Word: burma
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...group’s president uses the pseudonym “Shanti Maung” to protect relatives still living in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, where she was born...
...think [the nuns] were the most motivating factor,” said rally participant Tian Feng ’11. “The dedication that they showed was similar to that shown by the monks in Burma, and that really moved...
...Square, State Rep. Byron D. Rushing ’64, D-Boston, spoke about House Bill 2729, which he introduced recently. Known as the Massachusetts Burma Bill, the legislation would allow the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board to urge companies to stop doing business in Myanmar and to suspend state pension fund investments in companies that are doing business in the country until a democratically elected government comes to power...
Members of Harvard’s Burma Action Movement will be holding an informational meeting today and will visit the Massachusetts State House on Thursday to encourage legislators to vote in favor of the Massachusetts Burma Bill...
...rulers of the world's pariah states are usually recognizable personalities. Kim Jong Il with his electrified hairdo, Muammar Gaddafi with his aviator sunglasses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals - 12, to be exact. Last week, in the junta's latest wave of repression, soldiers fired on thousands of peaceful protesters who had dared challenge its iron-fisted rule. But the question remains: Who exactly controls Burma, one of the world's most isolated regimes...