Towards an open society in Burma/Myanmar through interactions and integration
For FBC media comments and interviews, contact: Dr Zarni, Founder and Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, at +44 (0)79 63 66 84 61
Click here and see if you have been listed in the Book of "Enemies of the (Burmese) Revolution".
About the Free Burma Coalition
FBC Activists Launching Pepsi Boycott, Chapel Hills, NC, USA, October 1995No more "Free Burma" Boycotts
The FBC was founded at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1995 as a Burmese-led political initiative to support Burmese people's aspirations and struggle for democracy and human rights through boycotts, pro-sanctions advocacy and Burma awareness promotion. For nearly one decade, we organized and successfully spearheaded the anti-apartheid- style pro-sanctions campaigns. But after having reviewed the effectiveness of our pro-sanctions campaigns against the objective of building an open society back home, we have categorically reversed our pro-isolation advocacy.
We now support efforts to interact and engage with the country - that is, the 'evil' junta, business sector and the society at large. We encourage travel and tourism, educational and cultural exchange, development activities aimed to support people's livelihoods, institutional and capacity building, and humanitarian assistance.Visit FBC Blog: Sample New IdeasDifferent Approaches Toward ChangeSampling "Democratic Intolerance" Savvy Salt of the Earth, not Cowed Burma as S. Africa: A Wrong Comparison Lessons from Our Own Past The Closing of "the Burmese Mind" Want to change Burma? Milk Powder RevolutionariesYour Homework?:Background Readings on Burma/MyanmarThe Burmese Conflict in a Nutshell: Burma/Myanmar 101 Click here to read the backgrounder.
A Short Guide to Myanmar and the International Community: Derek Tonkin, Former British Ambassador, 4 January 2006An EU Strategy for Burma/Myanmar- Harn Y.An Integrated Approach to National and Human Security in Burma/MyanmarZarni, Institute of Education, London, '05Leaving Home: Amnesty International Report7 September 2005"Common Problems,Shared Responsibilities": FBC Report14 September 2004FBC Report (Executive Summary)Essays on Social Change: Learning from Others
Development and DemocracyForeign Affairs, Sept/Oct '05ChinaUnrest in China's Countryside, Jan 2006Social Movements in Urban China, '06The Dynamics of China's Social Crisis, '06Georgia President Mikheil SaakashviliIndia Sonya GandhiIndonesiaScott AllenIraqHaifa Zangana, The Guardian, UKSingapore George Yeo TibetRoger Beaumont, The Nation, ThailandUkraineAndrew Osborn, The IndependentVietnamAdam Fforde, Australia Venezuela (and the United Nations)President Hugo Chavez
Think Global : Further Readings
Robert Fisk on End of the Year Review, Dec 2005Richard Falk on Human Rights, Foreign Policy, '05Richard N. Haass on Regime Change, Foreign Affairs, '05Adrian Hamilton on American Discovery of Democracy, The Independent, UK, '05 Base PoliticsForeign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2005How Washington has consistently undermined its ostensible propagation of 'democracy' by cutting deals with some of the world's most heinous regimes Read more. The Demons of an Open SocietyLSE Public Lecture, October 2005Professor Zygmunt BaumanRead the transcript.
An old Karen Lady in traditional attire:Fetching water in bamboo "buckets"Armed Conflict Zone of Kawthoolei
A young Karen guerrilla fighter cleaning his AK-47 during an upstream journey on River Salween, April 2003
The First Checkpoint on the Road Map – National ConventionTwo Karen guerrilas on patrol April 2003
Dr. Alice Khin Saw Win, Saw Kapi and Dr. Zarni (The Burma Strategy Group) December 15, 2003The international delegates from about 10 countries along with UN Special Envoy Ismail Razali are gathering at the Thai-sponsored international forum on Burma in Bangkok on December 15, 2003 to hear representatives of the State Peace..
Talking with the SPDC The Politics of Negotiation and KNU's Cautious Efforts for National ReconciliationKaren National UnionJoint SecretaryMajor Htoo Htoo Leiexplains his viewson KNU-Rangoon ceasefireas P'do Khwe looks onSummer 2004 Saw Kapi and Naw May Oo
Deliberately led by its Vice Chairman, Gen. Saw Bo Mya, the Karen National Union (KNU) recently made a series of efforts in pursuit of peace that caught many in the Burma's opposition movement by surprise. A five-member KNU delegation,
Confronting the Realities: KNU Weighs Strategic Options for Burma's Political DeadlockSaw Kapi
Speculation abounds within Burma's democratic forces and the international community, as the State Peace and development Council, one of the longest running military regimes in the world, makes a fresh move. The SPDC has offered its seven-step road map that calls for
Contact us at info@freeburmacoalition.org
Who amongst the Burmese pays the price of Western boycott and international isolation?Evil Generals? Noble Dissidents? Or ordinary people and their children??!!Reflect before You Act!
Updates: Burma/Myanmar and Relevant Items25 September 2007
"Free Burma Coalition supports fully tourism and travel to Myanmar (Burma) as part of its support for the emergence of an open society."Read more.
Want to visit Myanmar (Burma)? Consult with the Voices for Burma, ethical tourism promotion group.
http://www.voicesforburma.org/
Useful Links About Burma
mizzima.com
irrawaddy.org
photos
Revolution for Reconciliation?
"This is the time for reconciliation, cooler heads, dialogue and working together amongst all Burmese, soldiers and civilians."
Zarni
If you have missed or were unable to watch or listen live today's one-hour-long programme on Burma (9 September Sunday, 1406 hr GMT).
Mission of Burma: Laura Bush Edition
Kerry Howley, 6 September 2007, Reason
UN envoy urges Burma constitution talks
Mark Turner at the United Nations and Amy Kazmin in Bangkok, 6 September 2007, Finicial Time
UN Special Envoy Ibraham Gambari's Press Conference on Myanma/Burma
5 September 2007, www.ung.org
Laura Bush's Burmese Crusade
HANNAH BEECH, 5 September 2007, Time
Burma Goes from Bad to Worse
Thant Myint-U, 30 August 2007, Time
Where Protests Can Prolong Army Rule
J. Sri Raman29 August 2007, www.truthour.org
Miles Kington: Repressive regimes thrive on international outcry
23 August 2007, The Independent
Jared Genser: Gordon Brown's strange silence on Burma
21 August 2007, The Independent
"Understanding Burma I: A Burmese Historian's View", 4 August 2007
The river of lost footstepsFROM A DISTANCEBy CARMEN N. PEDROSA, ABS-CBN Interactive
"A Typically Flawed View from the West", 2 August 2007
ASEAN toughens up
From the Economist Intelligence UnitAugust 2nd 2007
Exploring the roots of conflict
29 July 2009, The Star, Malaysia
US sanctions policy on Myanmar has failed
P. Parameswaran, 25 July 2007
INDIA: Under fire for planned helicopter sale to Burma
July 17 2007, ABC Radio Australia
EU-Burma Arms Embargo
Click the above link to listen
Click here to read the transcript.
July 16 2007, BBC World Service Interview
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASE
July 16 2007
Rangoon-Oxford-Bangkok link up
June 19 2007, BBC Burmese
Myanmar's political prisoner
May 29th 2007
Myanmar, unusual threat to US?
Maung Zarni, 26 May 2007, The Brunie Times
Myanmar: An "Unusual and Extraordinary Threat" to the US
Maung Zarni, 24 May 2007
For Amnesty International's Press Release launching its 2007 Report click here:
23 May 2007
Does Burma need you?If you want to help the people of Burma, then go, says Thant Myint-U.
