Friday, October 12, 2012

Cartoon- Is Burma really ready for another Nobel Peace Prize?

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/16293 Not with major ethic conflicts and war in the west and northeast in a country the area of Texas, but with much less flat land, not to mention the other human rights abuses 1. mass land grabs from farmers. 2. no protection for workers' rights 3. over 200 political prisoners still in jail 4. no systemic reforms 5. destroyed environment 6. army incorporated still owns everything. 7. ethnic conflict in Arakan 8. civil war in Kachin State. kmk

You will love this--Michael Wood, The Story of China--ep1.

I don't have a link, but you can Google it. Highly recommended/ And now it's6.30 AM, so I'd better get to sleep.