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Select ongoing coverage
The Economist's coverage was
excellent. So is the Guardian UK's,
and also the Independent's.
Buddhist Channel continues to do an amazing job, too. Visit them!
The World/Asia section of paper of record, the New York Times.
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How you can help
Sign the US Campaign for
Burma's petition
Stand with the Burmese protestors.
Click here to sign an easy, useful
online petition.
Write a letter to your Chinese
embassy to encourage China
to put conflict-resolving pressure
on the Myanmar junta. China and
Burma are tight, so China may be
one of our best hopes for some
kind of end -- and hopefully a
peaceful one.
Tricycle's Philip Ryan has been
doing an excellent job of helping
people to understand what else
they can do.
Are you an artist? Have a website or blog?
You may be interested in the
Horse's Burma is important
Project. It's an easy way
to spread the word.
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Capsule
SELECT2007 SAFFRON REVOLUTION
HEADLINES AND MEDIA CUTTINGS
12/07/07
(NYT) "Months After Protest,
Myanmar Junta is in Control."
10/30/07
(Guardian) "The human cost
of junta's repression"
10/25/07
(NYT) "Tell a joke and you disappear"
10/25/07
(CNN) Suu Kyi freed for possible talks
10/24/07
(NYT) Myanmar's Monks and Junta:
Fragile Coexistence is Shattered
10/24/07
(NYT) India Agrees to Help Sides
Reconcile in Myanmar
10/18/07
Burma's New Generation Political Activists
10/17/07
(NYT) In Myanmar, Fear is Ever-Present
10/08/07
(AP:) Myanmar junta renews
pressure on monks
10/06/07
(Reuters:) "Myanmar talks possible;
protesters March in London"
10/02/07 (UK)
Guardian: Monks vanish as Burmese
troops step up presence.
Daily Mail: Thousands dead
in monk massacre. But is this story untrue?
Since its original posting, it seems to
have been replaced.
10/01/07
UN envoy to meet Burmese leader
after delay .Gambari to tell top genera
that killings must stop. Exiles fear for
the fate of 1,400 protestorrs
(Guardian)
9/30/07
(AP:) "Government forces
seal off Buddhist monasteries,
locking monks inside, and shoot
tear gas to disperse demonstrators."
9/28/07
Monks report monastery invasion
by police; claim they were tied and
beaten. One monk tells ABC,
"They destroyed everything."
9/27/07
Laura Bush speaks up on Burma
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