Tag: Burma
The Burmese junta still fears Aung San Suu Kyi
After spending 14 of the past 19 years under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's ailing pro-democracy opposition leader, now sits in the military junta's Insein prison, notorious for its filth, disease and the mental and physical torture deployed against its prisoners.
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The 10 worst corporations of 2008
What is most revealing about the financial meltdown and economic crisis, however, is that it illustrates that corporations — if left to their own worst instincts — will destroy themselves and the system that nurtures them. It is rare that this lesson is so graphically illustrated. It is one the world must quickly learn, if we are to avoid the most serious existential threat we have yet faced: climate change.
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Burma's junta shows contempt
Any hope that the military dictatorship in Burma might be mending its vicious ways in response to pleas from abroad was crushed this week when the regime handed out 65-year prison sentences to 14 nonviolent democracy activists, and sentences of up to 26 years for 25 others.
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Myanmar extends Suu Kyi house arrest
Myanmar's military junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, a government source and diplomats said.
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Republican convention chief resigns over his firm's work for Burma
The veteran political operative chosen by Sen. John McCain to run the Republican National Convention this summer abruptly resigned yesterday after Newsweek reported that the lobbying and public relations firm he heads once represented the Burmese government.
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Myanmar disaster worsens food crisis
The cyclone that swept through Myanmar last weekend left more than 22,000 people dead. Tens of thousands more remain missing. Now the disaster threatens to set in motion a second crisis: one of deepening hunger in Myanmar and across South Asia.
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Laughing through the junta's gag
The generals, to put it mildly, can't take a joke. But the Moustache Brothers make their living mocking fools, including those who wear military uniforms.
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Burma's charade
Unfortunately, this supposed constitution, like the faux democracy it constructs, enshrines only the dictators who are holding the country hostage.
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World's conscience on Burma
They fly no flag, they rule no territory, yet winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have earned the right to act, at certain times, as representatives of the world's conscience.
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Burmese dissidents denounce election plans
Two of Myanmar's top dissident groups, one led by Buddhist monks, on Monday denounced the military government's plans for a constitutional referendum as an effort to perpetuate the junta's rule.
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Burma's most wanted
We did not reach final victory. We were defeated in the middle of our struggle," says the young Burmese monk sitting in front of me. "It will be very hard to have another demonstration."
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Burmese protest leaders face seven years behind bars
Burma's military regime has filed charges against 10 leading activists seized for orchestrating rallies against price rises last year.
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Amnesty International accuses Myanmar of holding more dissidents
Four months after a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, the government of Myanmar has stepped up arrests of dissenters, breaking a promise to the United Nations, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.
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Burmese poet arrested over cryptic verse attacking general
A popular Burmese poet has been arrested over a love poem that contained a hidden message criticising the military junta's notoriously sensitive top general.
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Tutu: Poverty fueling terror
The global "war on terror" can't be won if people are living in "desperate" conditions, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told CNN.
