Ler Per Her refugee camp attacked by Burmese Army

In the mountainous jungles of the Karen State in eastern Burma, a small village of fragile bamboo huts sits poised on the idyllic banks of the Moei river at the border with Thailand. But the reality is far from...

We are with you, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar for the last couple of decades was blended with trauma under the bloody realm of Military Juntas which makes headline every other day. Rangoon, despite being a member of United Nations plainly nullifies  the international principles on human rights and carries out...

Myanmar junta rejects appeal for Suu Kyi release

Global effort to pressure Junta so the Free Democracy Leader of Mayanmar could be released paid no dividend. Strange it seems that how world leaders who wage war and impose sanction cannot do this.Several plea of UN fell in deaf ears of Junta."Myanmar's junta has rejected an...

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Illegally Detained, UN Says

Aung San Suu Kyi, the renowned pro-democracy leader in Myanmar who has been held under house arrest for the past 13 years, is being detained illegally a U.N. ruling revealed Monday.The working group that made the...

Junta chief claims to be new president in Guinea

A junior army officer who led the coup in Guinea, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, has declared himself as new "president of the republic". He has also clampdown an overnight curfew throughout the country.Camara has...

Junta releases 9002 prisoners: hope prevails

This is very good gesture on the part of junta,this release of prisoner raised hope about the change of heart of junta, ragarding the release of political prisoners. " We haven't heard of any political...

Al Qaeda decapitated 12 Mauritanian Soldiers

"Mauritania says 12 held by al Qaeda were decapitated Sat 20 Sep 2008, 17:54 GMTNOUAKCHOTT, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Twelve Mauritanian soldiers who were abducted in an attack on their patrol claimed by al Qaeda have been found killed with their heads cut off, a senior official of...

Secret court may jail Burma comic Maung Thura for helping Cyclone Nargis victims

Burma's most popular comedian, Maung Thura who is well known as Zarganar faces 20 years in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison for helping Cyclone Nargis victims in the Irrawaddy delta " The repressive and...

Blast hits pro-junta office in Myanmar

Offices of  the pro Junta activists have been bombed today early morning. The group helps Burmese militia with its social welfare programme. " An explosion at dawn Tuesday rocked the office of a government-backed social welfare group whose members have been...

Clooney and Pitt launch Myanmar ad campaign

""Burma's neighbours have the power to help victims who remain desperately in need," said the advertisement, signed by former and current regional leaders and Nobel laureates, referring to Myanmar by its previous name.Signatories included former Philippine president Corazon...

Bloggers Writing Scared in Zimbabwe

More and more bloggers are adding their voices to the chorus of confusion and unease in Zimbabwe, as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced his withdrawal from the presidential run-off from the safety of...

Burma junta gang hits Suu Kyi birthday rally

Worst birthday ever: it's bad enough that Burma's elected leader. Aung San Suu Kyi, has been under house arrest for 13 years, but to attack a rally on her birthday?"At least six truckloads of Swan-Arr-Shin, or "Masters of Force", gang members waded into the crowd outside the...

Junta’s Delays in Myanmar Are Less Costly Than Feared

"Myanmar — More than six weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis swept through the Irrawaddy Delta in southern Myanmar, leaving a trail of flattened villages and broken lives and arousing international sympathy...

Myanmar arrests activist as U.S. aid ships leave

It's been more than a month since the cyclone that devastated burma hit, and the government has still not allowed the US and French military ships with aid docked just outside to come in. Now the US ship is leaving, and the Myanmar government has arrested yet another...

US May Withdraw Navy Aid Mission from Burma

The US Navy may remove its ships from Myanmar's coast as the military junta continues to stonewall aid efforts."Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday he will make a decision within "a matter of days" to...

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