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November 20th, 2012 at 1:31 pm » Comments (1)

I had to highlight President Obama’s trip to Myanmar because it shows that authoritarian regimes can change.    However, do I expect an American president to ever travel to North Korea?  I do not think it would happen any time soon because the changes required by the Pyongyang regime to be rewarded with such a trip would likely be too much for them to bare.  It seems to me the end of the gulags in North Korea would be just one pre-requirement that they could not meet.  Anyway I am glad
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June 28th, 2011 at 9:30 am » Comments (1)

The Producers of ‘The Lady’ might want to send Burma’s leaders The actress who plays the part of Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a forthcoming film has been barred from entering Burma. Michelle Yeoh, a former Bond girl, tried to enter the country on 22 June but was deported on the same day. An official told reporters that Michelle Yeoh was now blacklisted and would not be able to enter Burma. She has visited Burma before – in December, she met the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung
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August 11th, 2009 at 10:17 am » Comments (1)

I’m sure no one is surprised by the latest travesty going on in Burma: A Myanmar court convicted democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home. The head of the military-ruled country ordered her to serve an 18-month sentence under house arrest. The 64-year-old Nobel Peace laureate has already been in detention for 14 of the last 20 years, mostly under house arrest, and the extension will remove her from the political scene when the
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