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Archive for September, 2007

Burma: Translations of interviews

View all Burma posts on this blog. Speaker: About one hundred monks and 3,000 people left from Katheh-zu [note: name not sure] monastery. When we got to [note: place name not sure], near the bridge- when we got to the bridge near the clock tower, there was a group with shields blocking us. They were [...]

Burma update: Interview from Rangoon

“The tall, fair youth who was in the teashop got beaten with the chair in the teashop. They said, “Are you a student? Are you the one?” Hit him with the butt of the rifle and took him outside, and four or five or six people kicked him with their boots outside. I feel as [...]

Burma: More soundbites

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heX0k8pnB0] “Today, the military government has used force. They have done inhumane acts against the monks and the people and have killed them again. Last night, they entered Ngwe Kya Yan monastery and detained the monks and beat them, and kicked them with their army boots. We saw pools of blood at the monastery.” — [...]

Burma: Continuing violence in Rangoon and Mandalay

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YjMj5Cq2c] The following are translated extracts from interviews done by RFA’s Burmese service: Eyewitness Account 09/27/07 Speaker: I saw it at Myintha Project area.  That was the Number 31 old bus terminal.   I went there because I heard people couldn’t stand it any more, so they had surrounded the security forces and attacked them with [...]

RFA interview with a Singaporean shot in Rangoon

RFA’s Mandarin service interviewed this man last night. You can read the interview in full below, and go to our English Web story for more background and context. [Photo via Ko Htike.]  “I’m a citizen of Singapore who lives in Rangoon. At around 4:00 in the afternoon today (Thursday), my wife and I were on [...]

Burma crackdown: police shoot into crowds

Ko Htike writes more news of the continuing crackdown, showing photos of troops firing on unarmed civilians, and the flip-flops left in pools of blood on the streets afterwards… To all folk, it is really bad in YGN, pLs can someone do something for our country, now inside YGN it has been look like War [...]

Burma: Gunshot wounds in the ER

News from the blogosphere on Burma: Ko Htike writes: Wednesday, 26 September 2007 today…. 26/9/07 my duty time part is working on Emergency YGH… at about 2:00 pm 5 patients was coming to our Emergency … for Gun Shot from Government militaries… 1 patients died on d spot on arriving Hospital… ( shot on Bladder [...]

Burma: Monks continue protest

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJyPnhV_g74] Some translated extracts from recent reporting by RFA’s Burmese service: 1) The following are quotations from interviews with two monks who were among 2000 monks chanting prayers in front of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s compound: “Today we gathered 2000 monks on the Shwedagon Pagoda, and then we came down from western entrance onto [...]

Tibetans protest alleged dam project in China's Gansu

[rockyou id=84807750&w=400&h=300] Tibetan nomads in China’s remote northwestern Gansu province have reportedly been protesting plans to dam a tributary of the Yellow River and force them to relocate away from their traditional lifestyle. “Last year in March 2006 a Chinese team came in the area and conducted a survey for the construction of a dam [...]

Some notable European women and their North Korean husbands

The following is a compilation of original reporting and background information from our Korea specialist on the English Web team, Grigore Scarlatoiu. You can read the RFA English Web feature here. The first section is an update interview Greg did with Georgeta Mircioiu last week, followed by a feature broadcast on RFA’s Korean service(KOR) in [...]