Tag Archives : Burma

Aung San Suu Kyi is a living legend not only because she is fighting against oppressed regime which had put her under house arrest for 15 years but also because she kept her personal life on hold for almost a decade. She made a tough brave decision not to be with her family when it needed her the most as she felt call of her country was more important.  [...]

The United Nations recently announced that internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, housed in refugee camps since the time they fled their homes during the final and fatal offensive against the LTTE, can now go back to their homes. The questions are whether they still have homes to go back to and how safe is it for them to go back. The Sri [...]

Although suffering a steady and growing censorship, more and more Chinese use the Internet to express their opinion using the great ease to write good articles, and at the same time circumvent government control. “The Chinese bloggers are the smartest in the world. In addition to writing a good and interesting article, they should think how to [...]

The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on earth: North Korea is the nadir of freedom [...]

Burmese Court and Burma’s military dictatorship did what the world and Aung San Suu Kyi herself had been speculating. They found her guilty of violating terms of previous house arrest and sentenced her to 18 more months of house arrest. She had committed ‘crime’ of giving shelter to an eccentric American. Meanwhile American John Yettaw too will [...]

This question seems totally meaningless. Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of her life between prison and house-arrest. The verdict at the end of this week will again be one of the two. Freedom and justice will again be denied to world’s most popular brave Burmese opposition leader and to the people of Burma. The trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung [...]

The term Third World should not be based on any political or economic criteria. Whose arbitrary criteria are those, anyway? But there may be common characteristics today, post-Cold War, among so-called ‘Third World’ countries. The aggregate term ‘Third World’ has come to mean: 1. The demand and receipt of foreign aid (more aptly called Western [...]

The tragedy of the Rohingya refugees occupies a special issue in the migrant debate as it has affected many ASEAN member countries. The Rohingya boat people, part of a Muslim minority group living in western Burma’s Arakan State, fled their country in waves over the recent months because of the tremendous pressure they were under from the military [...]