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Burma Articles by John Pilger
Burma, victim of the 'War on Terror'
31 May 2008
Writing for the Guardian, John Pilger marks the Burmese junta's renewal of the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi with an examination of the intimidations of the 'war on terror' on those who help to free her and her people.

The hypocrites who say they back democracy in Burma
26 Oct 2007
Addressing a London meeting, 'Freedom Writ Large', organised by PEN and the Writers Network of Burma, John Pilger pays tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and the writers of Burma, 'the bravest of the brave', and describes the hypocrisy of Western leaders who claim to back their struggle for freedom.

My last conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi
3 Oct 2007
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger recalls his last conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi, under premanent house arrest in Rangoon. Filmed secretly by Pilger and David Munro, the legitimate leader of the Burmese people provides a glimpse of her aloneness and courage.

John Pilger denounces EU appeasement of Burma
24 Jan 2005
With an eye to its vast Asian market, Europe promotes human rights when the price is right. In Burma, crimes against humanity are allowed to continue without challenge.

Burma in the balance
21 Jul 2000 
A military junta and multinational corporations on one side, and Buddhist democratic forces led by Aung San Suu Kyi on the other, are engaged in battle for Burma.
 
A cry for freedom
1 Jun 1996
Arriving in Burma, the facades are almost normal: traffic in the streets of Rangoon, crowds in the markets and tea stalls, astrologers announcing the future at the great Shwedagon pagoda; families playfully dousing small ivory Buddhas in water. 
 
In a land of fear
4 May 1996
For 34 years the people of Burma have been ruled by a military junta as tyrannical and secretive as any in the modern era. Now, desperate for hard currency, the country's dictators are at pains to establish Burma as a holiday destination.

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BRIEF HISTORY
From the arrival of the British and Japanese to dictatorship via independence and civil war. A short history of a troubled nation.
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1988 REVOLT
1988 remains a year the Burmese will not forget, a year when revolution and repression clashed. Find out why.
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AUNG SAN SUU KYI

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

Aung San Suu Kyi is Burma's most famous pro-democracy activist. Despite winning the Burmese election and the Nobel Peace prize in 1991 she was placed under house arrest by the Burmese army.

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ARTICLES
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