A decommissioned inquiry on Myanmar – Asia Times
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/NA10Ae01.html KUALA LUMPUR – When United Nations human-rights rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana recommended that the UN consider the establishment...
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Conflicting signals on reform in Burma (Myanmar) – Christian Science Monitor/RTÉ World Report
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0105/Conflicting-signals-on-reform-in-Burma-Myanmar radio report here http://www.rte.ie/news/player/world-report/2012/0108/ BANGKOK – Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she believes that her country...
Has North Korea Risen Above Burma? – The Irrawaddy
http://irrawaddymedia.com/article.php?art_id=19928&Submit=Submit While the Nov. 7 election scheduled for Burma has been dismissed by many observers in advance as a...
Bringing Out the Stick – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19400&Submit=Submit Having failed to induce change in Burma by dangling the carrot of reduced sanctions, the US is now...
Lifting the mask – The Irrawaddy
The author of a new biography, “Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant,” talks about the reclusive military leader of Burma...
Burma election leaves opposition divided – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18138 Burma’s military government has pledged to hold elections sometime in 2010. But far from energizing the long-oppressed opposition...
Quintana recommends war crimes commission on Burma – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18013 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, has recommended that the UN...
Forced Repatriation of Karen Refugees to Start – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17743&Submit=Submit Thai authorities will start deporting 3,000 Karen refugees living in Tha Song Yang camp back to Burma on...
What’s on the Cards When Obama Meets Thein Sein? – The Irrawaddy
http://irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=17219&Submit=Submit SINGAPORE — Continuing with the latest in a series of image-rebuilding foreign policy speeches, US President Barack Obama...