· October, 2007

Stories about Myanmar (Burma) from October, 2007

India: Government and Burma

  4 October 2007

Kafila on what the Indian Government should do about the protests in Burma, with particular focus on cutting military support to the Myanmar Junta.

Myanmar: More International Support

  1 October 2007

Yangon Thu links to sites that have pictures and news of international support for the protests in Myanmar. The blogger also requests readers to write to International Committee of the Red Cross to aid the monks who are on hunger strike in Yangon.

Myanmar: Soldiers Trying to Reduce Monk's Influence

  1 October 2007

The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a non-profit news organization and one of the few places where the news from Myanmar still trickling in has posted a report in Burmese on soldiers trying to get the monks to give up their religious life. Yangon Thu translates the report.

East Asia: China's Responsibility In Burma Repression

  1 October 2007

Franklen K S Choi from inmediahk.net quoted reports about China government's various military and economic investment in Burma for arguing that China has moral responsibility for the repression in Burma. He urged people from Hong Kong to give pressure to China government by demonstration and signature campaign (zh).

Myanmar: Yangon Before the Protests

  1 October 2007

Bangkok Dazed posts pictures of Yangon from two weeks ago. “I keep thinking about Yangon as if was just two weeks ago when I was there: so pleasant, so peaceful, so friendly … so normal. What the hell has happened?”