19 May 2007, The Times
SANCTIONS REVISITED: Burmese Opposition Radio in OsloClive Parker, 9 May 2007, DVB
Buddha's lost world
Wendy Gomersall, 6 May 2007, The Scotsman
The biggest travel taboo: a holiday in Burma
Fiona Dunlop, 29 April 2007, The Observer
Books :A Burmese pilgrim's progress
29 April 2007, The Nation
Burma and the Competence of the UN Security Council
Derek Tonkin, 8 March 2007, Asian Tribune
Worldstage: Freezing out the generals does not help the Burmese
Nick Wood, 7 March 2007, Telegraph
Myanmar's neighbors hold the key
Stanley A. Weiss, 7 March 2007, International Herald Tribune
Reframing the ‘Burma question’
Thant Myint-U, February 2007, HIMĀL SOUTHASIAN
Challenges and Prospects for the Future of ASEAN - EU RelationsTrack II Workshop in Yangon, 19-20 September 2006
What to do about Burma
Thant Myint-U, London Review of Books
Vol. 29 No. 3 dated 8 February 2007
Historian Thant Myint-U is a former U.N. official and a native of Burma. His new book, The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma - part memoir, part history - explores the problems plaguing the country.
Myanmar 'falls outside council's mandate' Xolisa Mabhongo: Right to reply
04 February 2007 11:59
BBC Burmese Debate on the predictable failure US-UK campaign at the UN Security Council
Click the above link to listen.
U Kyaw Zan Tha, U Win Naing, Dr Than Naing & Dr Zarni, 24 January 2007, BBC Burmese Evening Programme
UN Vetoes Prolong Burma Agony
Simon Tisdall, 17 January 2007, The Guardian
Lessons from Myanmar's Failed Revolution
Zarni, 16 January 2007, OpinionAsia
World: Histories of Burma, US National Public Radio
Fresh Air from WHYY, 16 January 2007
Finally, Rambo Boy Does Burma
Zarni, 2 December 2006, Mizzima News Group
About 3 weeks ago, Deputy Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari, A Nigerian, came to Myanmar for the second time and went back to UN Headquarters, well, empty-handed. He didn't get anything from his meetings with not only Senior General Than Shwe but also Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Time for Rethinking Social Change in Myanmar/Burma
By Dr. Zarni, 19 September 2006
It's time for a new way of thinking about social change in Myanmar/Burma and for a review of the current punishment-based international policies directed towards our country.
Burma Special: Why we must talk to the generals
Maung Zarni, 14 August 2006, New Statesman
Focusing on Aung San Suu Kyi may not be the best way to bring democracy to Burma, argues Maung Zarni. Real change, he says, will require the co-operation of those now in power.
Boycott Rooted in McCarthy's Unhappy Legacy23 June 2006, Financial Times
Should Tourists go to Burma?British Broadcasting Corporation, 19 June 2006
To Go or Not To Go: Reflections by Former Boycott OrganizerZarni, 23 June 2006A Crack in the Burmese Door21 June 2006, Ibrahim A. GambariInternational Herlad TribuneThe Futility of threatening Burma16 June 2006, ZarniThe IndependentRemember Asia's Nelson Mandela: a political act of the first importance15 June 2006, Timothy Garton AshThe GuardianThe Burma Debate: The Natives' Views
NLD Statement on the Call for UNSC Action21 September 2005CRPP and 1988 Student Leaders on the Call for UNSC Action2 October 2005
Impoverishment as 'Freedom': A View from a Frontline TrenchDr. Khin Zaw Win, former Prisoner of Conscience (jail time 1994-2005)
Western sanctions and isolation only stymie the emergence of a vibrant civil society, 4 Jan '06Isolating Burma will not help the people of Burma: Comment, The Independent, June '05 Will UN Act on Burma/Myanmar - Harn Yawngwe, Dec 2005 KNU Statement on the Call for UNSC Action25 September 2005Two Ceasefire Groups on the Call for UNSC Action1 October 2005 Student Generation since 1988 speaks out on humanitaran asistance6 September 2005Response by the State Peace and Development Council or Myanmar Government28 September 2005 A young Karen boy on his boat journey homeon River Salween, dividing Eastern Burma and Northern Thailand, April 2003Myanmar (Burma) defers its turn to chair ASEANOfficial Statement by ASEAN26 July 2005 Select Burmese Media Interviews
Your views on Dr. Zarni's trip to Burma
BBC Program on the Trip
VOA Interview I/ Dr.Zarni
VOA Interview II/ Dr. Zarni
VOA Interview/ Salai Hremang
VOA Interview/ Naw May Oo
More Interviews (In Burmese)Conversation with Dr. Zarni (Burma Today)
Conversation with Moe Thee Zun (Burma Today's Interview)
Burma Development React (VOA)
A FBC Organizer teaching at a refugee school on Burmese-Thai BordersJune 2004
A FBC talkKalamazoo College, Michigan, USAFebruary 2004
Voices of Reason.
