47 Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), ‘Chronology of Political Prisoners in Burma’, February 2009
48 ALTSEAN, ‘New US Policy: An Alibi for Regional Complacency’, 5 November 2009
49 ALTSEAN, ‘Burma Bulletin’, Issue 33, September 2009
50 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thai-Burmese Border’, November 2006
51 James Mawdsley, The Heart Must Break: The Fight for Democracy and Truth in Burma, 147
52 Ibid., 159
53 Ibid., 308
54 Ibid., 369
55 Ibid., 372–3
56 Wa Wa Kyaw, ‘Junta Exacts Revenge on American Citizen’, Nation, 10 December 2009
57 Ibid.
58 Glenn Kessler, ‘Little focus put on U.S. man jailed in Myanmar’, Washington Post, 24 December 2009
59 Ko Bo Kyi, ‘Lifting Burma sanctions will not silence the screams’, Nation, 31 October 2009
60 Tom Parry, ‘Suu Kyi’s Right Hand Man’, Irrawaddy, 19 September 2009
Chapter 9: Bloody Spots and Discarded Flip-Flops: The Saffron Revolution
1 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
2 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
3 Human Rights Watch, ‘Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma’, 34
4 National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Human Rights Documentation Unit, ‘Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution’, 27
5 Human Rights Watch, ‘Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma’, 35
6 Ibid., 37
7 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
8 Human Rights Watch, ‘Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma’, 38
9 Ibid., 40
10 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
11 Human Rights Watch, ‘Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma’, 40
12 Ibid., 41
13 Ibid., 42–3
14 Ibid., 44
15 All Burma Monks Alliance, ‘Statement of People’s Alliance Formation Committee to the Entire Clergy and the People of the Whole Country’, 21 September 2007
16 Human Rights Watch, ‘Crackdown: Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma’, 53
17 National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Human Rights Documentation Unit, ‘Bullets in the Alms Bowl: An Analysis of the Brutal SPDC Suppression of the September 2007 Saffron Revolution’, 47
18 Ibid., 48
19 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
23 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 16–28 November 2007
24 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
25 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
26 Ibid.
27 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 16–28 November 2007
31 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
32 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 16–28 November 2007
33 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
34 Ibid.
35 Ibid.
36 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
37 Ibid.
38 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 16–28 November 2007
39 Ibid.
40 BBC, ‘Burma censor chief calls for more media freedom’, 8 October 2011 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15227175
41 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border and Malaysia’, February 2008
Chapter 10: Cyclone Nargis
1 Steve Jackson, ‘Was Burma’s cyclone predicted?’, BBC News, 6 May 2008 – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7386695.stm
2 Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Report on Pastoral Visit to Myanmar/Burma, 19–31 January 2009
3 Ibid.
4 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 20 January–10 February 2009
5 Emergency Assistance Team (EAT) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ‘After the Storm: Voices from the Delta’, March 2009, 8
6 Ibid., 33
7 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 20 January–10 February 2009
8 Free Burma Rangers, ‘As thousands suffer the effects of Cyclone Nargis, villagers suffer continued brutality by the Burma Army in Karen State’, 9 May 2009 – http://www.freeburmarangers.org/Reports/2008/20080509b.html
9 ABC News, ‘Burma aid curbs driving up death toll: Opposition’, 10 May 2008 – http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/10/2241057.htm
10 Benedict Rogers, ‘Ignore the junta’, Guardian, 13 May 2008 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/13/ignorethejunta
11 Benedict Rogers, ‘Tea with a dictator’, Guardian, 31 May 2008 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/31/teawithadictator
12 Matthew Weaver, ‘Cyclone Nargis: one month on, US accuses Burma of criminal neglect’, Guardian, 2 June 2008 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/burma.cyclonenargis
13 Alan Brown, ‘Myanmar cyclone: Burma junta is killing its own people, says West’, Daily Telegraph, 17 May 2008 – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/1976611/Myanmar-cyclone-Burma-junta-is-killing-its-own-people-says-West.html
14 David Cameron, ‘If the generals will not let in the aid, they must face trial’, Independent, 1 June 2008 – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-cameron-if-the-generals-will-not-let-in-the-aid-they-must-face-trial-837683.html
15 Elana Schor, ‘Laura Bush urges Burma to accept US aid’, Guardian, 5 May 2008 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/05/burma.usa
16 UN News Center, ‘Myanmar’s leader agrees to open access to foreign aid workers – Ban Ki-moon’, 23 May 2008 – http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=26773&Cr=Myanmar&Cr1
17 The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, ‘Listening to Voices from Inside: Myanmar Civil Society’s Response to Cyclone Nargis’, 152
18 Ibid., 175
19 Al-Jazeera, ‘Myanmar hosts cyclone aid meeting’, 25 May 2008 – http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/05/200861503218669523.html
20 ‘Co-operation with United Nations Cornerstone of Myanmar’s Foreign Policy’, New Light of Myanmar, 24 October 2008
21 ‘The enemy who is more destructive than Nargis’, New Light of Myanmar, 8 June 2008
22 The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, ‘Listening to Voices from Inside: Myanmar Civil Society’s Response to Cyclone Nargis’, 150
23 Emergency Assistance Team (EAT) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ‘After the Storm: Voices from the Delta’, March 2009, 9
24 Ajesh Patalay, ‘Children of the Cyclone’, Telegraph Magazine, 21 May 2009
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p; 25 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Thailand-Burma Border’, 20 January–10 February 2009
26 Myanmar/Burma Emergency Aid Network, ‘Cyclone Nargis relief and early recovery work – report from the field’, 10 May–31 July 2008 – www.BurmaRelief.org
27 The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, ‘Listening to Voices from Inside: Myanmar Civil Society’s Response to Cyclone Nargis’, 188
28 Human Rights Watch, ‘Burma’s Forgotten Prisoners’, September 2009, 19
29 Ibid., 21
30 Matt Prodger, ‘Storm victims’ misery turns to fury’, BBC, 2 June 2008 –http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7430867.stm
31 Human Rights Watch, ‘Burma’s Forgotten Prisoners’, September 2009, 10
32 Human Rights Watch, ‘“I Want To Help My Own People”: State Control and Civil Society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis’, April 2010, 30
33 Andrew Marshall, ‘Burma’s Woes: A Threat to the Junta’, Time, 20 May 2008
34 The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, ‘Listening to Voices from Inside: Myanmar Civil Society’s Response to Cyclone Nargis’, viii
35 Ibid., 188
36 The famous story of a man who is on a beach covered with hundreds of stranded starfish. He starts picking up starfish and throwing them back into the sea, and someone asks him how he can possibly expect to make a difference when there are so many starfish on the beach. He picks up another starfish and as he does so he replies: ‘It makes a difference to this one.’
