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Myanmar Cyclone: Over 22,000 Dead and 41,000 Missing

07-May-08

CNN: “Myanmar cyclone survivors desperate for aid”
More than 22,000 killed and 41,000 missing, Myanmar radio reports
Survivor tells how wall of water left bodies in trees, bushes and streams
U.N. has started getting food aid but so far it is only the first step of huge job
U.S. President George Bush says Navy is ready to help if […]

Myanmar: Protected by its Resources

02-Oct-07

Tom Fuller has a good story in the New York Times about how Myanmar’s resources affect regional politics (“Myanmar’s Resources Provide Leverage”):
For two decades, Myanmar’s neighbors have grappled with the question of how to respond to the unrelenting repression by the country’s ruling generals of its people. In Thailand, the answer comes […]

Stallone: I Received Death Threats on Thai-Myanmar Border

01-Oct-07

Sylvester Stallone — who, you’ll recall, has weighed in on Myanmar before — says he received death threats while filming his upcoming flick, “John Rambo,” here in Thailand. Times of India:
Actor-director Sylvester Stallone has revealed that he received a series of death threats while filming upcoming sequel John Rambo along the troubled Thailand-Myanmar border.
The […]

Myanmar’s ‘Citizen Journalists’

28-Sep-07

Geoffrey A. Fowler, in the Wall St. Journal: “As Myanmar’s regime cracks down on a growing protest movement, ‘citizen journalists’ are breaking the news to the world.”
At 1:30 yesterday afternoon, a cellphone buzzed with news for Soe Myint, the editor in chief of Mizzima News, a publication about Myanmar run by exiles in New Delhi.
The […]

Myanmar: Military Fires on Protesters

27-Sep-07

CNN.com:
Myanmar’s security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon, reports said Thursday.
A Japanese national was shot and killed by the military junta, the Japanese Foreign Ministry told CNN.
There are claims by dissidents that four protesters were shot on Thursday.
At least 100 […]

News from Myanmar (Burma): How to Follow the Events Online

26-Sep-07

Bangkok, 3 p.m. — Things are heating up next door in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. AP/CNN says that police have now begun cracking down on protesters.
Here are a few online news resources for those of you who’d like to follow the events:
– A Google news search for Burma or Myanmar is […]

Myanmar: Government Warns Protesters

25-Sep-07

Reuters (”Myanmar junta threatens action against protesters“):
Fears of a repeat of 1988’s bloody crackdown by Myanmar’s ruling generals grew on Tuesday after the junta threatened action against monks at the centre of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in nearly 20 years.
The Burma Campaign UK said its sources in Yangon had reported soldiers being ordered to […]

Protests in Myanmar

24-Sep-07

Here’re some recent accounts of the ongoing protests next door in Myanmar.
New York Times (”Monks’ Protest Is Challenging Burmese Junta“):
The largest street protests in two decades against Myanmar’s military rulers gained momentum Sunday as thousands of onlookers cheered huge columns of Buddhist monks and shouted support for the detained pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu […]