Burma discusses version of democracy

Oct 24, 2006 | Articles

Jonathan Head  Burma has been ruled by the military for 44 years, but that could be about to change if the lofty goals set by the country's National Convention are met.  Delegates to the convention, which has been meeting for most of this month, said...

International Religious Freedom Report 2005 on Burma

Oct 24, 2006 | Report

Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The country has been ruled since 1962 by highly repressive, authoritarian military regimes. Since 1988, when the armed forces brutally suppressed massive pro-democracy demonstrations, a junta composed...

The advent of Islam in Arakan and the Rohingyas

Oct 22, 2006 | Rohingya History

The advent of Islam in Arakan and the Rohingya presented at the Seminar organised by Arakan Historical Society at Chittagong Zila Parishad Hall, Chittagong, on December 31, 1995, with Co-operation Chittagong University. Dr.Mohammed Ali Chowdhury Arakan is one of...

The Crescent in Arakan

Oct 22, 2006 | Rohingya History

“The Crescent in Arakan “is a view of an Israeli expert Moshe Yegar of Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  Muslim Settlement in Arakan Moshe Yegar The Arakan District, extending some 350 miles along the eastern shores of the Bay of Bengal is cut...