Chapter 11: Out of Uniform but Still in Power
1 VOA News, ‘Thailand Suggests Road Map for Burma’, by Ron Corben, 20 July 2003
2 Asiaweek, ‘Myanmar: No Talking Here’, 8 December 1995
3 Fink, 74
4 Ibid., 75
5 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to Kachin State’, May 2009
6 Human Rights Watch, ‘Vote to Nowhere: The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma’, 21
7 Institute for Political Analysis and Documentation (IPAD), ‘No Real Choice: An Assessment of Burma’s 2008 Referendum’, 26
8 Human Rights Watch, ‘Vote to Nowhere: The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma’, 23–4
9 The Public International Law & Policy Group, ‘Burmese Constitutional Referendum: Neither Free Nor Fair’, May 2008, 10–11
10 Ibid., 35
11 Ibid., 37
12 Irrawaddy, ‘Massive cheating reported from referendum polling stations’, 10 May 2008 – http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=11923
13 Institute for Political Analysis and Documentation (IPAD), ‘No Real Choice: An Assessment of Burma’s 2008 Referendum’, 34
14 Ibid., 23
15 Ibid., 36
16 Ibid., 37
17 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the Bangladesh-Burma Border’, 26–31 August 2008
18 Zipporah Sein, ‘Burma’s New Constitution: A Death Sentence for Ethnic Diversity’, Irrawaddy, 13 October 2009
19 Human Rights Watch, ‘Vote to Nowhere: The May 2008 Constitutional Referendum in Burma’, 44–5
20 Ibid., 46
21 International Center for Transitional Justice, ‘Impunity Prolonged: Burma and its 2008 Constitution’, 3
22 Ibid., 4
23 Saw Yan Naing, ‘Constitutional crisis over the Border Guard Force?’, Irrawaddy, 16 July 2009
24 U Win Tin, ‘An “Election” Burma’s People Don’t Need’, Washington Post, 9 September 2009
25 National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), ‘Proposal for National Reconciliation: Towards Democracy and Development’, 2009, 1 - http://www.ncgub.net/NCGUB/mediagallery/download85d1.pdf?mid=20091023154306771
26 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Burma: ‘Visit to Kachin State’, May 2009
27 Richard Lloyd Parry, ‘Spy novels, an out-of-tune piano and meditation: Suu Kyi faces another 18 months of solitude’, The Times, 12 August 2009
28 Andrew Heyn, ‘Burma’s USDP is heading for election victory, by hook or by crook’, Guardian, 3 November 2010 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/nov/03/burma-usdp-election
29 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ‘Burma: Visit to the India-Burma Border’, 15–30 November 2010
30 ALTSEAN-Burma, Election Watch 2010 – Political Parties Statements – http://www.altsean.org/Research/2010/Resources/Statements/Parties.php?pageNum_rs_statements=5
31 U Win Tin, ‘An “Election” Burma’s People Don’t Need’, Washington Post, 9 September 2009
32 ‘Myanmar’s First Budget in Decades’, AFP, 12 February 2012
33 Phoebe Kennedy, ‘Supporters receive a message of hope from their heroine’, Independent, 15 November 2010
34 Kenneth Denby, ‘Suu Kyi challenges generals: politics belongs to everyone’, The Times, 15 November 2010
35 BBC, ‘Suu Kyi: Burma democracy in my lifetime’, 5 January 2012
36 AFP, ‘Myanmar’s Suu Kyi “could get government role”’, 8 January 2012
37 BBC, ‘Suu Kyi: Burma democracy in my lifetime’, 5 January 2012
38 Quoted in Irrawaddy, ‘Is Than Shwe Still Pulling the Strings?’, 9 December 2011 – http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22629
39 As quoted in Shway Yoe, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Macmillan, 1910, 383
Chapter 12: The Future?
1 Associated Press, ‘Suu Kyi says Myanmar’s powerful military could still halt progress to democracy’, 5 January 2012
2 Kenneth Denby, ‘Democracy reforms are a ploy by generals to scupper Suu Kyi’s power, activist warns’, The Times, 5 January 2012
3 Andrew Drummond, ‘Glenys Kinnock smuggles Suu Kyi video from Burma’, The Times, 11 November 1996
4 ‘The Protest Network: social networking is an awesome tool for democracy. In their support for Egyptian protestors, Google and Twitter have emerged as powerful political actors’, The Times, 2 February 2011
5 Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear, 212
6 Quoted in Malavika Karlekar, ‘Imagining the Lady: the media have made Suu Kyi’s struggle visible’, Telegraph, 8 January 2012
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