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    My support to Myanmar.
  2. Any news about the situation in Myanmar (Burma)? Here we've been more than a week without any miserable piece of news. Anyonw knows something?
  3. Originally posted by LikeASongAny news about the situation in Myanmar (Burma)? Here we've been more than a week without any miserable piece of news. Anyonw knows something?


    Yes,
    according to EFE,
    The Militry government of Burma, ordered the detention of around 400 soldiers and 5 generals for refusing to fire and use violent forces against protesting moks and activists in the past weeks, the source seems to be a functionary who asked to remain in annonimacy. He also refused to give the names of the Generals arrested.

    The detained 400 soldiers, apparently in SAKAI near the city of MANDALAY, were detained becouse when confronted by the monks they lowered their weapons and asked for the monks forgiveness when realizing that they had committed "the worst of the sins", regarding the repression...

    The source also talks that there are functionaries of the Government who very quietly and slowly are starting to show their discomfort with what has happened with the repression of the monk's pacfic protests....

    this is a brief translation of the complete news article... I couldn't find it in english and don't have enough time to translate it all... sorry for that, if anyone finds a complete version in english please post it.

  4. Originally posted by JohnnyVOXXYes,
    according to EFE,
    The Militry government of Burma, ordered the detention of around 400 soldiers and 5 generals for refusing to fire and use violent forces against protesting moks and activists in the past weeks, the source seems to be a functionary who asked to remain in annonimacy. He also refused to give the names of the Generals arrested.

    The detained 400 soldiers, apparently in SAKAI near the city of MANDALAY, were detained becouse when confronted by the monks they lowered their weapons and asked for the monks forgiveness when realizing that they had committed "the worst of the sins", regarding the repression...
    Wow. Although I don't like weapons nor soldiers, I haave to admit this are NICE soldiers. .
  5. Originally posted by LikeASong[..]Wow. Although I don't like weapons nor soldiers, I haave to admit this are NICE soldiers. .


    Reminds me of our own revolution here, in the last days the soldiers joined the people and they shared their weapons with them and used it all against the government.
    Hope their revolution turns out better, if they make it happen!
  6. Originally posted by Ali709Reminds me of our own revolution here, in the last days the soldiers joined the people and they shared their weapons with them and used it all against the government.
    Hope their revolution turns out better, if they make it happen!
    Amazing. Power To The People!
  7. November 9th, 2007.

    Opposition leader to cooperate with Myanmar government

    (CNN) -- Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "ready to cooperate" with the government and is committed to pursuing a dialogue with the ruling junta, according to a statement the United Nations' special envoy to Myanmar read Thursday on her behalf.
    "It is my duty to give constant and serious considerations to the interests and opinions of as broad a range of political organizations and forces as possible," Ibrahim Gambari said, reading the statement from Suu Kyi.
    On Friday Suu Kyi was able to meet with three executive members of her National League for Democracy and a party spokesman -- the first time they have met in more than three years.
    Members of her party said Suu Kyi was "very optimistic" about prospects of the process for reconciliation, the Associated Press reported.
    The Nobel Peace Prize winner has said she will continue to be "guided by the policies and wishes" of the opposition political party she heads -- the National League for Democracy.
    In the statement, Suu Kyi also welcomed the appointment of Aung Kyi as the minister of relations, a position the junta created last month to be a liaison between government and Suu Kyi, whom the junta has under house arrest in Yangon.
    She has been confined to her home for the better part of almost two decades.
    Aung Kyi -- viewed as a moderate -- was appointed as the liaison officer amid international pressure following September's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations.
    As many as 110 people are believed to have been killed in the violence, including 40 Buddhist monks.
    Video smuggled out of the country showed unarmed protesters being beaten by the military regime's security forces, and one man -- believed to be a Japanese journalist -- was shot and killed at close range.
    The protests were sparked by a huge fuel price increase imposed by the military government, and quickly escalated.
    Myanmar's military junta said in mid-October that it had detained more than 2,900 people during the crackdown. Many of them are still believed to be in custody.
    Suu Kyi described her October 25 meeting with the liaison officer as "constructive," said the statement read by Gambari. "I look forward to further regular discussions."
    Gambari said he will return this week to New York to brief U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the five-day trip to Myanmar, also called Burma.
    The situation in the secretive Asian nation is not what it was "a few weeks ago," said a U.N. statement released in conjunction with the end of Gambari's trip.
    "We now have a process going which would lead to substantive dialogue between the government and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi," the statement said.
    "The sooner such a dialogue can start, the better for Myanmar."
    During his trip, Gambari met with Myanmar's prime minister, Gen. Thein Sein, and other government officials, as well as Suu Kyi, the United Nations reported
  8. Good to hear, I hope it gets somewhere...sometimes it just remains at "talk" level and nothing happens, hope this doesn't turn to that!
  9. Originally posted by Ali709Good to hear, I hope it gets somewhere...sometimes it just remains at "talk" level and nothing happens, hope this doesn't turn to that!


    you're right!! I really hope it gets somewhere!!!
    let's not loose the faith yet!!
  10. nice data jhonny , great work !!
  11. CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march Wednesday in which 80,000 people denounced President Hugo Chavez's attempts to expand his power. At least eight people were injured, including one by gunfire, officials said.

    Photographers for The Associated Press saw at least four gunmen -- their faces covered by ski masks or T-shirts -- firing handguns at the anti-Chavez crowd. Terrified students ran through the campus as ambulances arrived.

    National Guard troops gathered outside the Central University of Venezuela, the nation's largest and a center for opposition to Chavez's government. Venezuelan law bars state security forces from entering the campus, but Luis Acuna, the minister of higher education, said they could be called in if the university requests them.

    Antonio Rivero, director of Venezuela's Civil Defense agency, told local Union Radio that at least eight people were injured, including one by gunfire, and that no one had been killed. Earlier, Rivero said he had been informed that one person had died in the violence.

    The violence broke out after anti-Chavez demonstrators -- led by university students -- marched peacefully to the Supreme Court to protest constitutional changes that Venezuelans will consider in a December referendum.

    The amendments would abolish presidential term limits, give the president control over the Central Bank and let him create new provinces governed by handpicked officials.

    The protesters demand the referendum be suspended, saying the amendments would weaken civil liberties in one of South America's oldest democracies and give Chavez unprecedented power to declare states of emergency.

    "Don't allow Venezuela to go down a path that nobody wants to cross," student leader Freddy Guevara told Globovision.

    Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, denies the reforms threaten freedom. He says they would instead move Venezuela toward what he calls "21st century socialism."


    The Supreme Court is unlikely to act on the students' demands, given that pro-Chavez lawmakers appointed all 32 of its justices.

    Hundreds of National Guardsmen and police in riot gear were posted along the march route to prevent clashes between protesters and Chavez sympathizers, but they were restricted from entering the campus.
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    I must add, that high rank authorities of the UCV (Universidad Central de Venezuela) have pointed out, that gunmen were on motorbikes of the police, wich is controlled directly by people who is loyal to Chavez's government... they have also pointed out, that what happened the other day, might indeed be the government's strategy to take control of public and private Universities, by ordering the militry, gendarmerie and police to take over the situation.
    I'll post some pics below!! this are not students!! they are milicias paid by the government:









  12. so,

    my dear Friend Vladimir Poutine has been reelected as president of the Republic of Russia, a very contreversial man. Even with all the horrors he has commited he stays a political genious, for the best and for the worst.

    And Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has lost his reforme...

    Big weekend for these leaders !

    Well I have a exam tomorrow and the habs has just lost 4-1 to Detroit (no comments).

    So I say good night to you
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