Friday, December 07, 2007

Deadly Rain: Burmese Government Lying About Number Who Died --

"The gunshots were like rain, I never saw so much bleeding."

Min Min Oo (pseudonym of high school student interviewed by Human Rights Watch)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3017089.ece

Ironically, in the past 19 years since 1988 and past 45 years since 1962, this is nothing new in Burma (which the junta calls Myanmar).

Posted by Kyi May Kaung

Lung cancer and smoking--one of my friends married to a diplomat died of 2nd hand smoke.

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