Archive for 2009
FBR REPORT: The Darkness Spreads but Hope is Alive
FBR REPORT: The Darkness Spreads but Hope is Alive Karen State, Burma 19 December, 2009 Dear friends, We are sending this out from northern Karen State. We are in the midst of resilient and hopeful people even though they are chased, shelled, and displaced by the Burma Army who are all around. We are here [...]
HRW Report: Secretary Of State Clinton New Statement On Burma
Burma: Clinton Should Press for Release of Burmese-American Arrests Continue, More Than 2,100 Political Prisoners Remain in Lead-up to Elections December 18, 2009 (New York) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should publicly call for the release of imprisoned Burmese rights activist and US citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin, currently on trial in Burma on [...]
Op-Ed On Burma By Ben Rodgers
December 18, 2009 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Where Impunity Reigns By BENEDICT ROGERS The world needs to be reminded, again and again, that the military regime in Burma (Myanmar) continues to perpetrate every conceivable human rights violation. Any Burmese showing any dissent is brutally suppressed, as the world witnessed two years ago when peaceful Buddhist monks demonstrated. [...]
The Plight Of The Karen, Karenni, Mon, & Shan People
A State of Fear By SAW YAN NAING / EASTERN BURMA OCTOBER, 2009 – VOLUME 17 NO.7 Caught in the crossfire of Burma’s civil war, hundreds of thousands of Karen, Karenni, Mon and Shan are trapped in No Man’s Land At night, my mother and I boiled rice while my sister dried our wet clothes [...]
Choicemob
We like to support and share all the great things our friends our doing. Check out James Pearson’s latest endeavour, Choicemob, and help support a business that is doing social good. Today, December 7th, is the first ever choicemob, and you’re invited. What’s a choicemob? It is a coalition of proactive consumers joining together to support [...]
FBR REPORT: Villagers Displaced By SPDC Dam Construction
FBR REPORT: Villagers displaced by SPDC dam construction; 44 square miles of villages, farms and orchards destroyed in Western Karen State, Burma Karen State, Burma 1 December, 2009 NOTE:This report was completed and is being sent out directly from the field by the Naunglebin District, Free Burma Ranger teams monitoring the building of this dam [...]
FBR REPORT: FBR Training Report – Graduation of New Ranger Teams
Karen State, Burma 6 December, 2009 Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your love and support. We are relaying this out from our training camp where we graduated new Karenni, Kayan, Mon and Karen relief teams. These 13 (of our 53 multi-ethnic relief teams ) successfully completed Leadership and Relief Team Training in Karen [...]
FBR REPORT: Widespread Forced Labor and Extortion in Western Burma
The Arakan Free Burma Rangers team has documented widespread forced labor and extortion in their mission area during October, 2009 Area of report The team interviewed villagers in Paletwa Township who testified to forced labor in constructing the army camp at Doechawnwa, as well as having to provide bamboo and other building materials. (Paletwa is [...]
Alms for 10,000 Monks
Straight out of Thailand is some video footage from Austin Flack our filmmaker. Check it out!
Help Our Friends At Invisible Children Win $1M
Recently, Chase Bank announced a Facebook campaign that they’re using to give out $5 million of our their money to the charities that receive the most votes. Whatever your opinion on these big banks may be, we think their commitment to supporting social causes is admirable. And what better way to do so than through [...]
