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POPSAung San Suu Kyi Found Guilty of Breaking House Arrest And the beat goes on. The excuse they used this time to hold her came in the form of some American fool who snuck into her home, against her wishes, telling of a dream he had of her assassination. Of course, they would have just made up some other flimsy reason to keep her locked away from her followers. I somehow doubt Obama is going to send anyone to Burma to rescue this guy. There is hope though, Burma has been identified as possibly receiving nuclear plans from North Korea. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/21/burma-north-korea-nuclear-clinton
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POPSBurma sentences blogger to 20 years Nay Phone Latt was sentenced for using the internet. There is an urgent need now for bloggers all over the world to demonstrate their solidarity with Nay Phone Latt by posting his photo on their blog and by writing to Burmese embassies worldwide to request his release. This website has a picture of Nay Phone Latt http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/11/11/burmese-blogger-nay-phone-latt-sentenced-to-twenty-years-and-six-months/ Type his name into a search engine to learn more about his case.
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POPSHitler of Asia is Ruling Burma today Military Junta refused to allow anything foreign to help its own starving, homeless citizens after a hurricane hit the nation. The Gods have to strike the Junta to set free the people of this once peaceful nation.
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POPSNatural Disaster Evolves Into Man-Made Catastrophe "We have small helicopters to drop food, and we have doctors." The USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, and its battle group have been waiting to join in the relief effort as well. U.S. Marine flights from their makeshift headquarters in Utapao, Thailand, continued Saturday — bringing the total to 500,000 pounds of aid delivered. Britain's prime minister accused authorities in Burma of behaving inhumanely by preventing foreign aid from reaching victims. "This is inhuman," Gordon Brown told the British Broadcasting Corp. Brown said a natural disaster "is being made into a man-made catastrophe by the negligence, the neglect and the inhuman treatment of the Burmese people by a regime that is failing to act.
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POPSBurma's Junta Counts Its Fake Votes, Millions In Peril
GRAPHIC PHOTO A US diplomat based in Rangoon claims the figure may be as high as 100,000 dead. The junta trumpeted what it claimed was a "massive turnout" in its constitutional referendum on Saturday, as thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and emergency relief specialists waited on tarmacs around the world for permission to enter the country. "Diarrhoea rates are very high in many of the affected townships; for children under five, diarrhoea is a disaster, adding, malaria and dengue were endemic to this region. United Nations agencies are concerned that there are hundreds of thousands of traumatised, injured people and that if they do not get medical treatment, they will die. Doctors in one hospital were treating up to 5000 outpatients a day, said Unicef's health chief in Rangoon. "They are exhausted. They are working long hours and they really need support. "They are full of patients and they cannot be treated properly due to a lack of human resources and drugs."
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POPSHundreds killed by Burma Cyclone A trishaw driver in Rangoon, who did not want to be identified, complained that the security forces were not doing enough to help. "Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians?" he asked. "They should come out in full force and help clean up the areas and restore electricity." There is a video but you have to go to the site to see it.
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POPSSara Bard Field (1882-1974): Poet and Suffragist Sara Bard Field A writer and propagandist but also a poet, she was a woman of exceptional character. From Quaker origins, at the age of 18 she married a minister and went with him to live in Burma. When they saw the poverty and diseases in Rangoon, they both became Socialists. It was Clarence Darrow who introduced Sara to Charles Erskine Wood in 1918. For him she left her husband and they eventually married and lived a fulfilling life to the end. They were both of them radical intellectuals, interested in living a good life, surrounded by artists, but also extremely generous and compassionate. Sara worked for ten years as a Suffragette and was responsible for the organisation of the College of Equal Suffrage, with Alice Paul. powys-lannion.net "SARA AND ERSKINE, AN AMERICAN ROMANCE", a biography by Dona Munker
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POPSBurmese Days Earlier this month censors forced the weekly Myanmar Times to skip an issue after it reported a 15,556 per cent increase in the cost of a satellite television licence. The price rise was seen as an attempt to limit access to foreign media. (DT)
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POPSLatest on the fate of Burmese protesters Prosecutions of those detained in September's protests in Burma are beginning. The government says it plans to prosecute only those involved in violent protests; international observers say many thousands are still in detention or unaccounted for.
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POPS Buddhist Monks Return To Streets In Burma Hundreds remain in jail, according to diplomats, although the junta on Wednesday released seven people, including members of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD)
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