More on Burma
Fallenmonk is watching events in Burma and offers other reports on the crack down.
David Axe writing in the World Politics Review reports that Satellites Help Spot Human Rights Abuses in Burma:
In the past week, up to 200 of people have died in Burma in the government’s violent suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations, according to various reports. But thousands more in Burma are routinely forcibly relocated and their villages burned by the army in an ongoing campaign against the country’s ethnic minorities. Now the Washington, D.C.-based American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is using commercially provided satellite imagery to catalogue the abuses.
This is something that needs to brought home to the junta – they can’t escape their responsibility. The case is already being built for their trial before the International Criminal Court. There are too many sources of evidence that they can’t control or hide from. They have gone too far and their crimes will not be forgotten.
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Free Burma!
International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October
International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words „Free Burma!“.
http://www.free-burma.org