Friday, August 23, 2013

Tomas Ojea Quintana's UN Envoy's latest report on HRs in Burma

http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2013/08/statement-of-special-rapporteur-on.html

Not good, junta has been staging "demonstrations" against him, and a junta inclined publication said Quintana "had an underlying bad attitude," and so was frightened when he saw the crowd (of 200 people) who merely patted his car.

Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...