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BurmaNet News is an online newspaper that offers general coverage of news and opinion on Burma from around the world.

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Special Features

Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative Web features available online at different locations:

Burma: Country in Crisis

Voices of '88

Impressions from a Burma in Exile

Exposing Statelessness: Understanding the Plight of Burma's Rohingya
OSI-New York
May 27, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
Using Saiful Huq Omi’s photographs and a recent report from Physicians for Human Rights as a point of departure, this panel explores the impact of statelessness on the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority in western Burma.

About This Initiative
The Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative focuses on open society issues throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Burma but also in other countries where essential freedoms are threatened.

Call for Proposals: Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative
Deadline: July 15, 2010
The Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative welcomes proposals from organizations working to promote human rights, independent media, and civil society in the region.

Thai NGOs Call for Investigation into Violence
May 20, 2010
The Human Rights Lawyers Association and others call on the Thai government to protect the civil and political rights of those arrested during the March anti-government protests.

Undaunted: An Interview with Zoya Phan
Amy Weil
June 3, 2010
blog BLOG  
In Eastern Burma, more than 3,500 villages have been destroyed in the past 15 years and hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities continue to be used as slave labor. Author Zoya Phan aims to move others to take action for human rights in her homeland.

Than Shwe’s "Mercy" Is Meaningless
Kyaw Zwa Moe
August 11, 2009
This article from The Irrawaddy, an Open Society Institute grantee, looks at the Burmese junta’s disregard for the law and their claims that Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial was fair.

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