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Monday, September 03, 2018
From CNN--2 Reuters journalists sentenced to 7 years each in archaic law for reporting on Rohingya Massacre.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/03/asia/reuters-journalists-myanmar-trial-verdict-intl/index.html
A stain on a country that calls itself Buddhist and "democratic" yet still uses this colonial era law.
SHAME.
Sanctions should be put back on Myanmar.
UN is pushing for Gen Min Aung Hlaing to be sent to ICC International Criminal Court.
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9-3-2018
Photo at Rohingya Conference in NY in 2012 with Nobel Laureate economist A K Sen.
An excellent, excellent movie--The Burial--On a par with Mississippi Burniing--
You can see it on Amazon Prime--based on a real life case and the original story in the New Yorker. Court scenes--the funeral monopoly that...
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Directed by Miloš Forman Screenplay by Peter Shaffer Based on Amadeus by Peter Shaffer Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pus...
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