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POPS Myanmar's fascist junta extends Suu Kyi house arrest Those who showed their incompetence to aid the cyclone victims, proving their determinism to oppress Myanmar people. If this knave, filthy junta still holds the power and dares to extend Suu Kyi's arrest arrogantly, only one thing can be said: Shame on the world.
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POPSHow Not to Run a Government People are dying by the thousands in Burma and all the government can think of is protecting itself from a hostile people demanding change. I am praying for that very uprising to take place and this self-serving junta military government gets sent packing. I am sure these rulers are getting three squares a day and then some.
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POPSU.N. Suspends Aid Shipments To Myanmar After Government Confiscates Donations White House: Myanmar OKs One U.S. Aid Delivery Earlier Friday, Ky Luu, director of the U.S. office of foreign disaster assistance, had said that skilled aid workers were being forced to sit on the sidelines as victims of last week's cyclone die. His comments reflect mounting frustration among the United States and other countries as they wait for permission from the military-led government to begin trying to help. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354722,00.html
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POPSHuman Tragedy Granted, Myanmar has a terrible track record of human abuse. Their government is cuel and dictatorial. Yet for the US to offer a paultry $250,000 is an insult and shows a deep lack of humanity. The people of Myanmar are not the corrupt military dictatorship. Yet, it seems as though we are making them pay to score political points. Something is not right here.
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POPS EU Tightens Sanctions On Burma Military Junta China, Myanmar's closest ally and one of its biggest trading partners, has ruled out imposing sanctions. We discussed the Asean charter only, no other issues,'' Myanmar Foreign Minister U Nyan Win told reporters in Singapore today. ``We don't want to discuss our issue.'' The European Union called for ``genuine'' dialogue for national reconciliation in Myanmar, according to a draft statement to be released after a meeting between the EU and the 10-member Asean group in Singapore on Nov. 22.
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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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POPS The Sham Pro-Junta Rally In Yangon Myanmar Arrests 4 Prominent Activists Myanmar has repeatedly rebuffed the world's criticism, declaring Friday it would stick to its own plan to draft a new constitution and eventually hold elections -- a plan critics say has no clear timetable and is a ruse to allow the military to hold onto power. On Saturday, the junta organized a mass rally in Yangon to denounce Western powers and the foreign media, whom the military regime accuses of fomenting the recent protests.
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POPS Pulling Back From The Brink The Security Council, the only UN body with the authority to enforce its demands, has never considered action against Burma for fear of drawing China’s veto. China, a major trading partner with Burma, has historically been reluctant to censure other countries’ human rights records.
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POPS Murdered Monks Bodies Dumped In Jungle
About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests. The detained monks have been disrobed and shackled, according to sources quoted by BBC Radio's Burmese service. The reports follow claims from a former intelligence officer in Burma's ruling junta that thousands of protesters have been killed and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle. News of the jailings comes after a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta revealed the true extent of killings to clamp down on protests. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand." Mr Win said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. His defection will raise a faint hope among tens of thousands of Burmese who have fled to villages along the Thai border.
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POPSBurma, Chevron, slave labor, Rice and more The pipeline was built with slave labor, forced into servitude by the Burmese military. The original pipeline partner, Unocal, was sued by EarthRights International for the use of slave labor. As soon as the suit was settled out of court, Chevron bought Unocal. Chevron’s role in propping up the brutal regime in Burma is clear. Rice served on the Chevron board of directors for a decade. She even had a Chevron oil tanker named after her. While she served on the board, Chevron was sued for involvement in the killing of nonviolent protesters in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Like the Burmese, Nigerians suffer political repression and pollution where oil and gas are extracted and they live in dire poverty. The protests in Burma were actually triggered by a government-imposed increase in fuel prices.
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POPS'Blood' rubies bankroll Burmese junta If you buy a ruby, chances are you're funding the oppressive military regime in Burma. According to CNN, the U.S. government does not ban the import of rubies which have been cut and processed in countries other than Burma, which apparently all of them are. Therefore, the ban is technically meaningless.
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POPSBurma's rotten regime financed by many countries The rotten regime in Burma is being financed by "money grubbers" from many different countries - human rights are being trampled by people wishing ti "make a buck". Let's start identifying these nasties in our midst!
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POPSBURMA NOW: KILLINGS BEHIND THE SCENES Bamadwe - di hma : http://www.austinatlarge.org/Resist/001_A_005_tunn.mp3 These reports are filtering out and should not be taken lightly - evidence is emerging that those who are listed as missing are being killed without any record of their death - these people are then made "permanently missing" a terrifying attempt at erasing their lives, struggle and cause. I post this in part for burmese who may see it and click on the audio.
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POPS Who's Enabling Burma's Junta? Within minutes, recalls Niang, a 47-year-old gem dealer, riot squads appeared; three truckloads of soldiers began to dismount and, without warning, opened fire. "We saw people fall down and saw blood in the street," Niang told me on the phone from her home. "Everyone was running. It was terrible." The last time Burma saw such widespread protests was in 1988, when pro-democracy student activists took to the street. The government answered in full force, massacring 3,000 and arresting many more.
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POPSBurmese Monks: Brave and Peaceful Freedom Fighters We may never know the true number of murdered civilians, or the fate of many monks and others who have been abducted. We do know that, despite arrests, tear gas, the closing of monasteries and flying bullets, the protest continues, at least for now.
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POPSko-htike still receiving info from besieged Myanmar residents The people who are providing information to this young man's website are putting their lives in danger....I will not be surprised when they start pinging the cell phones and rounding up these people. Most don't even seem to have been involved in peaceful demonstrations, yet just traveling on ordinary daily business through town. Call or email your Congressional delegation. They can make a resolution of condemnation of the Mynamar junta who replaced the civilian government, if they are not afraid of the strong Chinese military relationship with the Burmese military junta.
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