http://viss.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/speechless/
I don't know why I can't put these 2 Burma blogs on my link list.
Help!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ko Htike's Blog
http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/
Correction -- Ko Htike is based in London, his blogsite is getting very famous --
the picture of the human brain has been authenticated by a medical doctor.
Correction -- Ko Htike is based in London, his blogsite is getting very famous --
the picture of the human brain has been authenticated by a medical doctor.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai -- killed in Rangoon, Thursday
At first, the Burmese junta said he was hit by a stray bullet, but video frames obtained by the Oslo based Democratic Voice of Burma showed a soldier throwing him to the ground and shooting him point blank. A loud shot was heard on the video tape as he was flung backwards and fell on his back.
A Japanese embassy physician ascertained that a bullet entered Nagai's chest, traveled through his heart and exited via his back.
Nagai is pronounced "Nar Gi Yee" -- Gi rhyming with "I"
Earlier reports said he "died later" and was still alive in first video frame which shows his right arm up still holding a camera. It was not certain where his remains were, or what happened to his camera.
Read more about his life, work and family:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070929TDY02006.htm
For we are all human -- Please send Metta (Loving Kindness) for all who died in Burma and those still suffering.
A Japanese embassy physician ascertained that a bullet entered Nagai's chest, traveled through his heart and exited via his back.
Nagai is pronounced "Nar Gi Yee" -- Gi rhyming with "I"
Earlier reports said he "died later" and was still alive in first video frame which shows his right arm up still holding a camera. It was not certain where his remains were, or what happened to his camera.
Read more about his life, work and family:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070929TDY02006.htm
For we are all human -- Please send Metta (Loving Kindness) for all who died in Burma and those still suffering.
Floral Tribute for Monks and People of Burma
Tripitaka Roses -- Photo copyright Kyi May KaungTripitaka-- The Three Baskets of the Law-
Hpaya (The Buddha), Taya (The Dharma), Thanga (The Sangha or Clergy)
"The Three 'Thar' or Sons"
1. Students
2. Monks
3. Soldiers
The best Burmese language radio station based overseas.
I always knew this from having worked both sides of the mike --
but now it is confirmed:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ACA4D11F-9E95-4054-AD04-F7009EBE9B2C.htm
Thank you DVB and your brave Citizen Journalists -- take care and be safe.
but now it is confirmed:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ACA4D11F-9E95-4054-AD04-F7009EBE9B2C.htm
Thank you DVB and your brave Citizen Journalists -- take care and be safe.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Worser and Worser in Burma -- Sept. 27, 2007.
The latest news is the military junta's forces are showing no mercy and using live ammo.
A Japanese photo-journalist was reported shot in chest and killed and photos are circulating on the Burmese dissident and blog sites.
Here is link to my article on The Wild River Review Blog -- on the cultural and historical context of it all --
written on the 24th -- before the crackdown on the 26th.
http://blogs.targetx.com/wildriverreview/penworldvoices/
A Japanese photo-journalist was reported shot in chest and killed and photos are circulating on the Burmese dissident and blog sites.
Here is link to my article on The Wild River Review Blog -- on the cultural and historical context of it all --
written on the 24th -- before the crackdown on the 26th.
http://blogs.targetx.com/wildriverreview/penworldvoices/
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
It's happened, dreaded crackdown on monks in Burma
Wed, 26 Sep 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/26/myanmar.crackdown/index.html
Very sad to find out I was right after all when I said on air yesterday "Crackdown will come in 24 hours."
I bought red roses yesterday on my way back from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation office, and prayed and painted for the monks and the people of Burma.
This morning as I opened my eyes, I imagined the ghosts of protestors crowded into my shrine room.
Two different articles I wrote about recent events in Burma will be on line in a few hours.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/26/myanmar.crackdown/index.html
Very sad to find out I was right after all when I said on air yesterday "Crackdown will come in 24 hours."
I bought red roses yesterday on my way back from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation office, and prayed and painted for the monks and the people of Burma.
This morning as I opened my eyes, I imagined the ghosts of protestors crowded into my shrine room.
Two different articles I wrote about recent events in Burma will be on line in a few hours.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Burma: From Shadow International Development Secretary
See statement below which went out today from Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow International Development Secretary
Mitchell: Key moment for Burma
Commenting on the protests in Burma, Conservative International Development spokesman Andrew Mitchell MP, who earlier this year became the first senior elected British politician in over a decade to hold a face-to-face meeting with the country's military regime, said:
"This is a key moment for Burma. There must be meaningful negotiation between the vile, illegitimate military regime which has stolen Burma's democracy and members of the democratic movement. There must be no repeat of the bloody crackdowns of 1988 and 1996.
