Aug 11, 2013 | News / Article
by Khin Maung Soe The banned Communist Party of Burma (CPB) claims it played a key role in the 1988 student-led, pro-democracy uprising in Myanmar, saying its ironic use of “multiparty democracy” as a slogan for ousting the country’s dictatorship...
Aug 11, 2013 | News / Article
DW The military coup of 1988 brutally ended the opposition’s dream of democracy, it seemed. Today there is evidence of democratization in Myanmar. But experts continue to speculate over the reasons and motives behind this. After the military took power in...
Aug 11, 2013 | News / Article
By Zin Linn On Thursday Burmese people around the country commemorated the 25th Anniversary of the 1988 People’s Democracy Revolution. In the past, no remembrances were allowed to mark the 8888 anniversary in Burma, and this year heavy police security was be seen in...
Aug 11, 2013 | News / Article
by Nay Rain Kyaw A Myanmar activist held for a week in Yangon’s Insein prison has staged a hunger strike to protest his arrest over his role in an anti-land grabbing campaign, fellow activists said Friday. Htin Kyaw began his hunger strike four days ago after he was...
Aug 10, 2013 | News / Article
By Charlie Campbell The wrinkled limestone karst landscape of the Thai-Burmese border is home to around 130,000 Burmese refugees. Many who fled decades of ethnic conflict have lost their lands, families and livelihoods, and countless children born in makeshift camps...
Aug 9, 2013 | News / Article
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WAYNE, Indiana — A Burmese woman who moved to Indiana in search of a better life for her family is struggling to raise money to bring home the body of a teenage son killed by a train in Ohio. Ka Te Za lost her 13-year-old son, Hu Sein, Sunday...
