All Entries Tagged With: "Junta"

US Citizen & Burmese Activist Is Arrested In Burma

South Asian Nightmare
As U.S. prepares greater outreach to Burma, a Marylander is the junta’s latest victim

By Elaine Pearson
October 2, 2009
Published in The Baltimore Sun
In June, Gaithersburg resident Kyaw Zaw Lwin traveled from Thailand to New York to deliver a petition to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special adviser on Burma. The petition, with 680,000 signatures, called [...]

Chinese Tycoons, Meitei Insurgents Cultivate Poppy In Upper Chin State

7 July 2009: Chinese tycoons and Meitei insurgents have been planting poppies in Tonzang Township, in upper Chin state near the Indo-Burma border.
According to a report, the plantation of poppies commenced from early June in Phai Sat, Ai Sit, Hai Cin, Mualpi and other villages, near the border of Tonzang Town and India’s Manipur State.
All [...]

Junta Grabs Relief Meant For Fire Victims

30 June 2009:
The Burmese military authorities have forcibly taken away most of the relief material, meant for local Chin people, who had suffered due to a fire in their village last April. The relief material had been supplied by their supporters from abroad.
According to a report, the Aizawl-based Women’s League of Chin Land (WLC) had [...]