Clearly arrangements must be agreed for the military to transition to a proper place in Burmese society. As I saw in Rangoon earlier this year, there are elements within the regime that, however grudgingly, understand that the present position is untenable. These less intransigent elements of the regime must ensure that this opportunity to bring peace and an end to ethnic cleansing to Burma is seized.
I call for the immediate release, unconditionally, of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as the first move in this process.
The British Government should now use every lever at its disposal to help promote a peaceful transition to democracy.
We look to the international community and especially China and India (the world's largest democracy) to ensure that at last some meaningful progress can be made.
The world should present the regime with a common, clear set of benchmarks and deadlines for real progress towards peace and meaningful dialogue with the legitimate representatives of the Burmese people.
We look to the British Foreign Secretary to pursue vigorously this agenda in New York next week."
Notes to Editors
In March 2007 Andrew Mitchell visited Burma and held the first face-to-face meeting in a decade between a senior member of the brutal military junta and an elected British politician.
He told U Kyaw Thu, the Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and a former brigadier general, that the regime running Burma is wicked and illegitimate. He said: "People in the West regard your Government as a pariah state. You spend only a dollar a year per head on health and education and people are suffering terribly up and down the land."
He also held meetings with senior members of the National League for Democracy and other opposition figures including the leaders of the 1988 student revolt.
After leaving Rangoon he travelled to Karen State on the Thai-Burma border. He visited the Ei Tu Hta camp for internally displaced people, where he heard fresh evidence of renewed ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burmese Army as part of their 50-year-old war against rebel groups. He heard shocking first-hand accounts of the torture and violence used by the Burmese army in their attempts to suppress the uprising.
Video diary
During his visit Andrew Mitchell made a video diary, which can be seen here:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=kqnK4ta1Xgo&mode=related&search=
The film contains rare footage from inside the closed and oppressive regime and shocking first-hand accounts of torture and ethnic cleansing in the conflict-stricken Karen state on the Thai/Burma border.
Andrew visited Burma between 1st-3rd March 2007.
Mitchell: Key moment for Burma
Commenting on the protests in Burma, Conservative International Development spokesman Andrew Mitchell MP, who earlier this year became the first senior elected British politician in over a decade to hold a face-to-face meeting with the country's military regime, said:
"This is a key moment for Burma. There must be meaningful negotiation between the vile, illegitimate military regime which has stolen Burma's democracy and members of the democratic movement. There must be no repeat of the bloody crackdowns of 1988 and 1996.
Clearly arrangements must be agreed for the military to transition to a proper place in Burmese society. As I saw in Rangoon earlier this year, there are elements within the regime that, however grudgingly, understand that the present position is untenable. These less intransigent elements of the regime must ensure that this opportunity to bring peace and an end to ethnic cleansing to Burma is seized.
I call for the immediate release, unconditionally, of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as the first move in this process.
The British Government should now use every lever at its disposal to help promote a peaceful transition to democracy.
We look to the international community and especially China and India (the world's largest democracy) to ensure that at last some meaningful progress can be made.
The world should present the regime with a common, clear set of benchmarks and deadlines for real progress towards peace and meaningful dialogue with the legitimate representatives of the Burmese people.
We look to the British Foreign Secretary to pursue vigorously this agenda in New York next week."
Notes to Editors
In March 2007 Andrew Mitchell visited Burma and held the first face-to-face meeting in a decade between a senior member of the brutal military junta and an elected British politician.
He told U Kyaw Thu, the Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and a former brigadier general, that the regime running Burma is wicked and illegitimate. He said: "People in the West regard your Government as a pariah state. You spend only a dollar a year per head on health and education and people are suffering terribly up and down the land."
He also held meetings with senior members of the National League for Democracy and other opposition figures including the leaders of the 1988 student revolt.
After leaving Rangoon he travelled to Karen State on the Thai-Burma border. He visited the Ei Tu Hta camp for internally displaced people, where he heard fresh evidence of renewed ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burmese Army as part of their 50-year-old war against rebel groups. He heard shocking first-hand accounts of the torture and violence used by the Burmese army in their attempts to suppress the uprising.
Video diary
During his visit Andrew Mitchell made a video diary, which can be seen here:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=kqnK4ta1Xgo&mode=related&search=
The film contains rare footage from inside the closed and oppressive regime and shocking first-hand accounts of torture and ethnic cleansing in the conflict-stricken Karen state on the Thai/Burma border.
Andrew visited Burma between 1st-3rd March 2007.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
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