tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:22:19 +0000Online NewsTranslated ArticlesCommentariesUpdates from BurmaCampaignsNoticesInterviewsVideo ClipsAn English Language News Blog Covering the Saffron Revolution in Burma<br> Run by International Burmese Studentshttp://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (icyflame)Blogger527125en-usnoAn English Language News Blog Covering the Saffron Revolution in Burma Run by International Burmese StudentsAn English Language News Blog Covering the Saffron Revolution in Burma Run by International Burmese Studentsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-4102804564441436828Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:11:00 +00002007-12-14T22:16:53.222+06:30NoticesDear ReadersThank you for your continued support throughout the past few months. In order to bring you updated news from inside Burma, we're consolidating our efforts, and we will now be posting news as part of Burmese Bloggers Without Borders.Read us now at http://bbwob.blogspot.com/http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/burmese-bloggers-without-borders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-6572789069617711258Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:07:00 +00002007-12-13T19:49:11.654+06:30Translated ArticlesSource: Nik NaymanAccording to a soldier, part of a regiment on duty at one of Rangoon's universities, government agents have been compiling details of 9 university students whom they suspect have been involved in politics. They apparently took leading roles in the Saffron Revolution in September along with the monks. The agents are reported to have obtained their full names and their addresses, http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/news-from-inside-burma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-3053927237770934448Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:24:00 +00002007-12-13T20:55:04.513+06:30Online NewsVideo ClipsSource: Ch 4 NewsNew pictures reveal the scale of Burma's brutal crackdown against anti-government protestors as the UN delivers its damning report.To view the video, please click here.http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-footage-on-burmas-protests.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-347060305744272566Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:25:00 +00002007-12-11T18:58:25.595+06:30CommentariesSource: Deutsche Presse-Agentur via Monster & CriticsIf anyone deserves a Nobel peace prize this year, it's Myanmar's people and the Buddhist monkhood for daring to take to the streets against a brutish regime that has mired their country in poverty and backwardness for the past four and a half decades.For the full report, please click here.http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/myanmars-people-rise-to-occasion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-2189299742681213903Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:23:00 +00002007-12-11T18:54:55.967+06:30Online NewsSource: agence France-PresseUS First Lady Laura Bush on Monday called on Myanmar's military rulers to free democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and urged the country's neighbors to pile pressure on the regime for political freedoms.Surrounded by some of US President George W. Bush's top foreign policy advisers for Asia, Laura Bush said junta leader Than Shwe had offered "only token gestures" of reformhttp://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/laura-bush-calls-fro-democracy-in-burma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-1209345909342192896Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:11:00 +00002007-12-10T20:43:15.090+06:30Online NewsSource: ReutersThe international community's "patience is running out" with military-ruled Myanmar and foot-dragging over its moves towards democracy, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said on MondFay."I hope the Myanmar authorities will take it very seriously," Ban said during a visit to Thailand, where he urged the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which the former http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/uns-ban-says-patience-running-out-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-7832641767824279524Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:01:00 +00002007-12-07T19:52:13.666+06:30CampaignsTranslated ArticlesSource: Ko HtikeA group of overseas Burmese have started a campaign offering a monetary reward for the assassination (or capture) of junta leader, Than Shwe. An announcement was put up on the 5th December at Ko Htike’s blog to alert readers to the campaign. A well-known blogger who gained recognition for up-to-date news about the Saffron Revolution, Ko Htike wrote in the post that anyone who http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/wanted-dead-or-alive-than-shwe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-925179388553320654Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:50:00 +00002007-12-07T20:21:55.525+06:30Online NewsSource: Narinjara NewsMany monks in Arakan State are boycotting the government exam by refusing to register their name for enrollment, in support of the monk alliance that has called for the boycott."Today is the last date of enrolling for the exam but many monks in Arakan State neglected to enroll their name. I heard many monks will not come to enroll for the exam," a monk from Sittwe http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/monks-boycott-exams.