Month: November 2011

Why Dictators Dare by Junior Win

A dictatorship is a type of government in which a person or group of people rules a country with absolute power. Dictatorships can be established through violence and maintained through physical force and a limitation of people’s freedom of speech and behavior. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

Burmese Children on Freedom of Expression by Khet Mar

 

Ei Ei Aung: “I should have chance to say what I want.”

Today there are over 1,600 political prisoners in Burma. Because they said what they wanted to say, the government considers them enemies.

The Movement of buildOn by Pwintphyu Nandar

  It has been twenty years of building a movement for buildOn. Twenty years of weekends spent doing community service. Twenty years of summers spent in third-world countries helping build schools. That is what twenty years have been like for…

Are Burmese Censorship Chief’s Promises Beyond Belief by Olivia Stransky

 

Deputy Director-General Tint Swe Calls for Press Freedom in Burma

Tanhsungmone and the Medicine Night by Junior Win

Tanhsaungmone and The Medicine Night

Come Tanhsaungmone(Tahsaungtaing), the 8th month of the Burmese calendar, another lights festival even more elaborate with the usual trimming of music, dances, and shows. Tanhsaungmone festival is the lights festival in the month of tanhsaungmone(November). The month is the time for offering special robes and other gifts to the monks.