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Burma: Junta Jail Rangoon Abbot
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 4:47 pm | Terry Evans
The abbot of Zantila Rama monastery, in Rangoon, has been sentenced to a two year prison term. He was convicted of defamation after complaining about the seizure of money from the monastery during a raid by government security forces in early October. More >>
Burma : Junta Named Worst Housing Rights Violator
Saturday, 8 December 2007, 1:01 pm | Terry Evans
COHRE has issued these awards since 2002. This year, the SPDC of Burma shares the Violator Awards with Slovakia and (jointly) the Beijing Municipality and Beijing Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (BOCOG). More >>
Burma : Junta Named Worst Housing Rights Violator
Friday, 7 December 2007, 5:18 pm | Terry Evans
This week the State Peace and Development Council of Burma named as Housing Rights Violator for the mass displacement of more than one million civilians More >>
Burma: Junta Sideline Aung San Suu Kyi
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 12:55 am | Terry Evans
The Burmese generals have announced that Aung San Suu Kyi's party will not play a part in drafting the long-awaited new constitution. More >>
Burma: Junta Charges Monks' Leader With Treason
Monday, 3 December 2007, 9:24 am | Terry Evans
The leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance (ABMA) has been arrested and charged with treason for his role in the September pro-democracy demonstrations. Treason is a capital crime in Burma. If convicted and executed, 27 year-old U Gambira would be ... More >>
Burma: Monks Demand Deaths, Disappearances Inquiry
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 11:19 am | Terry Evans
In a statement released yesterday, the All-Burmese Monks Alliance (ABMA) called for an investigation into the fate of monks who remain unaccounted for since the September protests. More >>
Singapore Temple Closes Door To Activists
Monday, 26 November 2007, 11:27 am | Terry Evans
Last Friday the largest Burmese Buddhist temple in Singapore closed its doors to Burmese pro-democracy activists, who have been using it as a rallying point and mailing address. More >>
Burmese Student Leaders Allowed Family Visit
Friday, 23 November 2007, 10:26 am | Terry Evans
Top leaders of the 88 Generation Students were allowed to receive prison visits from their families yesterday for the first time since their arrests three months ago. More >>
Burmese Junta Censor Private Media
Monday, 19 November 2007, 9:19 am | Terry Evans
The Middle Line Journal has been suspended by the Burmese junta, according to sources in Rangoon. More >>
Burmese anti-junta activists regroup
Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:50 am | Terry Evans
Since mid October new groups of anti-junta activists have sprung up in Rangoon. More >>
Internet once again out in Burma
Friday, 2 November 2007, 4:04 pm | Terry Evans
After about two weeks of slow speed Internet line recovery, users in Rangoon today said access to the World Wide Web has been once again cut-off. More >>
BURMA: Torture and inhuman treatment of protestors
Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 1:10 pm | Terry Evans
The numbers of persons and Buddhist monks and nuns who have been taken into custody in Burma during recent days remains unknown. This is largely because none of them have been taken in accordance with any law. There has not even been the pretence ... More >>
Burmese "Panties for Peace" Campaign
Monday, 22 October 2007, 5:12 pm | Terry Evans
A Burmese pro democracy group based in Chang Mai, Thailand have come up with an imaginative way of expressing their disproval against the brutal Burmese junta, by sending womans' knickers to Burmese Embassies. More >>
Red Cross Worried About Those Arrested in Burma
Friday, 19 October 2007, 4:39 pm | Terry Evans
Swiss based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that it is "deeply worried" about the fate of those arrested in Burma. The ICRC said that it was trying to gain access to thousands of civilians who are currently in detention after the ... More >>
Burma's Paranoid Generals Bloody Backlash
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 5:17 am | Terry Evans
Burma's paranoid junta has managed to shut down most channels of communication with the outside world. However, couriers are still reaching the Thai/Burma border with reports of a ruthless terror campaign being conducted inside Burma. More >>
Burmese Generals Take Revenge
Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 5:24 pm | Terry Evans
Today Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) made a plea to the generals to stop the torture of those detained after last month's mass street demonstrations. The pro-democracy NLD party, headed by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, called for ... More >>
Burma Junta Continues Communications Clampdown
Thursday, 11 October 2007, 3:16 pm | Terry Evans
A recent report from the Thai/Burma border states that ten satellite telephones and numerous computers earlier smuggled into Burma have been seized, the last lines of contact after the government shut down the internet and blocked mobile and fixed-line ... More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi's Missing Peace Warriors
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 4:41 pm | Terry Evans
Six days after the brutal clampdown by the Burmese generals, the world is left wondering what has become of Aung San Suu Kyi's "peace warriors". The Buddhist monks, who last month turned small protests against hiked fuel prices into a mass display of peaceful ... More >>
Burmese Generals Need To Be Held To Account
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 10:27 am | Terry Evans
There are many well documented cases of rapes, murders, looting and stealing by the Burmese military during operations conducted in rebel areas What there is not is a single incidence of a court martial for the criminal acts committed against ethnic ... More >>
UN Envoy Gambari Meets With Aung San Suu Kyi
Monday, 1 October 2007, 9:01 am | Terry Evans
Diplomats in Burma say that Ibrahim Gambari a senior U.N. envoy has met with Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon. It is reported that on Sunday he talked with Aung San Suu Kyi for a an hour at a government-run guest house. More >>