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-1204194979702679610Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:37:00 +00002007-12-07T20:11:26.991+06:30Online NewsSource: ReutersTighter Western sanctions imposed on army-ruled Myanmar after its bloody crackdown on democracy protests will have little direct impact on the economy, the International Monetary Fund said in a report."The overall impact is limited because of restrictions already in place and because the new sanctions cover only a small proportion of trade," the IMF said in its annual review of thehttp://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/imf-sees-limited-sanctions-impact-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-5571570795353975522Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:37:00 +00002007-12-10T20:38:27.199+06:30Online NewsSource: The IrrawaddyThe next chief of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations says that the United States remains the only guarantor of Southeast Asian security and should become more active in regional affairs.Surin Pitsuwan, a former foreign minister of Thailand, said one reason that Washington has neglected its Southeast Asian friends is that the Bush administration has been distracted by http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/aseans-next-chief-appeals-for-greater.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-2384464058814012066Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:07:00 +00002007-12-07T20:02:34.799+06:30Online NewsSource: ReutersArrests Continue Amidst International InactionMany more people were killed and detained in the violent government crackdown on monks and other peaceful protestors in September 2007 than the Burmese government has admitted, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report. Since the crackdown, the military regime has brought to bear the full force of its authoritarian apparatus to http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/burma-crackdown-bloodier-than.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-7450125209548251881Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:45:00 +00002007-12-07T19:52:37.033+06:30Online News Source: Financial Times A senior United Nations official expelled from Burma this week warned on Wednesday that a &#8220;more volatile situation&#8221; lay ahead if the country&#8217;s military regime refused to recognise that recent mass protests stemmed from common people&#8217;s anger over economic woes. In an interview with the Financial Times, Charles Petrie, who until his expulsion on http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/burma-junta-warned-of-growing-anger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-6777839222940212781Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:43:00 +00002007-12-07T19:52:37.033+06:30Online News Source: ABS CBN The release of Myanmar&#8217;s opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be a key factor in the Philippines&#8217; decision to ratify a new charter for a regional grouping, President Arroyo has said. Mrs. Arroyo, striking a tough posture, told the Financial Times that Myanmar&#8217;s military rulers must comply with the human rights elements in the charter of the Associationhttp://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/manila-links-suu-kyis-release-to-asean.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-5475382552466599328Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:41:00 +00002007-12-07T20:14:59.009+06:30Online NewsSource: ReutersTwenty people are known to have been killed in a crackdown by Myanmar's military junta on September's pro-democracy protests, but the real toll is likely to be far higher, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday.In addition to monks, many students and other civilians were killed, although without full and independent access to the country it is impossible to determine the exact http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/myanmar-crackdown-death-toll-seen-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-6171172162522431283Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:19:00 +00002007-12-07T19:52:37.034+06:30Online News Source: The Irrawaddy Farmers in Pegu Division, about 80km north of Rangoon, are being instructed by local authorities to grow them, in the apparent superstitious belief that the flowers symbolize long life for the regime. For the full report, please follow this link: http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9522 http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/sunflowers-than-shwes-latest-yadaya.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-3324628366645689170Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:13:00 +00002007-12-07T19:52:37.034+06:30Online News Source: The Irrawaddy Burma&#8217;s Information Minister, Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, has appealed to journalists in neighboring countries to help counter negative news about events in his country. The state-run daily, The New Light of Myanmar, reported on Wednesday that Kyaw Hsan had claimed at an Asean sub-committee meeting that &#8220;some powerful nations are misusing media as a weapon to http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/regime-asks-asean-journalists-to-help.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-4021721511812883955Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:11:00 +00002007-12-07T19:52:37.035+06:30Online News Source: The Irrawaddy China is still providing military arms to the Burmese government, including a recent shipment of artillery cannons that were seen crossing the China-Burmese border on November 6, according to sources who observed the shipment. A witness on the China-Burmese border told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that 21 artillery canons were seen on seven large trucks crossing through http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/chinese-military-weapons-seen-en-route.