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Mail Call: Free the Burmese.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Readers of our Oct. 8 report and Fareed Zakaria's Oct. 15 column on Burma were shocked by the brutalization of the Buddhist monks. "Take positive action through the United Nations to end this massacre of innocents," recommended one. Another said, "Aung San Suu Kyi should be released immediately."
Brutalities in Burma
Fareed Zakaria's Oct. 15 World View on sanctions against Burma was the most concise and logical article I have read about that country ("Sleepwalking to Sanctions, Again"). At last, someone finally did some homework and read the history of Burma and what it has gone through for the last 150 years. Naturally, the Burmese don't trust ...
- Child's view of Burma's civil war; Grenades. Parental loss. Conscription. Young...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 22, 2005 700+ words
...other children in Burma, the Southeast Asian...50-plus years of civil war between the Burmese...guerrilla war The civil war in eastern Burma began in 1948 as a...and sanctions The civil war in eastern Burma is one of the longest...
- Burmese battleground. (civil war in Burma)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Kelliher, Adam March 16, 1992 700+ words
EASTERN BURMA - The results of previous attempts by the Burmese military to take Bu Thong Ridge are evident in the trenches from which guerrillas...
- Freedom strip. (civil war in Burma)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 12, 1991 700+ words
A BITTER little battle is being fought along Myanmar's border with Thailand. Myanmar has installed some 200-300 soldiers on hills beside the Salween River. The Karen and the Karenni, two of the many ethnic groups that have been fighting the government for decades, are trying to dislodge them. The
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- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel RALPH AND TERRY KOVEL May 5, 1996 700+ words
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- Looking for an angle. (political crises and civil war in Myanmar fail to...
- Magazine article from: National Review Long, Rob August 29, 1994 700+ words
...becoming rare. On a recent trip to Burma, I flew in a tidy Thai Airways...things to come. To be sure, Burma is a country in turmoil. The...Irrawaddy River, is free from civil war. On September 18, 1988, after...What was formerly known as Burma, and then as the Socialist...
- Madman's gift to the English language.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Carey, John E. July 31, 1999 700+ words
...disorder did not exist during the Civil War, of course, though family members...headaches and nightmares after the Civil War. Ultimately, his illness resulted...the seamy back streets of Rangoon, Burma; Singapore; and Bangkok. After...
- Bomb mayhem in Baghdad raises Iraqi civil war.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) March 13, 2006 700+ words
...and raising fears reprisals could pitch Iraq further toward civil war. The apparently coordinated attacks on markets in Sadr City...flu virus in chickens has been found in Myanmar, formerly Burma, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said today...
- From Civil War to Normalization
- Magazine article from: Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies Meyer, Verena May 1, 2008 700+ words
...Shalom Foundation, both from Kachin State in Myanmar/Burma; Umar bin Abdul Aziz, SOAK I, University of Passau, from...Cambodia, where pacification succeeded, can hardly be applied to Burma or Sri Lanka. In Cambodia external forces (UN-peace keeping...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mail Call: Free the Burmese.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)