10 May 2008

Stories from 10 May 2008

Lebanon: Government Decrees Repealed

“The army command has just announced it is reinstating Wafiq Shuqair as the head of airport security and will investigate Hizbullah’s communications network ‘without harming the resistance’, asking for the...

10 May 2008

Lebanon: “Hot Summer”

“It's a pretty hot summer indeed in Lebanon… A strike that turned into a civil war… I'm scared..Yesterday when I heard the gunshots getting closer to my house I couldn't...

10 May 2008

Lebanon: Like being under siege

“I live in Ras El-Nabeh, where clashes have been raging for the last 2 days, and thanks god today is relatively calm and under the Lebanese army control. But still,...

10 May 2008

Lebanon: Future TV Vandalized

“During the war last summer, i cried the most when i heard that the Baalbek ruins are being threatened. Not equally dramatic but equally tragic, it seems that all the...

10 May 2008

Armenia: Surveillance of Gays & Swingers

Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the English translation of an article written by a fugitive opposition newspaper editor and activist on surveillance of prominent gays and swingers by the successor...

10 May 2008

Myanmar: Unrealisting Expectations

Andrew Selth at The Interpreter says “governments and international agencies calling for immediate action in Burma seem to be over-estimating the regime’s capacity to respond”

10 May 2008