Saturday, December 20, 2008

Understanding the Kachin conflict -- from Pulitzer International Center for Crisis Reporting --

http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2008/12/myanmar-11-key-points-for-understanding-the-kachin-conflict.html#more

Renewed conflict is expected after Burmese military junta's 2010 "election."

Authors write that 1994 ceasefire achieved nothing.

Kyi May Kaung

One of my favorite books--Grendel by John Gardner, famous writer and writing teacher, who died after a motor cycle accident.

Unfortunately he died the year I arrived in America, and I had not yet caught the writing bug. One of my favorite books--Grendel by John G...