New Mandala readers who closely follow the Burmese political scene may benefit from having a looking at a recently announced website. Called Burma Review, it carries a number of long analytical pieces on current issues - including some significant commentary on the United Nations Security Council’s role in Burma.
The website also welcomes contributions. To my eye, it looks like it should fill a niche among existing Burma Studies blog offerings. Over coming months it will be worth a regular look as its content grows and prospers.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Walker // Sep 28, 2007 at 12:57 am
Can someone confirm the rumour that soldiers from Sagaing, Chin and Magway provinces have mutinied and are marching on the Generals Capitol of Naypyidaw?
2 Rasmuncher // Sep 28, 2007 at 2:44 am
The only solution to the crisis in Burma is that the people resume power.
The Burmese army are Burmese with families in Burma who can apply pressure for these serving members of the military to resign or defect.
Please ask all Burmese people to shun other Burmese people who have a serving member in the army until they resign.
Without an army, the Generals have no power.
3 Saffron Sally // Sep 28, 2007 at 7:52 pm
If you’re on Facebook check this out:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6029757649
4 Ron James // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I have heared that there are a growing number of Burmese who are determined to continue the fight no matter what. They are organising themselves into small local groups using anonymous names. They have a secret plan to take out the army by putting various kinds of slow poison into the food and drink that is delivered to the military all over the country.
5 sophie lwin // Nov 12, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Hello,
I would like to ask you for a favor, to talk about and post the new campaign dontforgetburma.org if it is not too much trouble for you.
We created this site because we wanted a space where normal people could show that although the media spotlight over Burma may have dimmed, we are still thinking of Burma.
The team that runs this site came together through the “Support the Monks’ Protest in Burma ” Facebook group (439,000 members) and has created the website http://www.burma-watch.org .
We’re a team of activists from around the world that work around the clock on our sites, we were key to coordinating the Global Day of Action for Burma on October 6th 2007 and Aung Sang Suu Kyi day (October 24th 2007).
We’d like to thank our launch partners who have helped make this project work., they are: Burma Campaign UK, The US Campaign for Burma, Avaaz.org, the European Burma Network and wearenotafraid.com .
About Burma
Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world; a dictatorship charged by the United Nations with a “crime against humanity” for its systematic abuses of human rights, and condemned internationally for refusing to transfer power to the legally elected Government of the country – the party led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
In September 2007 monks led thousands of peaceful protestors onto the streets of Burma. The Burmese military put this peaceful uprising down with ruthless brutality routinely using violence and torture against the protestors, even the monks. The people of Burma have lived under military dictatorship for 45 years. The last peaceful uprising that occurred in1988 was brutally put down by the army killing at least 3,000 people. However the West didn’t act because very little news came out of Burma. This time is different, we know people have been tortured, we know hundreds and possibly thousands of people have been murdered by the regime in an attempt to put down the uprising.
To make sure the world doesn’t forget get active, submit a photo of support to this site, join the Facebook group and find a local activist organisation via http://www.burma-watch.org/index.php?option=com_glossary&Itemid=113
Sophie Lwin
sophielwin.blogspot.com
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