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-4273089170778907358Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:10:00 +00002007-12-07T19:55:14.651+06:30Online News Source: Reuters The United Nations Security Council should impose an arms embargo on Burma in response to the Burmese military government's continuing recruitment of children for its national army, Human Rights Watch said today. Tomorrow, the Security Council's working group on children and armed conflict will meet to consider a report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that has found &quot;http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/un-impose-burma-arms-embargo-to-end.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-2344479331439156402Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:17:00 +00002007-12-07T19:54:41.510+06:30Online News Source: Mizzima News Several military trucks are believed to have been supplied to the Burmese junta by China. They were seen arriving on the Sino-Burmese border town of Ruili this morning, a local eyewitness said. The light weight medium FAW trucks, manufactured by Chinese owned Tongfeng Company, were seen lining up at Ruili town, a Burmese who works at the car servicing centre told Mizzima.http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/china-supplies-military-trucks-to-burma.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-194521259691307779Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:20:00 +00002007-12-05T20:03:12.733+06:30Online News Source: International Herald Tribune The United States accused Myanmar's rulers on Tuesday of standing in the way of moving toward democracy in that Southeast Asian country by denying Aung San Suu Kyi and other opposition leaders the right to help draft a national constitution. In a prepared statement, State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said Suu Kyi made clear in a Nov. 8 statement http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/us-says-myanmar-junta-obstructing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-1029626760888095705Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:18:00 +00002007-12-05T20:03:36.785+06:30Translated Articles Source: Nik Nayman A well-known poet has been detained after reciting poetry at author Lu Du Daw A-Mar&#8217;s 90th birthday, according to sources in the Military Intelligence. For the sake of his career, the pseudonym of the poet cannot be published. Other poets, hunted by junta, have reportedly gone into hiding. One of the poets on the run said: &#8220;We were merely handing out poetry http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/poet-arrested-for-citing-poetry-at-lu.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-907699831403420648Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:53:00 +00002007-12-05T20:03:12.736+06:30Online News Source: Agence France-Presse via Yahoo News Unable to speak directly to their followers in public, two senior monks &#8211; Ashin Nyanissara and Ashin Kawvida -- have recorded their sermons on a video disc titled &quot;The end of sinful people&quot;. In the sermon, they discuss the legend of a ruthless emperor who violated the teachings of the Lord Buddha, which resulted in him, and his http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/chased-from-streets-myanmar-monks-get.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-6696984506828764997Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:06:00 +00002007-12-05T20:03:36.786+06:30Translated Articles Source: Democratic Voice of Burma U Min Lwin, the father of Saffron Revolution leader Ashin Gambira, has been released from detention a week after the family told news agencies that they did not know of his whereabouts. He has reportedly been held in a prison in Mandalay for a month after being arrested on the 4th of November. He arrived home Tuesday evening. Three other men were released http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/father-of-ashin-gambira-released-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-47807658600325745Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:43:00 +00002007-12-05T20:04:04.782+06:30Online News Source: Mizzima News In a blatant act of vindictiveness, a wedding advertisement for prominent movie actor Kyaw Thu's daughter has been banned by the Burmese military junta's censorship board, allegedly for the actor's involvement in the monk-led protests in September. &quot;As for me I have been banned from all my work like acting or directing. And my name cannot be published in any of the http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/junta-bans-wedding-announcement-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589067179191647158.post-1679720779543894837Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:41:00 +00002007-12-05T20:03:12.737+06:30Online News Source: Associated Press via International Herald Tribune The opposition party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked Myanmar's National Day on Tuesday by criticizing the military government for lowering the nation's prestige. The statement by the National League for Democracy marking the 87th anniversary of a student strike against British colonialism also called for the http://flamingpeacocks.blogspot.com/2007/12/pro-democracy-leaders-party-says.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (May)0