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...Maung welcomed supporters in front of the John Harvard statue, which had been adorned with a Burmese flag and a picture of Buddha. Two Buddhist nuns began the rally with a prayer and then led students out into Harvard Square...
...stay in power. He could use his position to fill senior government posts in the civil service, law enforcement and the military with his followers. That is what I believe happened in Thailand before the coup; the hijacking of our government in a very slick and seemingly lawful way. Maung Maung Myint Pathomthani, Thailand...
...stay in power. He could use his position to fill senior government posts in the civil service, law enforcement and the military with his followers. That is what I believe happened in Thailand before the coup, the hijacking of our government in a very slick and seemingly lawful way. Maung Maung Myint Pathomthani, Thailand Bridget Welsh's viewpoint, "Damage assessment," was the best analysis I have read on this coup. But it did not allow for a scenario of the return of a working democracy by October 2007 if the military sticks to its promises. Maybe the latest military coup...
...them means that we will make the world a better place for all of us. Topics like these may not make for easy conversation, but it is the stories of people like Dr. Paul Farmer, whose goal is to provide first-class health care to the poor, and Cynthia Maung, who runs a medical clinic on the dangerous Thailand-Burma border, that give me hope for the future, not the big political visions of the White House. Thank you for giving a voice to those who are normally neglected by the media. That is what I call quality journalism. Morena...
...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...