Submission + - Bloggers who risked all to reveal Junta in Burma 2
An anonymous reader writes: Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafés across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they have in the past few weeks, or achieved so much in a noble and dangerous cause.
Since last month Ko Latt, 28, his friends Arca, Eye, Sun and Superman, and scores of others like them have been the third pillar of Burma's Saffron Revolution.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2563937.ece
Time to rethink NON-INTERVENTION? (Score:2)
Although family affairs have been considered private for ages, many of today's societies will intervene forcibly to protect an abused spouse or child(ren). In fact, the societies, which would not, are perceived as backwards and/or oppressive by most readers of this posting.
Should we not be thinking in a similar fashion about abusive governments?.. The Burmese last rebelled in 1988, I believe, and the world had nothing but hollow words to support them. The same, sadly, is happening today [go.com].
UN charter is qu
Ko-Htike's UK Blog Posts Burma Updates (Score:1)
The Times article mentioned Ko-Htike's blog in the UK, which is still reachable and has some news from Burma. There is an account from yesterday of the slaughter in a monastery of 190 monks by the junta's police, which updates an earlier and less detailed report by the BBC. Today a poster says there are two groups of protesters marching in Yangon, one of about 2,000 people and the other of about 1,500 people.
http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]