Burmese Crackdown Continues
Asia, Human Rights, Video, Women
Despite the military government’s promise to hold multi-party elections in 2010, Burmese refugees, monks and resistance fighters say the crackdown on dissent in far from over. Jonathan Jones and Anna Sussman report for Current TV.
An unknown future for the monks at the forefront of the Saffron Uprising. The San Francisco Chronicle. Jones and Sussman.
Burmese Monks in Thailand Pace, Pray and Wait
The story of an American Karen man who left his home in Washington to join the Karen ethnic resistance movement. Seattle Times. Jones and Sussman.
Bellingham Retireee Embraces Myanmar Rebels’ Cause
And Anna Sussman reports on the efforts of one local journalist for the Women’s E News journalist of the month series.
anna @ March 5, 2008