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Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West PDF Print E-mail
by Zoya Phan with Damien Lewis   
Wednesday, 01 July 2009 18:28
(Book review) Imagine you are walking a trail to school littered with landmines; education is restricted because you spend your life on the run between villages, living in jungles and refugee camps to avoid mortar shelling;...
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Making sense of Burma's new capital PDF Print E-mail
by Mizzima News   
Friday, 26 June 2009 18:39
(Book review) Capitals move. And capitals often move, as in the case of Burma's generals uprooting the country's administrative center from Rangoon to Naypyidaw, for quite rational and...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: The Voice of Hope PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:02
The political, social and economic tragedy that exists in present day Burma is a permanent stain on humanity. In the words of Tin Oo, Deputy Leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), “Burma is a prison within a prison.” The thoughts, movements and actions of 50 million civilians are under constant surveillance by a government obsessed with maintaining control.
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Rogue Agent: How India's Military Intelligence Betrayed the Burmese Resistance PDF Print E-mail
by Nandita Haksar   
Monday, 06 April 2009 14:21
(Book Review) Traveling east, crossing the internal border demarcating the Indian states of West Bengal and Sikkim, there is the distinct feel of entering a frontier area outside the unchallenged purview of the central state – special travel documents,
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Mizzima – On the Road to Media Freedom in a Better Burma PDF Print E-mail
by Mizzima News   
Saturday, 15 November 2008 23:03
The suffocating media environment inside Burma over the course of recent decades forced Burma’s independent media to reinvent itself in exile. Taking advantage of the flow of refugees emigrating from Burma to neighboring countries, Burma’s exile media offers opportunities for the country’s youth and professionals to work for both self and country, in the fight to restore freedom of the media and democracy inside Burma.
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