Sunday, December 21, 2008

[KyiMayKaung] 5 New Entries: Rwandan official found guilty of 1994 genocide --

Rwandan official found guilty of 1994 genocide --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/world/africa/19rwanda.html?th&emc=th

What is Transitional Justice -- from International Center for Transitional Justice --

http://ictj.org/en/tj/

International Criminal Court and America -- something -President Elect Obama should do as soon as sworn in -

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/03/opinion/edcohen.php

Shoe-throwing Iraqui journalist was beaten -- from IHT

Junta backed USDA (Union Solidarity Development Association)

from Mizzima.

http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/1469-junta-backed-usda-unlikely-to-contest-2010-election.html

I am posting like others in case Mizzima can't be accessed directly from inside Burma due to government blocking.

Saki (H.H. Munro) was born today, Dec 18, in Akyab, Burma --

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/happy-birthday/2008/Dec/Saki.html

Very interesting. I did not know this, nor his "Burma connection" in colonial military police force in Burma, so like George Orwell's.

I also did not know he died of a sniper's bullet while an enlisted soldier.

I wish more native Burmese wrote/write in English then and now.

Kyi May Kaung

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