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21 August, 2008

Burma

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain - As China and India vie for power and influence, Burma has become a strategic battleground
by Robert D. Kaplan - The Atlantic

Drowning - Can the Burmese people rescue themselves? Letter from Rangoon
by George Packer - New Yorker

In Broken Economy, Burmese Improvise or Flee - WP



Burma: waiting for the dawn - The democratic ideals of the "8-8-88" uprising remain the foundation of Burma's future - Open Democracy

Burma's rage - On the twentieth anniversary of the pro-democracy uprising inBurma in 1988, the myth of control on which the Than Shwe regime relied on isgone. The mood is of rage. And hope. - Open Democracy

The Myanmar Dilemma: Aid or Democracy? , by Thant Myint-U - NPQ

Beijing holds key to change in Burma - FT

Burma's Prisons a Caldron of Protest Fury - WP

Exiles Try to Rekindle Hopes for Change in Myanmar - NYT

An auspicious, bloodstained day - IHT

Burma's cyclone survivors are left to struggle with their fate - Telegraph

Agony of Burma’s dumped children - Times

When a disastrous regime continues - Burma's junta adds to cyclone's toll - Asia Sentinel

Myanmar's monks regroup after killer storm - AP

A Call to Arms? - The Irrawaddy

Who Lost the Most in the 2007 Uprising? - The Irrawaddy

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