Conflicts / Tags / Myanmar

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday. The soaring death toll was announced as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Apr 10, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Fifty-four illegal migrant workers from Myanmar suffocated in the back of an unventilated truck Thursday, while the rest of the passengers being smuggled to Thailand pounded on the container and screamed in vain for the driver's help. More than 100 mig.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Hundreds of political prisoners locked in a Myanmar police compound are facing squalid living conditions following a massive government crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations staged in late September, a political activist leader hiding in Yang.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Oct 3, 2007 @ 3:43pm neoform

Reuters -- Myanmar's junta released 80 monks and 149 women believed to be nuns rounded up last week in a crackdown on the biggest anti-government protests in nearly 20 years, one of those freed and relatives said on Wednesday. Five local journalists, one of whom.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Oct 2, 2007 @ 12:43am neoform

Google Associated Press -- Sylvester Stallone says he and his "Rambo" sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border. "I witnessed the aftermath — survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injur.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Myanmar's security forces fired automatic weapons into a crowd of anti-government protesters, after attempts to clear them from the streets on Yangon, reports said Thursday. A Japanese national was shot and killed by the military junta, the Japanese Forei.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 1:57pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Myanmar's military rulers have deployed soldiers and riot police around at least six big monasteries in the commercial capital, Yangon, setting the stage for a showdown with determined pro-democracy protesters. Hundreds more security forces were waiti.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

USA Today -- Some 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military. As the m.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A U.N. human rights investigator says he has met with several prominent political prisoners before ending his five-day mission to Myanmar. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro was sent by the U.N. to investigate allegations of widespread abuse in connection with the jun.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Oct 20, 2007 @ 12:15pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Women in several countries have begun sending their panties to Myanmar embassies in a culturally insulting gesture of protest against the recent brutal crackdown there, a campaign supporter said Friday. "It's an extremely strong message in Burmese and.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Oct 15, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari said Monday that recent reports of dissidents arrested in Myanmar were "extremely disturbing" and called on the country's military junta to immediately halt its crackdown. "It runs counter to the spirit of mutual engagement betw.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

MSNBC -- Among 10 people the junta says were killed, the death of a Japanese video journalist, Kenji Nagai, 50, shot dead when troops opened fire on a crowd of chanting protesters, has added to the international outrage. A Japanese envoy has arrived to ensure a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

MSNBC -- Japan said it would decide whether to suspend humanitarian aid for Myanmar after investigating the killing. The monks, who turned what started as small protests against shock fuel price rises into a mass uprising by lending their huge moral weight to d.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Myanmar's state-run media has said that at least nine people were killed during protests on the streets of Myanmar's main city, Yangon, on Thursday. Al Jazeera exclusive from inside Myanmar However, activists on the ground in Myanmar, formerly know.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

Al Jazeera -- But some commentators believe the presence of the abbots, or Sayadaw, on the streets could provide the tipping point for the overthrow of the military government. Goh Seng Chai, Malaysia's representative to the Bangkok-based World Fellowship of Buddhi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- The diplomat said the junta had deployed more security forces around Suu Kyi's house and on the road leading to it, and that more than 100 soldiers were now inside the compound. Dramatic images of the recent protests, many transmitted by dissidents usi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Khin Maung Win of the Democratic Voice of Burma media group told Al Jazeera: "We can confirm eight dead. Among them, five are Bhuddist monks and three [are] civilians. "Two others were also hospitalised, and there are many others wounded." Monks.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 24, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar’s biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 12:32pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- That call was echoed by the US state department, which also condemned the detention of other Myanmar activists, saying it showed the military government had "renewed its assault on human rights". Growing callsEarlier in the week the Association of Sou.. Read More