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...
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...
opinion by tlekshay | 27 wks ago 115 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 37 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 140 views | 11 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by Sanjay Jha | 49 wks ago | updated 49 wks ago 136 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
"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...
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...
created by sweet east pearl | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 270 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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""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...
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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...
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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 183 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
"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...
created by renovatio | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 127 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 340 views | 22 recommendations | 5 comments