Full Coverage: Myanmar

28.09.2007 Le manifestazioni di questi giorni in Birmania e la dura repressione del regime - che ieri ha fatto nove morti tra dimostranti e reporter - ha posto all'attenzione dei media mondiali la situazione delle violazioni dei diritti umani ad opera del regime militare comandato dal generale Than Shwe. La giusta e necessaria solidarietà internazionale alla popolazione e ai dimostranti che oggi si è manifestata anche con il "fiocco rosso" da indossare e, in Italia, con sit-in a Roma e a Milano, non deve però far dimenticare che da vari anni diverse campagne denunciano le violazioni e chiedono di praticare il boicottaggio, di porre fine al turismo, all'importazione di materie e all'esportazione di armi, anche europee, verso la Birmania/Myanmar. La lista delle ditte è pubblica e ce ne sono molte di conosciute anche in Italia.

28.09.2007 Press freedom groups said Friday that Burma's military junta has stepped up its strategy of isolating the country, trying to reproduce the scenario of the 1988 massacres when witness accounts of the bloodshed only reached the outside world after it was over.
From: Reporters Without Borders, Burma Media Association

28.09.2007 "The role of the sons of Lord Buddha" by Maung Zarni; "Burma's hour of need" by Sholto Byrnes; "The world must act for Burma" by Zoya Phan; "Burma: the history behind the protests" by Michael Charney; "The way I see it" by Htein Lin.
From: New Statesman

28.09.2007 Burman kommunikaatioyhteydet ulkomaailmaan on katkaistu perjantaina. Hajanaiset raportit maasta kertovat protestien jatkumisesta ja armeijan rivien rakoilusta.

27.09.2007 As the situation in Myanmar (formerly Burma) escalates, protesters around the world are gathering outside the country's embassies, calling for an end to the violence aimed at the peaceful demonstrators.

26.09.2007 Security forces in Myanmar opened fire Wednesday on demonstrators, and witnesses said police beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups and media reported up to eight dead.

26.09.2007 At least one person was killed and five wounded during mass protests in Burma today.

26.09.2007 The voices of open dissent raised against the military regime in Burma represent a test for the international community as much as the will of the Burmese people, says Aung Zaw, editor of the online journal Irrawaddy.
From: openDemocracy

26.09.2007 Burmese security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while hauling Buddhist monks away in trucks today as they tried to stop anti-government demonstrations in defiance of a ban on assembly.

26.09.2007

25.09.2007 The Buddhist monk-led demonstrations are growing to a crescendo throughout Myanmar (formerly Burma) and deserve the support of the international community, says an Asian rights group describing powerful scenes from the streets of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and beyond.

25.09.2007 Burmese soldiers have been ordered to shave their heads, in possible preparation for infiltrating peaceful demonstrations in order to provide a pretext for a crackdown on protestors, according to democracy activists.

25.09.2007 Burman mielenosoitukset saivat alkunsa elokuussa, kun valtaa pitävä sotilasjuntta lopetti polttoaineiden hintatuen. Nyt hinnat ovat moninkertaistuneet, ruoka kallistuu ja inflaatio kiihtyy – mutta samaan aikaan juntta lisää kaasun ja öljyn myyntiä naapurimaihin.

24.09.2007 Buddhist monk-led protests against the military dictatorship of Myanmar -- formerly Burma -- have grown to include record numbers of civilians Monday, according to local sources in the tightly controlled country. It's unclear why the junta has not forcibly put down these protests, or why the jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed to greet protesters over the weekend.

21.09.2007 Uutissensuurin lisäksi paikallisia toimittajia on pidätetty ja uhkailtu. Ulkomaalaiset toimittajat eivät ole saaneet viisumia maahan elinkustannusten nousua vastustavien mielenosoitusten alettua kuukausi sitten.

21.09.2007 The use of violence and censorship against Burmese journalists trying to cover the protests that began a month ago is a “detestable strategy” aimed at preventing them from doing their jobs, media freedom groups said.

06.09.2007 Several hundred Buddhist monks seized a group of officials from Myanmar's military government after a protest march in a northern province, witnesses said.
From: Al Jazeera

06.09.2007 A protest march by hundreds of Buddhist monks in central Myanmar has been broken up by soldiers who fired warning shots and arrested several protesters, according to witnesses and exiled pro-democracy groups.
From: Al Jazeera

05.09.2007 European leaders must back the British Prime Minister in calling for concerted international action on Burma, European MP Glenys Kinnock has urged.

04.09.2007 Burmassa pidätettyjen tueksi alkavan vuorokauden mittaisen kansainvälisen nälkälakon aattona brittiläiset burma-aktivistit ovat ilahtuneita, että pääministeri Gordon Brownin yheydenotoista YK:n pääsihteeriin ja Euroopan unioniin. Brown on esittänyt neuvotteluja Burman tilanteesta.