"A flyer distributed in the crowds dealt with ahimsa (non-violence) and how all Burmese are suffering at the hands of one another andasked all to come together to end the suffering."
September 23, 2007, Mizzima News (ww.mizzima.com)
"Isolation is the regime's default condition. It is what fuels the present system. Burma might not become a democracy overnight, but itwill certainly improve with more outside interaction. Would Indonesia be better off if no one had visited during its 30 years of military rule?"
Thant Myint-U, author of "River of Lost Foot Steps", on the boycott of Burma/Myanmar
"(Aung San) Suu Kyi had come a long way to realize that democracy can only be done through the generals, with the latter still in the driving seat. This realization of hers is in stark contrast to the imperious, principled and unbending Suu Kyi I had met over twenty meetings ago."
Former UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail, April 2007
Read more."For 26 years Myanmar experienced impoverishment in the name of socialism; it now appears there is to be impoverishment in the name of democracy, (thanks in part to the misguided Western sanctions against our country)."Dr. Khin Zaw Win, former Prisoner of Conscience (jail time 1994-2005)in 'Impoverishment as Freedom' "Nothing (sanctions by the West or 'Constructive Engagement" by theEast) works, yet something needs to be done." - George Soros, 11 Jan 2006. Read more."If you go to Rangoon, you'll see sanctions hurt the wrong people."Razali Ismail, Former UN Special Envoy to Burma, BBC World Service, 9 Jan 2006.Read the transcript."...the UN Security Council briefing on Burma ... will not solve Burma's problems unless and until there is a viable alternative to the current dictatorship."Harn Yawngwe, A Shan Exile, Dec. '05.
Read more."In retrospect, I feel like the effort we put into getting ordinances and sanctions passed became a goal in and of itself, and we forgot about its true purpose: to help the underprivileged of Burma."A Burmese "Free Burma" campaign veteran, 28 Sept. '05Read more.
SELECT MEDIA INTERVIEWSBBC World ServiceInterview with Dr Zarni June 18, 2005GMT 2200 Click here to listen.In Search of a Model for Myanmarby Rob Gifford (Comments by David Steinberg, Zarni, etc.)
Click here to listen.
Weekend Edition - Sunday, June 19, 2005
What effect are international sanctions having on Myanmar? In an effort to push the military regime in the former Burma toward democracy, many countries have restricted trade. But Amnesty International says the regime is tightening its crackdown on dissent.Email your comments to info@freeburmacoalition.orgif you wish to share them with FBC members and others.
ShweDagon Pagoda, the landmark of Rangoon, seen from Royal Lake, October 2005 Burmese Buddhist Devotees inside the Gold-covered Mahamuni Temple:MandalayA Deceptively Heavenly View:The cloud-soaked mountainsKaren State, April 2003Conflict in the Rainforest: Karen guerrillas taking a breakfrom Fifty Years' War (1948-)April 2003 Surviving Tsunami:Southern Coastal Linenear KawthaungJune 2003
Praying for a better next life?:A Buddhist monk at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon Terror in Rangoon:The City of "the End of Strife"Rocked by 3 Bomb BlastsMay 2005Young novices during study break:A Buddhist Monastery, Pagan Terrace Cultivation:Kawthoolei or Karen StateMay 2003**********************FBC Organizers ata negotiation exercise/workshopThe US Institute of PeaceArlie House, VirginiaJuly 2004 FBC-ers trekking through the armed conflict zone, Kawthoolei, Burma, May 2003
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For FBC media comments and interviews, contact: Dr Zarni, Founder and Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, at +44 (0)79 63 66 84 61
Click here and see if you have been listed in the Book of "Enemies of the (Burmese) Revolution".
