Readers looking to continue chewing over the issue of Burmese politics and foreign “intervention” may find some satisfaction in this article from The Christian Science Monitor. It is part of a series they have been running over the past week that highlights conditions one year after the September 2007 uprising.
Entries Tagged as 'Burma uprising'
Education and dissent
September 22nd, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
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Aung Zaw on cyber-attacks
September 20th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
In response to the Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have, in the past few days, disabled a number of prominent Burma news websites, Irrawaddy editor Aung Zaw has hit back. His article in The Wall Street Journal will be of great interest to anyone who watches developments in Burma. More details on the current campaign [...]
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“From Dictatorship to Democracy”, Burma and all the rest
September 14th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 31 Comments
New Mandala readers who have followed this conversation may find a weekend article from The Wall Street Journal is worth a look. Burma is the subject of sustained discussion about half-way down.
Tags: Burma · Burma uprising · Trans-Border Issues
Andrew Selth interpreting for Lowy
August 26th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
Over at the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter “blog/zine hybrid”, Andrew Selth has a neat overview of recent events in and around Burma. Selth’s take-home message comes right at the end:
Increasingly…it is being understood that foreign powers are likely to have only limited influence in Burma. Real and lasting change will have to come from the Burmese [...]
Tags: Burma · Burma uprising · Cyclone Nargis · Trans-Border Issues
Burma today by George Packer
August 19th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
Over the past couple of days a few people have written to ensure that George Packer’s recent article for The New Yorker does not escape the attention of New Mandala readers. With the title “Drowning: Can the Burmese people rescue themselves?”, it is a wandering 12,000-word account of the trials and tribulations of contemporary Burma. Much [...]
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Robert Kaplan on Burma and American war-fighters
August 13th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 16 Comments
Robert D. Kaplan is a journalist who loves to take on the over-the-horizon issues that are just starting to be absorbed by popular appetites. He has the connections, and the time, and the energy to chase down important stories. And he has decided that future American involvement in Burma is now one of those stories. Today [...]
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“Democracy is stronger than bullying”
August 11th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
The regime survived 1988 as it had those earlier dangerous moments; now it hopes that the coincidence of the opening of the Beijing Olympics will divert the world’s attention from the 8-8-88 anniversary. But the Burmese people, supported by Burmese demonstrators around the world, won’t let it be forgotten. They know that this is a [...]
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Dominic Faulder on 8-8-88
August 8th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 1 Comment
If you don’t have a great deal of time today, but still want to read about Burma on this sad anniversary, I strongly suggest finding a moment to digest this reflection from Dominic Faulder. He was a journalist in Burma during that tumultuous period, filing stories for Asiaweek. If New Mandala readers find other great coverage in their [...]
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Activism, art and depictions of brutality
August 6th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
New Mandala readers who focus their energies on contemporary life in Burma will want to see this report about an exhibition and conference being held in Canberra. Showcasing art made by refugees living along the Thailand-Burma border, it seeks to highlight their plight and give greater exposure to their experiences. It looks very worthwhile.
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Cells, seminars and political science on the inside
August 4th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
Now in their 40s, most of the group’s founders were first rounded up as hotheaded university students who helped steer a failed pro-democracy uprising in 1988. Bound for professions in medicine, engineering or law, many never graduated. The prisons became their university.
- Extracted from “Burma’s Prisons a Caldron of Protest Fury”, The Washington Post, 3 [...]
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