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...first such meeting in 43 years, calls on Burma's Prime Minister to release pro-democracy leader Aung...
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...Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who had overseen talks to try and get Zelaya back into the presidential palace. With those attempts apparently failing, sanctions and isolation of Honduras now will only punish an already poor country, Arias said. "Why do we want to make Honduras into the Burma of Central America? Why do we want a second Hurricane Mitch?" he told...
...director Tony Ellwood says the triennial specializes in breaking new ground, with APT6 presenting work "from countries that have never before been represented." These include Cambodia, Turkey, Burma and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.). Representatives of the latter have been "in conversation" with APT6 lead curator Suhanya Raffel via an intermediary - the Beijing-based British filmmaker Nicholas Bonner. His connections with the Pyongyang-based Mansudae Art Studio helped secure 70 works: paintings, prints and mosaics influenced by the socialist-realist styles of Russia and China. Raffel says their inclusion recognizes "different, parallel art histories that have developed...
...massacre of students at Thammasat University by police and right-wing mobs, and in May 1992 he called democracy demonstrators who helped topple a military dictator "communists" and "rioters." Democracy activists branded him one of the country's political "devils." As Prime Minister he praised the military junta in Burma as "good Buddhists" and called Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi a "tool of the West...