About the Free Burma Coalition
FBC Activists Launching Pepsi Boycott, Chapel Hills, NC, USA, October 1995No more "Free Burma" Boycotts
The FBC was founded at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1995 as a Burmese-led political initiative to support Burmese people's aspirations and struggle for democracy and human rights through boycotts, pro-sanctions advocacy and Burma awareness promotion. For nearly one decade, we organized and successfully spearheaded the anti-apartheid- style pro-sanctions campaigns. But after having reviewed the effectiveness of our pro-sanctions campaigns against the objective of building an open society back home, we have categorically reversed our pro-isolation advocacy.
We now support efforts to interact and engage with the country - that is, the 'evil' junta, business sector and the society at large. We encourage travel and tourism, educational and cultural exchange, development activities aimed to support people's livelihoods, institutional and capacity building, and humanitarian assistance.Visit FBC Blog: Sample New IdeasDifferent Approaches Toward ChangeSampling "Democratic Intolerance" Savvy Salt of the Earth, not Cowed Burma as S. Africa: A Wrong Comparison Lessons from Our Own Past The Closing of "the Burmese Mind" Want to change Burma? Milk Powder RevolutionariesYour Homework?:Background Readings on Burma/MyanmarThe Burmese Conflict in a Nutshell: Burma/Myanmar 101 Click here to read the backgrounder.
A Short Guide to Myanmar and the International Community: Derek Tonkin, Former British Ambassador, 4 January 2006An EU Strategy for Burma/Myanmar- Harn Y.An Integrated Approach to National and Human Security in Burma/MyanmarZarni, Institute of Education, London, '05Leaving Home: Amnesty International Report7 September 2005"Common Problems,Shared Responsibilities": FBC Report14 September 2004FBC Report (Executive Summary)Essays on Social Change: Learning from Others
Development and DemocracyForeign Affairs, Sept/Oct '05ChinaUnrest in China's Countryside, Jan 2006Social Movements in Urban China, '06The Dynamics of China's Social Crisis, '06Georgia President Mikheil SaakashviliIndia Sonya GandhiIndonesiaScott AllenIraqHaifa Zangana, The Guardian, UKSingapore George Yeo TibetRoger Beaumont, The Nation, ThailandUkraineAndrew Osborn, The IndependentVietnamAdam Fforde, Australia Venezuela (and the United Nations)President Hugo Chavez
Think Global : Further Readings
Robert Fisk on End of the Year Review, Dec 2005Richard Falk on Human Rights, Foreign Policy, '05Richard N. Haass on Regime Change, Foreign Affairs, '05Adrian Hamilton on American Discovery of Democracy, The Independent, UK, '05 Base PoliticsForeign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2005How Washington has consistently undermined its ostensible propagation of 'democracy' by cutting deals with some of the world's most heinous regimes Read more. The Demons of an Open SocietyLSE Public Lecture, October 2005Professor Zygmunt BaumanRead the transcript.
An old Karen Lady in traditional attire:Fetching water in bamboo "buckets"Armed Conflict Zone of Kawthoolei
A young Karen guerrilla fighter cleaning his AK-47 during an upstream journey on River Salween, April 2003
The First Checkpoint on the Road Map – National ConventionTwo Karen guerrilas on patrol April 2003
Dr. Alice Khin Saw Win, Saw Kapi and Dr. Zarni (The Burma Strategy Group) December 15, 2003The international delegates from about 10 countries along with UN Special Envoy Ismail Razali are gathering at the Thai-sponsored international forum on Burma in Bangkok on December 15, 2003 to hear representatives of the State Peace..
Talking with the SPDC The Politics of Negotiation and KNU's Cautious Efforts for National ReconciliationKaren National UnionJoint SecretaryMajor Htoo Htoo Leiexplains his viewson KNU-Rangoon ceasefireas P'do Khwe looks onSummer 2004 Saw Kapi and Naw May Oo
Deliberately led by its Vice Chairman, Gen. Saw Bo Mya, the Karen National Union (KNU) recently made a series of efforts in pursuit of peace that caught many in the Burma's opposition movement by surprise. A five-member KNU delegation,
Confronting the Realities: KNU Weighs Strategic Options for Burma's Political DeadlockSaw Kapi
Speculation abounds within Burma's democratic forces and the international community, as the State Peace and development Council, one of the longest running military regimes in the world, makes a fresh move. The SPDC has offered its seven-step road map that calls for
Contact us at info@freeburmacoalition.org
Who amongst the Burmese pays the price of Western boycott and international isolation?Evil Generals? Noble Dissidents? Or ordinary people and their children??!!Reflect before You Act!
