Showing posts with label Myanmar military junta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar military junta. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Bomb blast in Myanmar, guerrilla outfit active

The repressive Myanmar military junta needs to worry some with the re-emergence of an underground organisation the Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors. The group triggered an explosion in an office of junta sponsored outfit the USDA early this month..

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Choppers allowed into cyclone devastated Myanmar

The junta's reluctance in allowing helicopters to airlift relief supplies to the cyclone devastated areas in Irrawaddy Delta seems to have been overcome in hiccups. First one was allowed, then five and finally the last four today, while people died..

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Myanmar junta withholds permission to choppers

Farce and the Myanmar military junta have become synonymous. A month after over a million people perished and 2.5 million were rendered homeless, the heartless regime withholds permission to airlift relief supplies by choppers to devastated areas..

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Myanmar: Opposition youth members hounded by junta

The Myanmar military junta, which has little time and less inclination in reaching out to millions of cyclone affected people, has time and energy to hound the Opposition. It has begun rounding up activists and dissidents on a regular basis..

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Myanmar: Elaborate rigging and wooing on cards

Even as the killer cyclone lashed Myanmar claiming several thousand lives, there was no let up in the military junta's desperate attempts to have its draft constitution approved by a recalcitrant populace. Plans for rigging and wooing continued.

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