The indescribable horror of political violence in Burma reached its ugliest peak in 1988. Newspaper frontpage pictures of disgusting rows of decapitated heads being displayed on a crude table on the streets of one of Rangoon’s poorest townships shocked the world. But for an average Burmese the atrocities committed by all the parties involved weren’t [...]
The horror of political violence in Burma
August 4th, 2008 by Hla Oo, Guest Contributor · 8 Comments
A way forward for Thai politics?
August 4th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 22 Comments
About a month ago I light heartedly asked for suggestions on how governments in Thailand should be chosen. Given that some commentators are disillusioned with the electoral process, I thought it would be interesting to hear about some alternatives (such as the PAD’s 30% elected, 70% appointed proposal). We got a few suggestions, but no stand-outs.
In this [...]
Cells, seminars and political science on the inside
August 4th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
Now in their 40s, most of the group’s founders were first rounded up as hotheaded university students who helped steer a failed pro-democracy uprising in 1988. Bound for professions in medicine, engineering or law, many never graduated. The prisons became their university.
- Extracted from “Burma’s Prisons a Caldron of Protest Fury”, The Washington Post, 3 [...]
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