Updates: Burma/Myanmar and Relevant Items25 September 2007
"Free Burma Coalition supports fully tourism and travel to Myanmar (Burma) as part of its support for the emergence of an open society."Read more.
Want to visit Myanmar (Burma)? Consult with the Voices for Burma, ethical tourism promotion group.
http://www.voicesforburma.org/
Useful Links About Burma
mizzima.com
irrawaddy.org
photos
Revolution for Reconciliation?
"This is the time for reconciliation, cooler heads, dialogue and working together amongst all Burmese, soldiers and civilians."
Zarni
If you have missed or were unable to watch or listen live today's one-hour-long programme on Burma (9 September Sunday, 1406 hr GMT).
Mission of Burma: Laura Bush Edition
Kerry Howley, 6 September 2007, Reason
UN envoy urges Burma constitution talks
Mark Turner at the United Nations and Amy Kazmin in Bangkok, 6 September 2007, Finicial Time
UN Special Envoy Ibraham Gambari's Press Conference on Myanma/Burma
5 September 2007, www.ung.org
Laura Bush's Burmese Crusade
HANNAH BEECH, 5 September 2007, Time
Burma Goes from Bad to Worse
Thant Myint-U, 30 August 2007, Time
Where Protests Can Prolong Army Rule
J. Sri Raman29 August 2007, www.truthour.org
Miles Kington: Repressive regimes thrive on international outcry
23 August 2007, The Independent
Jared Genser: Gordon Brown's strange silence on Burma
21 August 2007, The Independent
"Understanding Burma I: A Burmese Historian's View", 4 August 2007
The river of lost footstepsFROM A DISTANCEBy CARMEN N. PEDROSA, ABS-CBN Interactive
"A Typically Flawed View from the West", 2 August 2007
ASEAN toughens up
From the Economist Intelligence UnitAugust 2nd 2007
Exploring the roots of conflict
29 July 2009, The Star, Malaysia
US sanctions policy on Myanmar has failed
P. Parameswaran, 25 July 2007
INDIA: Under fire for planned helicopter sale to Burma
July 17 2007, ABC Radio Australia
EU-Burma Arms Embargo
Click the above link to listen
Click here to read the transcript.
July 16 2007, BBC World Service Interview
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASE
July 16 2007
Rangoon-Oxford-Bangkok link up
June 19 2007, BBC Burmese
Myanmar's political prisoner
May 29th 2007
Myanmar, unusual threat to US?
Maung Zarni, 26 May 2007, The Brunie Times
Myanmar: An "Unusual and Extraordinary Threat" to the US
Maung Zarni, 24 May 2007
For Amnesty International's Press Release launching its 2007 Report click here:
23 May 2007
Does Burma need you?If you want to help the people of Burma, then go, says Thant Myint-U.
19 May 2007, The Times
SANCTIONS REVISITED: Burmese Opposition Radio in OsloClive Parker, 9 May 2007, DVB
Buddha's lost world
Wendy Gomersall, 6 May 2007, The Scotsman
The biggest travel taboo: a holiday in Burma
Fiona Dunlop, 29 April 2007, The Observer
Books :A Burmese pilgrim's progress
29 April 2007, The Nation
Burma and the Competence of the UN Security Council
Derek Tonkin, 8 March 2007, Asian Tribune
Worldstage: Freezing out the generals does not help the Burmese
Nick Wood, 7 March 2007, Telegraph
Myanmar's neighbors hold the key
Stanley A. Weiss, 7 March 2007, International Herald Tribune
Reframing the ‘Burma question’
Thant Myint-U, February 2007, HIMĀL SOUTHASIAN
Challenges and Prospects for the Future of ASEAN - EU RelationsTrack II Workshop in Yangon, 19-20 September 2006
What to do about Burma
Thant Myint-U, London Review of Books
Vol. 29 No. 3 dated 8 February 2007
Historian Thant Myint-U is a former U.N. official and a native of Burma. His new book, The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma - part memoir, part history - explores the problems plaguing the country.
