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.

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...