A tale of two cities in Burma: Military rule vs. monks of "the way" 5 Articles

by Anthony Mendoza

Major Hla Win, a Myanmar military officer has fled to Thailand to seek asylum after apparently refusing to follow orders to attack monks. He is the first known case of a military official fleeing the country since the jun...read more

by Tiongho Poh

Resubmit:Should Aung San Suu Kyi lead Myanmar ? Aung San Suu Kyi, (Oxford Educated) leader of National League for Democracy, won a fair and decisive election in 1990. The repressive military leaders refused to hand ov...read more

by Robert C. Sage

It is refreshing that President Bush and the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN have both spoken publicly about the need for the generals of Myanmar to avoid bloodshed and repression of the Burmese. The Buddhist monks have raised...read more

by audity

Looking at how the military junta managed to quell the recent saffron protests in Myanmar, I cannot help but feel a sense of helplessness towards the plight of the Myanmarese trapped in a dictatorship that robs their peopl...read more

by Wayland Blue

BURMESE RESPONSE TO FUEL PROTESTS Over the last few months, the nation of Burma has gone through a grater than normal period of social and civil unrest. Burma is host to the longest running civil war in modern times...read more