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Myanmar Struck by Earthquake; 5 Facts About the Former Burma
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe impoverished Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, known as Burma under British rule, is somewhat off the beaten path in terms of American news consumption and rarely makes headlines. So when it was struck by a powerful earthquake today, AOL News thought it would take a moment to offer up a quick list of key facts about the resource-rich but harshly ruled nation. It was struck by a 6.8-magnitude earthquake today. There were no reports of deaths or major destruction in the country, but in Myanmar, where a repressive government restricts virtually every source of news, accurate information ...
Myanmar's Strongman Appears on TV in Women's Clothing
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsSo you think Libya leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi is nuts? You might also want to try Myanmar's repressive head of state, Senior Gen. Than Shwe. For a recent televised ceremony, the 78-year-old boss of Asia's most authoritarian regime ditched his army dress uniform in favor of, more simply, a woman's skirt. Than Shwe appeared at a national holiday event last month wearing a woman's sarong -- or acheik -- and got the country talking. That is, as much as people can talk in an oppressed society. Khin Maung Win, AP Myanmar's top leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, right, greets guests ...
Myanmar Opens First Parliament in Two Decades
By not in system - AOL NewsNAYPYITAW, Myanmar -- Myanmar opened its first parliament in more than two decades Monday, an event greeted with cautious optimism by opposition lawmakers despite the military's tight management of the event. The military and its allies hold more than 80 percent of the seats in both houses of parliament, ensuring that the army exercises control over the wheels of power, as it has since a 1962 coup deposed the last legitimately elected legislature. A single-party parliament under the late dictator Gen. Ne Win was abolished in 1988 after the army crushed a pro-democracy uprising. The 440-seat ...
The Thanksgiving of Our Dreams: Open Your Eyes, It's Right Here
By James Grady - Politics DailyHey, 2010: We've made it this far, and that deserves a lot of thanksgiving. Politics is part of how we got here. Part of the good. Part of the bad. Part of our American dream. Part of politics we can be thankful for now is the SHUT UP factor. Listen to your lives. Do you hear it? Maybe not the sounds of silence, because the shouting never stops in modern America. But now the volume of political shouting is dialed-down because our latest electoral brawl is over -- except for random re-counts, court challenges, simple twists of fate and Congress's "lame duck" soup. Now, driving home ...
China Takes Steps to Derail Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Nov. 19) -- China was enraged when the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected jailed pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo as this year's Peace Prize winner. Now the People's Republic has taken its revenge by effectively blocking the committee from handing out the prestigious award for the first time in 109 years. According to Nobel rules, the $1.4 million prize can only be handed to the laureate or a close family member. Liu won't be able to make next month's ceremony in Oslo, Norway, as his calls for China to reform the one-party system earned him an 11-year prison sentence in December. His wife, ...
Liu Xiaobo Isn't the First Nobel Laureate Barred From Accepting His Prize
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- The Nobel Peace Prize committee announced today that it would likely not be able to present its award to Liu Xiaobo at next month's ceremony, because neither the Chinese dissident nor any of his family members will likely be able to attend. Liu, a dissident writer and activist, is in jail in China and his wife, Liu Xia, is under house arrest. Liu "is one of three people to have received the prize while incarcerated by their own governments. The others are the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, and the German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky in 1935," The New York ...
Aung San Suu Kyi, Finally Free -- but What of Democracy for Burma?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFor those of us who've managed to get to Rangoon, Burma, and make the pilgrimage to the house on University Avenue where the freedom fighter Aung San Suu Kyi has been held under house arrest for the past seven years, Saturday was a big day. The house, shrouded by overgrown foliage, possessed of little besides the legendary Nobel Peace Prize laureate, her broken piano and a collection of books, was never easy to see from the street: Armed guards were stationed outside the tall iron gates that kept passers-by from entering the premises (at least from the front). During times of political or ...
Newly Free Myanmar Activist Urges Talks
By not in system - AOL News
YANGON, Myanmar (Nov. 14) -- Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, freed from seven years of house arrest, told thousands of wildly cheering supporters Sunday that she would continue to fight for human rights and the rule of law in the military-controlled nation. She called for face-to-face talks with the junta's leader. She spoke to about 5,000 people who crowded around the dilapidated headquarters of her political party, the first stop for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate after leaving the lakeside residence that had been her prison. "I believe in human rights and I believe in the rule ...
Reports: Myanmar to Release Nobel Laureate
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 12) -- Reports are coming out of Myanmar that the country's military rulers have signed an order to allow Aung San Suu Kyi to go free. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been under house arrest in her home country for 15 out of the past 21 years. The daughter of modern Burma's founder, Suu Kyi, 65, has become a symbol of the country's struggle against military dictatorship. In 1990 elections, her National League for Democracy party won a majority in both the parliament and in the popular vote, but Suu Kyi was already behind bars and remained there, unable to take up the post of prime ...
Nobel Laureate Urges Political Sanctions Against Iran
By Betwa Sharma - AOL News
UNITED NATIONS (Nov. 9) -- Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi today urged the international community to impose "political sanctions" on Iran, where she said human rights for women and political prisoners are rapidly deteriorating. Ebadi, who is Iranian herself, called for steps such as travel bans and freezing assets of those leaders and officials who were involved in human rights abuses. She noted that eight Iranian officials had recently been barred from entering the United States. Eckehard Schulz, DAPD / AP Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wants the international community to impose travel ...
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