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PLAZA DE MAYO Since the '70s, these two groups--mothers and grandmothers--have marched regularly in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the return of loved ones taken during a military junta's 1976-83 "dirty...
...coordinated by the United States Campaign for Burma (UCSB), a group that also pushed for the Burma Freedom Act of 2003. In February, Bo Kyi testified before Congress for the renewal of the act, which bans imports from Burma in order to discourage forced labor under the military junta. “It’s an honor to have someone who’s shown such dedication to democracy and freedom,” said Amy K. Lehr, a student at the Law School who worked for an NGO in Burma. “I found it encouraging that...
Comparisons between India and Pakistan are out of line. Those who claim that U.S. treatment of India and its rival Pakistan must be equivalent forget the not so slight distinction between liberal democracy and military dictatorship. Only seven years ago the junta led by Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan in a coup d’état. Consider also that leading Pakistani engineer A.Q. Khan confessed to running a nuclear weapons racket with connections to potential “rogue states” Iran and North Korea. To top it all, Osama bin Laden and senior leaders...
With her own life in turmoil, Amy Tan was invited by friends in 2000 to accompany them to Burma. "Why not?" she thought. "It's a beautiful country. Great art, great culture. But then I started reading about the military junta, the human rights problems, Aung San Suu Kyi, the boycott. I could cancel the trip, but what good would that do? I could go, but would that do any good either? That led to the question of how any of us can make a difference. And how do we decide?" That led to Saving Fish from Drowning, the latest...
...presence still galls the junta in Yangon. In 1997 soldiers destroyed a handful of local facilities that Maung had set up in the hill country in Burma. To replace them, she and her staff have assembled teams of health-care workers who slip into Burma and deliver care, village by village. The volunteers, known as backpack medics, face arrest if caught, and Maung knows that if she steps back over the border, the junta will pounce. So for now, she stays at Mae Tao, providing medical care for a nation of the displaced and hoping to return to the land...