Khin nyunt biography of mahatma
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The Resistance of the Monks
© John Emerson
The regime’s use of mass arrests, murder, torture, and imprisonment has failed to extinguish our desire for the freedom that was stolen from us. We have taken their best slag. Now it is the generals who must fear the consequences of their actions. We adhere to nonviolence, but our spine is made of steel. There is no turning back. It matters little if my life or the lives of colleagues should be sacrificed on this journey. Others will fill our sandals, and more will join and follow.
—Buddhist monk and protest leader U Gambira, November
I’m being watched all the time. I am considered an en person eller ett verktyg som arrangerar eller strukturerar saker. Between noon and 2 p.m. I am allowed to go out of the monastery. But then I’m followed. I had to shake off my svans to come to this meeting today. I’m not afraid, not for myself. I’m not afraid to tell foreign journalists what happened. And I’m prepared to march again when the opportunity arises. We don’t want this junta. And that’s what everyo•
Burmas Demonstrations and the Rise of Aung San Suu Kyi
Political activist. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Political prisoner and inspiration to millions of people around the world. Aung San Suu Kyi won 59% of the national votes in the general election and 81% of the seats in Parliament. But she was seen as a threat to the ruling military junta and was placed under house arrest from July 20, until her release on November 13, Marshall Adair was the Political/Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon (now Yangon) and witnessed the military crackdown and massacre beneath General Saw Maung as well as the mass demonstrations for democracy beginning August 8, , which led to the rise to prominence of Burmas Iron Lady. Adair was interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy beginning in September
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A Not-so quiet Place
ADAIR: One of the posts that I bid on was Rangoon, Burma the position of political economic counselor…no
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Four. Manipur: The Eternal Imbroglio
Lintner, Bertil. "Four. Manipur: The Eternal Imbroglio". Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier, New Haven: Yale University Press, , pp.
Lintner, B. (). Four. Manipur: The Eternal Imbroglio. In Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier (pp. ). New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lintner, B. Four. Manipur: The Eternal Imbroglio. Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.
Lintner, Bertil. "Four. Manipur: The Eternal Imbroglio" In Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier, New Haven: Yale University Press,
Lintner B. Four. Manipur: The Eternal Imbroglio. In: Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press; p
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