Myanmar

Zoya Phan writes: I have dreamed for many years of seeing Aung San Suu Kyi elected to parliament and watching thousands of people celebrating in the streets. Yet, while the scenes made me happy, I also felt a strange emptiness inside. We always expected that Aung San Suu Kyi being allowed to take a seat [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports: A day after her release from detention, opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday met dozens of ambassadors, hundreds of journalists and thousands of Myanmar citizens, underscoring the importance of dialogue, strength and determination in the battle for democracy in her country. As a [...]

Myanmar monks said to march again AP, October 31, 2007 More than 100 Buddhist monks marched in northern Myanmar for nearly an hour Wednesday, the first public demonstration since the government’s deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters, several monks said. The monks in Pakokku shouted no slogans, but one monk told the Democratic Voice [...]

Fear reigns in Burma’s city under siege The Sunday Times, October 14, 2007 Every night the curfew falls like a cloak across Mandalay, Burma’s second city and the heartland of its monkhood, hiding a reign of terror unseen by the outside world. The trishaws vanish from the streets. The lamps of temples and mosques dim. [...]

Burma sources: Between 200-300 monks killed in crackdown Haaretz, October 4, 2007 Sources in Burma’s opposition party NDL said Wednesday that, to date, between 200 and 300 monks have been killed in protests in a deadly crackdown on monks and civilians protesting steep price hikes and 45 years of brutal military rule. The sources said [...]

Myanmar’s resources provide leverage in region By Thomas Fuller, New York Times, October 1, 2007 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 each time Thais pay their electricity bill. Natural gas [...]

Myanmar monks’ protest contained by junta’s forces By Seth Mydans, New York Times, September 28, 2007 Myanmar’s armed forces appeared to have succeeded today in sealing tens of thousands of protesting monks inside their monasteries, but they continued to attack bands of civilian demonstrators who challenged them in the streets of the main city, Yangon. [...]