The Burmese regime and the Karen National Union (KNU) have traded accusations of responsibility for three bomb attacks over the past three days.
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Myanmar’s ruling junta blamed a string of recent bombings on a foreign organization and called on the public to report any sightings of terrorists, a state-run newspaper said Monday.
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The recent bomb blasts in Burma including former capital Rangoon could be the junta’s plot in an effort to re-unite its military, which reportedly suffers a rift during the crackdown on protestors in September, analysts said.
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Burma’s chief Opposition party today said there was need for frequent meetings with detained pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, for discussions on the future course of political negotiations with the ruling junta.
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Cloaked in allegory and drawing on history, his lectures give Buddhists hope after a bloody crackdown by generals.
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Closed circuit television cameras installed at busy traffic junctions in Rangoon have now been removed by the city authorities due to high maintenance costs, said sources.
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Burmese authorities are in the process of offering 7,000 senior assistant teachers in state high schools in Rangoon Division a chance to buy GSM mobile phones at below market value, according to a teacher from No.1 Basic Education High School in Dagon Township.
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He lives his life surrounded by landmines, trapped on one side by Burmese soldiers who would kill him if they had the chance and on the other side, by Thai police who would arrest him as an illegal alien. His entire world is approximately two miles long and eighty feet wide, along a fortified ridge top, where the soldiers, orphans, widows, amputees, and refugees, men, women, and children wage a defensive war, praying for the day that the SPDC reign of terror will end. (more…)

Japan has pledged US $1.79 million to support a project for the improvement of maternal and child health care services in Burma.
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Northeastern Indiana charities bracing for another wave of refugees fleeing Myanmar’s repressive regime say $133,000 in grants from Catholic Charities will help provide health care to the often sickly new arrivals.
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Over 20 civil organizations today urge Indonesia to stop dealing with the Burmese military junta and exert pressure for political reforms starting with the release of detained pro-democracy leader Daw Sung San Suu Kyi.
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A popular South African women’s magazine has joined the global call for people to join the “panty protest” against Myanmar’s regime by sending women’s underwear to the junta’s embassy in Pretoria.
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The government of China has been striving to make certain that Aug. 8, 2008, the start of this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, will be an auspicious date. The Communist authorities have even set the start of their gala for 8 p.m. on 8/8/08.
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I read an article in 1999. It’s about an English girl, 27 years old Rachel Gowing went to Burma and staged a solo protest in Rangoon calling for a democratic change in Burma. She handcuffed herself to the lamppost and sang a pro-democracy song in Burmese. She was sentenced to seven years in prison for this crime by Burmese military junta. (She was later released after serving two months). In a leading newspaper, it wrote about her story, and in that article, I still remember the idea, not in exact word, “How can tourists visit to Burma today? The regime might arrest the person who may have just whistled ‘We shall overcome”, a widely popular song of world activists and NGOs”. After 9 years, this scenario became real. (more…)

A change of policy towards Burma’s military dictatorship is needed to put India on the right side of history, says Meenakshi Ganguly.
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