Posted on July 3, 2008 by sanooaung
By AP/DENIS D. GRAY
Wednesday,July 02 ,2008
(BANGKOK, Thailand) — The cyclone that devastated Burma’s heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades.
Buddhist monks are regrouping after the battering they took nine months ago, civil society groups are emerging and foreign aid workers — often agents of political change [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by sanooaung
By WAI MOE
Wednesday , July 2,2008
Burma’s military junta will make an announcement in the coming months that all political parties must register in advance of the 2010 election, sources told The Irrawaddy.
Sources close to ethnic armed groups—which have maintained a ceasefire with the ruling junta since the 1990s—said that military officials told ceasefire groups to [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by sanooaung
What a circus! What a show!
Presented by the rhetoric political clowns
“The PWM meter” by W Scott Thompson in Malaysiakini Jul 2, 08
Over four hundred years ago in France, where Catholics and Protestants had waged wars for a generation, the ruling (and Catholic) Valois line of kings came to an end when the third [...]
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