Myanmar 'falls outside council's mandate' Xolisa Mabhongo: Right to reply
04 February 2007 11:59
BBC Burmese Debate on the predictable failure US-UK campaign at the UN Security Council
Click the above link to listen.
U Kyaw Zan Tha, U Win Naing, Dr Than Naing & Dr Zarni, 24 January 2007, BBC Burmese Evening Programme
UN Vetoes Prolong Burma Agony
Simon Tisdall, 17 January 2007, The Guardian
Lessons from Myanmar's Failed Revolution
Zarni, 16 January 2007, OpinionAsia
World: Histories of Burma, US National Public Radio
Fresh Air from WHYY, 16 January 2007
Finally, Rambo Boy Does Burma
Zarni, 2 December 2006, Mizzima News Group
About 3 weeks ago, Deputy Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari, A Nigerian, came to Myanmar for the second time and went back to UN Headquarters, well, empty-handed. He didn't get anything from his meetings with not only Senior General Than Shwe but also Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Time for Rethinking Social Change in Myanmar/Burma
By Dr. Zarni, 19 September 2006
It's time for a new way of thinking about social change in Myanmar/Burma and for a review of the current punishment-based international policies directed towards our country.
Burma Special: Why we must talk to the generals
Maung Zarni, 14 August 2006, New Statesman
Focusing on Aung San Suu Kyi may not be the best way to bring democracy to Burma, argues Maung Zarni. Real change, he says, will require the co-operation of those now in power.
Boycott Rooted in McCarthy's Unhappy Legacy23 June 2006, Financial Times
Should Tourists go to Burma?British Broadcasting Corporation, 19 June 2006
To Go or Not To Go: Reflections by Former Boycott OrganizerZarni, 23 June 2006A Crack in the Burmese Door21 June 2006, Ibrahim A. GambariInternational Herlad TribuneThe Futility of threatening Burma16 June 2006, ZarniThe IndependentRemember Asia's Nelson Mandela: a political act of the first importance15 June 2006, Timothy Garton AshThe GuardianThe Burma Debate: The Natives' Views
NLD Statement on the Call for UNSC Action21 September 2005CRPP and 1988 Student Leaders on the Call for UNSC Action2 October 2005
Impoverishment as 'Freedom': A View from a Frontline TrenchDr. Khin Zaw Win, former Prisoner of Conscience (jail time 1994-2005)
Western sanctions and isolation only stymie the emergence of a vibrant civil society, 4 Jan '06Isolating Burma will not help the people of Burma: Comment, The Independent, June '05 Will UN Act on Burma/Myanmar - Harn Yawngwe, Dec 2005 KNU Statement on the Call for UNSC Action25 September 2005Two Ceasefire Groups on the Call for UNSC Action1 October 2005 Student Generation since 1988 speaks out on humanitaran asistance6 September 2005Response by the State Peace and Development Council or Myanmar Government28 September 2005 A young Karen boy on his boat journey homeon River Salween, dividing Eastern Burma and Northern Thailand, April 2003Myanmar (Burma) defers its turn to chair ASEANOfficial Statement by ASEAN26 July 2005 Select Burmese Media Interviews
Your views on Dr. Zarni's trip to Burma
BBC Program on the Trip
VOA Interview I/ Dr.Zarni
VOA Interview II/ Dr. Zarni
VOA Interview/ Salai Hremang
VOA Interview/ Naw May Oo
More Interviews (In Burmese)Conversation with Dr. Zarni (Burma Today)
Conversation with Moe Thee Zun (Burma Today's Interview)
Burma Development React (VOA)
A FBC Organizer teaching at a refugee school on Burmese-Thai BordersJune 2004
A FBC talkKalamazoo College, Michigan, USAFebruary 2004
Voices of Reason.
