Word: myanmar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easy to recite a litany of locales (to begin: Rwanda, Chechnya, Kampuchea, Myanmar, Burundi, Uganda) where the U.N. has done nothing in the face of evil. To be fair, part of this blame falls on the individual members of the Security Council for lacking the will and resolve to commit themselves to action. In some horrific cases—notably Kampuchea of the 1970s and Chechnya today—veto-bearing Security Council members were directly complicit in massive human rights violations...
...government of Burma—which arbitrarily renamed the country Myanmar in 1989—has long been considered a human rights pariah within the international community. Burma seized the world’s attention in 1988 when the dictatorship massacred thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrating for democracy. In a further display of contempt for democratic ideals, the SPDC held free elections in 1990, naively believing that it would win. When the opposition won all but 10 out of 485 seats in the People’s Assembly, however, the SPDC imprisoned or killed members and supporters of the democratically...
...previous support for democracy and human rights in Burma, it is astounding that HMNH—which has not responded to repeated e-mail requests on behalf of the Harvard Burma Action Movement to discuss this issue in person—is continuing to support the oppressive Myanmar regime...
...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...
DIED. U NE WIN, 91, reclusive former dictator of Burma, now Myanmar; in Yangon, Myanmar. A leader in Burma's fight for independence, he took power in 1962. His repressive rule helped lead the country into poverty and the status of least-developed nation by 1987. When he died, Ne Win, who once demanded that Burmese currency be issued in notes divisible by his lucky number, 9, was under house arrest for allegedly plotting to overthrow the current regime...