Showing posts with label Myanmar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar. Show all posts

Friday, September 28, 2007

Burmese Days II

Reports are that the Buddhist monasteries are being raided, monks beaten and arrested, and that internet traffic has been silenced in the military state of Myanmar/Burma.

Social harmony is preserved at the cost of freedom and civil liberties.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Burmese Days

Burma, the world is watching, or should be; photography bears witness and sites such as flickr and you tube do more to support democracy than most governments:

demonstrations in rangoon, burma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi
http://www.dassk.com/index.php

As of this writing, nine have been killed by the government, eleven wounded.

"What is valuable can not be obtained without effort."
-- Aung San Suu Kyi