views so (…)
, by SOUTH Ashley
ABSTRACT
This article examines social and political transition in Myanmar (Burma). Strategies for transition in Myanmar have tended to focus on elite-level politics, rather than grass-roots democratisation and social mobilisation. However, both approaches are necessary - although neither is (…)
, by ARNOTT David
Self-presentation of the library taken from its website.
The Online Burma/Myanmar Library is a database which functions as an annotated, classified and hyperlinked index to full texts of individual Burma documents on the Internet. It also houses a growing collection of articles, conference (…)
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