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Here is an email from Asma Jahangir, head of the Pakistani Human Rights Commission and the UN’s Special Rapporteur for freedom of religion worldwide. Now under house arrest in Lahore, she’s one of many Pakistanis urgently asking the world community to raise our voice:
There is a strong crackdown on [...]
While China will try to assert itself as a new model of global development, opponents and the outside world will also see more and demand more of China. The coming year will be a tense one in Taiwan, where President Chen Shui-bian is pushing for constitutional reforms that China sees as a move towards de [...]
Despite the strong words at the U.N., veto-wielder China has made it clear it will not allow any formal action such as sanctions to be taken against Myanmar, where Beijing is lining up deals to buy huge reserves of natural gas.
India, another energy-hungry regional giant, is equally reluctant to act, and the army-appointed government in [...]
I saw signs of poverty everywhere in Rangoon – children with distended stomachs, people scavenging through rubbish and families buying coal to cook on open fires, owing to the intermittent and expensive electricity supply.
Outside the major cities, the situation is far worse.
Foreigners are rarely allowed into the northern and eastern states, but reports from refugees [...]
New Delhi claimed Operation Leech had smashed a group of gunrunners who had been aiding anti-Indian separatists. However the men say they are Karen National Union (KNU) and National Unity Party of Arakan (Nupa) rebels who were fighting Burma’s junta and who had been provided with arms and a sanctuary by India.
The Indian authorities [...]
Lies are unsurprising from the crazy dictators who seem to be in charge in Burma, but despite their distortion and their hunt for all cameras and cellphones inside, the truth keeps leaking out and we know the people trapped inside this nightmare are still waiting for the world to help them…
There were many arrested [...]
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