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A Dangerous Journey to get to School
By Saw Ehna and C. Guinard
In military ruled Burma, parents are struggling everyday to afford basic education for their children. As a consequence, many young ethnic people from southern and eastern Burma face the only option of leaving their homeland to seek education in refugee camps located on the Thai-Burma border. Many walked through war torn jungle and endured a dangerous journey to reach the Thai border. Now studying in a refugee camp, Naw Thelay and her friends told us why they decided to flee the Burmese Education system?
India and the Junta: Business above Democracy
By M. McAteer
On October 24, 2004, General Than Shwe undertook the first visit to India by a Burmese head of state for 25 years. The carefully choreographed photographs of Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the Junta's most senior officer smiling and shaking hands indicated further the realization of what an official from India's Ministry of External affairs called a mutual desire to establish a long term cooperative partnership.What are the reasons for the world's largest democracy to promote today the validity of SPDC dictatorship?
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