Burma’s Ethnic Insurgencies Erupt in a Chain Reaction
Fighting by Burma’s three largest ethnic minorities has flared up all at once.
Fighting by Burma’s three largest ethnic minorities has flared up all at once.
John Dale’s new book scrutinizes the battle between civil society activists, corporations, and states over U.S. foreign Policy toward Burma’s military junta.
Phyllis Bennis is available for interviews about President Obama’s speech at the White House this evening on withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
The ongoing plight of Burma’s ethnic minorities is crowded out of the news by more immediate crises elsewhere.
These excerpts from narratives of three survivors of Burma’s military regime are a powerful evocation of life during wartime.
Voice of Witness presents Maggie Lemere and Zoë West editors of, Nowhere to be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime and Peter Orner co-editor of, Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives.
Despite Burma’s ruling junta’s history of brutality, a dissident leader calls out his people.
Give the lady a chance to find her sea legs.
Once again Burma’s junta is thinking of releasing Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.
The Karen ethnic group’s revolt against the Burma junta is the longest-running independence movement on earth.
In the face of sanctions, defectors with nuclear secrets, and a liberalized officer corps, how long can Burma’s junta hold out?
Sanctions are undermining President Obama’s Burma policy.
Undaunted vividly brings to life Zoya’s full story, from her unusual childhood in a fascinating remote Burmese culture, to her harrowing 10 years on a Thai refugee camp, to her escape and emergence as an activist icon after her freedom-fighting father’s murder in 2008 by an agent of the Burmese regime.
Mac McClelland, author of the new book ‘For Us Surrender is Out of the Question,’ talks about why the media is missing a major story in Burma.
Cuban-American poet Virgil Suarez talks about the literal and literary bridges between Cuba and America.