Opinion
Don't buy into Burma's cosmetic reforms
When the EU reviews its position on Burma it would be wise to discard the ICG's recent report on the country.
Maung Zarni
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Outrageously optimistic 08 April 2011
By Maung Zarni
The intellectual crisis of reporting on Burma by the International Crisis Group.
http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4383-outrageously-optimistic.html
Why the ICG's Burma analyses and calls for ending sanctions cannot be taken seriously
Published on April 11, 2011
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2011/04/11/opinion/Why-the-ICGs-Burma-analyses-and-calls-for-ending-s-30152934.html
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Excellent movie--Merchant Ivory--Before the Rains--probably best movie set in India 1937--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwvOL2gRbQ
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