Word: burma
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...time to reassess our policy toward a military dictatorship that has repeatedly attacked democracy and jailed its heroes." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, in an op-ed column on the repression of dissidents by the military junta that rules Myanmar, the former Burma...
...this were Indonesia or even Burma?two countries unlikely to win press-freedom or human-rights awards any time soon?the journalists would most likely have been questioned and, after pressure was applied by foreign embassies and rights groups, released?albeit relieved of their notebooks and film. This, however, is Laos?a country that seems on the surface to be laid-back and peaceful. On the popular tourist trail between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, charming guesthouses serve fresh baguettes and coffee and offer unrestricted Internet access. Some journalists and diplomats have in the past dubbed the country's doddering apparatchiks...
...Burma, to the disgust of foreign observers, Aung San Suu Kyi is under detention?a victim of the junta's latest crackdown on her democracy movement. But she and her party have only been cowed, not crushed. In Laos, no political dissent has been allowed in 28 years, nor any right of assembly. Scores of political prisoners and youths have been detained for years in dark cells without trial; many have been tortured. Christians are persecuted, told to denounce their faith under threat of imprisonment. And there is nothing merry about the Hmong women and children trapped in the mountains...
...dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt over a great-grandfather's Jamaican slaveholdings and his father's career in the service of opium and imperialism. Perhaps to expiate all that shame, he bypassed university and became a policeman in Burma. One day he was summoned to deal with an elephant that had reportedly killed its mahout. "Shooting an Elephant," his essay on that melancholy event, aches with regret at the taking of a life, albeit an animal's. He resigned to become, as he informed a childhood sweetheart, "Eric the famous...
...Burma: Generals Under...