"A flyer distributed in the crowds dealt with ahimsa (non-violence) and how all Burmese are suffering at the hands of one another andasked all to come together to end the suffering."
September 23, 2007, Mizzima News (ww.mizzima.com)
"Isolation is the regime's default condition. It is what fuels the present system. Burma might not become a democracy overnight, but itwill certainly improve with more outside interaction. Would Indonesia be better off if no one had visited during its 30 years of military rule?"
Thant Myint-U, author of "River of Lost Foot Steps", on the boycott of Burma/Myanmar
"(Aung San) Suu Kyi had come a long way to realize that democracy can only be done through the generals, with the latter still in the driving seat. This realization of hers is in stark contrast to the imperious, principled and unbending Suu Kyi I had met over twenty meetings ago."
Former UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail, April 2007
Read more."For 26 years Myanmar experienced impoverishment in the name of socialism; it now appears there is to be impoverishment in the name of democracy, (thanks in part to the misguided Western sanctions against our country)."Dr. Khin Zaw Win, former Prisoner of Conscience (jail time 1994-2005)in 'Impoverishment as Freedom' "Nothing (sanctions by the West or 'Constructive Engagement" by theEast) works, yet something needs to be done." - George Soros, 11 Jan 2006. Read more."If you go to Rangoon, you'll see sanctions hurt the wrong people."Razali Ismail, Former UN Special Envoy to Burma, BBC World Service, 9 Jan 2006.Read the transcript."...the UN Security Council briefing on Burma ... will not solve Burma's problems unless and until there is a viable alternative to the current dictatorship."Harn Yawngwe, A Shan Exile, Dec. '05.
Read more."In retrospect, I feel like the effort we put into getting ordinances and sanctions passed became a goal in and of itself, and we forgot about its true purpose: to help the underprivileged of Burma."A Burmese "Free Burma" campaign veteran, 28 Sept. '05Read more.
SELECT MEDIA INTERVIEWSBBC World ServiceInterview with Dr Zarni June 18, 2005GMT 2200 Click here to listen.In Search of a Model for Myanmarby Rob Gifford (Comments by David Steinberg, Zarni, etc.)
Click here to listen.
Weekend Edition - Sunday, June 19, 2005
What effect are international sanctions having on Myanmar? In an effort to push the military regime in the former Burma toward democracy, many countries have restricted trade. But Amnesty International says the regime is tightening its crackdown on dissent.Email your comments to info@freeburmacoalition.orgif you wish to share them with FBC members and others.
ShweDagon Pagoda, the landmark of Rangoon, seen from Royal Lake, October 2005 Burmese Buddhist Devotees inside the Gold-covered Mahamuni Temple:MandalayA Deceptively Heavenly View:The cloud-soaked mountainsKaren State, April 2003Conflict in the Rainforest: Karen guerrillas taking a breakfrom Fifty Years' War (1948-)April 2003 Surviving Tsunami:Southern Coastal Linenear KawthaungJune 2003
Praying for a better next life?:A Buddhist monk at the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon Terror in Rangoon:The City of "the End of Strife"Rocked by 3 Bomb BlastsMay 2005Young novices during study break:A Buddhist Monastery, Pagan Terrace Cultivation:Kawthoolei or Karen StateMay 2003**********************FBC Organizers ata negotiation exercise/workshopThe US Institute of PeaceArlie House, VirginiaJuly 2004 FBC-ers trekking through the armed conflict zone, Kawthoolei, Burma, May 2003
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1 comments:
Thanks for helping! FREE Burma!!!
Bush slammed the UN and the rulers of Myanmar in his UN speech last week. The only country that has any influence over Myanmar is China, and they can't and won't push too hard. There is too much Oil & Gas there that they need.
The UN must do something, but they never use military force to fight.
That is a huge problem.
Illegal drug and ruby fortunes are a BIG part of this too.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe wants
complete narco states
criminals in power
loving the corrupt drug war
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
shoot peaceful protesters
calling for democracy
which you must never allow
absurd thought -
God of the Universe thinks
keep trying communism
you can never KILL too much
pursuing Utopia...
http://free-burma.org/
http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/
:)
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