The leader of the Burmese junta, Than Shwe, personally ordered the murder of scores of unarmed villagers and Thai fishermen, according to a senior diplomat and military intelligence officer who defected to America.
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Daily Archive
VOA News: Burma: Than Shwe ‘ordered troops to execute villagers’ – Richard Lloyd Parry
Sun 8 Jun 2008
Filed under: Inside Burma,News
Sun 8 Jun 2008
Filed under: Inside Burma,News
Associated Press: Tens of Thousands of Dead From Cyclone Nargis May Never Be Identified
Sun 8 Jun 2008
Filed under: Inside Burma,News
Sun 8 Jun 2008
Filed under: Inside Burma,News
The bodies of tens of thousands of people killed in Burma’s cyclone will probably never be identified because they were washed far from their homes and have decomposed so badly, an aid agency said Sunday. (more…)