Burmese Celebrities Try to Help Survivors

By VIOLET CHO
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A planned public fundraising drive by the well-known Moustache Brothers comedy troupe to collect money to help Cyclone Nargis survivors was halted by a professional entertainer’s association in Mandalay on Thursday. 

Burmese actor Lu Min offers dry clothes to cyclone survivors.

Pope expresses hope that aid workers be allowed to help cyclone victims in Myanmar

The Associated Press
Published: May 30, 2008
 
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI expressed hope Friday that international aid and organizations would be allowed in Myanmar to help victims of the Cyclone Nargis.
The pope made the remarks in a meeting with bishops from Myanmar Friday at the Vatican.
An agreement was reached last week under which aid workers would be allowed [...]

Cyclone Nargis: Immediate and long term relief

Three-month programme will reach nearly 140,000 of the most affected survivors ActionAid has developed a three-month relief programme working through three local partner organisations to bring immediate and long term relief for survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

After French, U.S. Navy acknowledged defeat in confronting with Burma Generals

After French, U.S. Navy blinked in confronting with Burma Generals
 
After French, U.S. Navy back down in confronting with Burma Generals
US commander: Navy ships leaving Myanmar

By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military WriterWed May 28, 3:12 PM ET

The senior commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific says the Navy probably will withdraw a group of naval [...]

US sharply skeptical of Myanmar constitution

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House on Friday expressed frustration at the pace of aid flows into Myanmar after devastating Cyclone Nargis and said the ruling junta’s new constitution lacks legitimacy.

Myanmar: Monks succeed where generals falter

The people have grown much closer to Myanmar’s Buddhist monks, who provide care, aid and solace, while their alienation from the military junta has grown
By NEW YORK TIMES                                                                                                                   May 30, 2008

KUN WAN, MYANMAR – They paddle for hours on the stormy river or carry their sick parents on their backs through the mud, traveling for [...]

Calling for an immediate international intervention in Burma

National Campaign for Food and Freedom

Statement of global Burmese democratic forces and supporters
Calling for an immediate international intervention
by creating a coalition of willing

for food and freedoms in Burma
 
 
 

 
May 28, 2008
 
We, Burmese democratic organizations, along with Burma campaign groups  around the world are_

calling for an immediate international intervention in Burma,

reminding the international community [...]

Junta says that foreign aid is not needed; Nargis survivors can live on frogs

Junta says that foreign aid is not needed;
Nargis survivors can live on frogs
From Moe Thee Zun

Myanmar state media resumes its attack on western nations:
they are without humanitarian spirit if they continue to link economic aid to relief workers access to the worst hit areas. (Because SPDC could not get 99% as commission for [...]

UN: Myanmar junta forcing storm victims from camps

UN: Myanmar junta forcing storm victims from camps

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is removing cyclone victims from refugee camps and dumping them near their devastated villages with virtually no aid supplies, the United Nations said Friday.
In an aid agency meeting, the U.N. Children’s Fund said eight camps earlier set up by the government [...]

Rule of law

Rule of law
From Wikipedia
The rule of law, in its most basic form, is the principle that no one is above the law. Thomas Paine stated in his pamphlet Common Sense (1776): “For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be [...]

My comments posted on Tun Dr M’s, “THE RULE OF LAW”

Read my comments posted on Tun’s following article_
Assalamualaikum Tun,
 
TQ Tun again for the interview about Burma Politics granted to us. Tun’s wise third party vision and guidance are invaluable for us. But sadly Junta and opposition are not in a position for give-and-take policy for the benefit of the people. And both are keener to [...]

Myanmar criticized for still hindering foreign aid

People line up outside an aid tent in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 29, 2008 awaiting medical treatment. Aid and relief has been slow getting to affected areas and people after a cyclone hit southern Myanmar causing mass destruction and death. (AP Photo)

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Human rights and aid groups complained Friday that Myanmar’s military [...]

Burma: It Can’t Wait – Sylvester Stallone – Day 21

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Cyclone survivors victimised by Myanmar soldiers

 Cyclone survivors victimised by
Myanmar soldiers
 May 29, 2008 PYAPON (Myanmar) –

PYAPON, Myanmar (AP) — It’s not much, but the flimsy bamboo lean-to on the side of the road is all Aye Shwe has to keep his family dry. They lost their home to the cyclone and may soon be uprooted again — this time [...]