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Monday, June 09, 2008

Burma Update: June 9, 2008

Highlight

Burma Partnership Weekly Briefer: Human Rights Disaster on Top of Humanitarian Crisis [2nd June – 8th June]

News from Burmese Media

The Irrawaddy: Foreign Media ‘More Destructive than Nargis’: Junta
The Irrawaddy: UN Helicopters Fan out Across the Irrawaddy Delta
The Irrawaddy: Police Bar Shops from Selling TV Satellite Dishes
The Irrawaddy: Thousands of Bodies Still Litter Irrawaddy Delta
The Irrawaddy: Delta Farmers Face Uncertain Future
The Irrawaddy: 1,000 Karen Villagers Flee Attacks
Kaowao News Group: Deep South Referendum Bombing Suspects Resurface
Kaowao News Group: More Nargis’ Survivors Flee to Southern Burma
Narinjara News: Five More People Arrested for Polling Station Fire
Mizzima News: UN Helicopters Begin Ferrying Aid to Cyclone-Ravaged Delta
Independent Mon News Agency: Soldiers Interrogate and Torture Village Headman and Group
Shan Herald Agency for News: Air Mandalay Stops Thailand Flights
Kachin News Group: Ethnic Kachin Students Discriminated against by Burman Teachers
Democratic Voice of Burma: Cyclone Refugees Flee to Thailand
Democratic Voice of Burma: Prisoners Suffer Illness after being Fed Rotten Rice
Democratic Voice of Burma: Bodies of Cyclone Victims Collect in Labutta


Opinion/Other

The Star: Hospital by the River - Loh Foon Fong
IPS: Burma: ASEAN Steps in Where Others May Not Tread - Marwaan Macan-Markar
The Star: Burma Crisis Wake-up Call for the UN - Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger
The Cutting Edge: Cyclonic Orwellian Drama Still Plays Out in Ravaged Burma - Benedict Rogers

Statement/Press Release

Thailand Burma Border Consortium: Donors Responding to Border Food Crisis


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