Aung San Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi met at a government guesthouse today.
Aung San Suu Kyi met with Aung Kyi, the government official assigned to be the government liaison. The New York Times has two articles: “Opposition Leader Meets Burmese Official” and “In Myanmar, Fear Is Ever Present” and two slideshows (here and here) worth [...]
“Free Burma” to me stands for freedom to speak, think, and act on one’s accordance and the freedom to live and work as one pleases. As in the words of Aung San Suu Kyi,
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai laying dead on a street in Rangoon.
A reader has just e-mailed me the following post from LAist, a blog specializing on Los Angeles, my hometown. The post “U.S. Media Blames Santa Monica College Professor for Burma Web Blackout,” describes the unfair sensationalizing of an innocent professor at a local community college [...]
Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. When I called her to tell her “Happy Birthday,” she had totally forgotten about her birthday. She was frantic and had been following news in Burma online at work. My mother has many relatives and friends in Rangoon, especially in Lanmadaw, where she was raised. She couldn’t reach them through [...]
I have just returned to my dorm, after going on a bus to a medical appointment. Inside the bus, there was a news clip of the clampdown on protesters in Burma. All I could hear on the broadcast were ordinary citizens yelling ‘Myitta po gya ba’–’send your love’–to the protesters.
I am speechless. What has been [...]
The large-scale and unabated protests in Burma have probably caught many people by surprise. Led by angry young Buddhist monks who wanted an apology from the government for the abusive treatment of fellow monks who protested in Pakokku. The government has yet to stop these the majority of these protests–tear gas was thrown at [...]
Anyone curious about the extent of protests against fuel price increases in Burma will find this map, created by the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-BURMA) interesting. The map provides dates, arrests, number of protesters at each protest that has taken place thus far.
The link, once again is: http://www.altsean.org/Photogalleries/ProtestsMap.php.
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