http://www.metafilter.com/tags/democracy+myanmar Posts tagged with 'democracy' and 'myanmar' at MetaFilter. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:24:13 -0800 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:24:13 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74274/Drowning <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/25/080825fa_fact_packer">Can the Burmese people rescue themselves?</a> A powerful <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/08/getting-the-sto.html">piece</a> by George Packer in the <i>New Yorker</i> on the recent history and current conditions in <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/08/snapshots-burma.html">Burma</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74274 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:24:13 -0800 AungSanSuuKyi Burma Cyclone Democracy Dictatorship Dissent Freedom HumanRights Junta Monks Myanmar Oppression SaffronRevolution homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/67306/Repression%2Din%2DBurma <a href="http://hrw.org/reports/2007/burma1207/">Crackdown:</a> <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/12/07/burma17494.htm">Repression</a> of the <a href="http://hrw.org/campaigns/burma/crackdown/">2007 Popular Protests</a> in <a href="http://hrw.org/audio/2007/english/burma12/burma17494.htm">Burma</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67306 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:21:40 -0800 Activism Buddhism Burma Democracy Dictatorship HumanRights Junta Military Myanmar Politics Repression homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/65649/Burma <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2617637.ece">Risking all: the Burmese jokers who laugh in the face of danger.</a> In <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7047504.stm">Burma</a> (Myanmar), <a href="http://web.amnesty.org/pages/mmr-051007-feature-eng">comedians</a> are <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7048230.stm">targets</a> in the junta's <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/voicesofprotest/story/0,,2190065,00.html">war on words</a>. <small>[Via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/16/writers-in-burma.html">BB</a>.]</small> The Moustache Brothers have a <a href="http://www.moustachebrothers.com/">website</a>, but it doesn't look like it's been updated for some time. <a href="http://www.hteinlin.com/">Htein Lin</a>, the artist mentioned in the fifth link, was the subject of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/63280/Htein-Lin-Burma-Inside-Out">this post</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65649 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:05:35 -0800 Buddhism Burma Chevron China Comedy Courage Democracy Dictatorship Dissent Fear Freedom HumanRights Humor Junta Monks MoustacheBrothers Myanmar Pagodas Poetry Politics Prison Repression Sangha Satire Subversion Torture homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/60627/Date%2Dwith%2Da%2DTransvestite%2DSpirit%2DMedium <a href="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&amp;cat=the+gods&amp;file=chunkfrom-2007-04-01-1746-0.txt">Burmese Daze:</a> In which the author submits to the pleasures of a transgender spirit possession festival in <a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikdavis/sets/911664/>Burma</a>. <small>[Via <a href=http://www.disinfo.com/site/>Disinformation</a>.]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60627 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:49:08 -0800 Buddhism Burma Democracy ForcedLabour Junta Myanmar SpiritMediums Tourism Transvestites Travel homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/26292/Crackdown%2Din%2DBurma <a href="http://www.dassk.com/">Aung San Suu Kyi,</a> the democratically elected and rightful leader of <a href=http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/frames/home.htm>Burma</a> (Myanmar,) and the <a href=http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1991/index.html>1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate</a>, was <a href=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/780avqjt.asp>arrested by Burma's military government</a> 9 days ago after a <a href=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32279-2003Jun8.html?nav=hptop_tb>premeditated attack on her motorcade</a>. The U.N. representative visiting Burma <a href=http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/06/08/myanmar.suukyi.reut/index.html>has not been allowed to see her</a>. There has been a <a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/international/asia/01CND-BURMA.html>crackdown on the democracy movement</a>, and Suu Kyi's arrest may signal a <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2956002.stm>split within the military government</a>. [More inside.] tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26292 Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:47:12 -0800 arrest aungsansuukyi burma democracy dictatorship housearrest junta kyi laureates myanmar nobel nobelists peace prize homunculus