Thugs seek "election"
Fleeing the Tatmadaw I do not usually post Burma stuff on this blog, but with the “elections” planned for later this year I think it is really important that as many people as possible know something...
View ArticleLetter to my MPs office: Re. Burma
I’m writing because I noticed that on 2nd Parliament both received the report Displaced Childhoods, and voted on a motion concerning the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi. I wondered what other steps are...
View ArticleHappy birthday Daw Aung San Suu Kyi!
Aung San Suu Kyi Today, or tomorrow for some readers ;) Aung San Suu Kyi will be spending her 65th birthday in detention. She’s been detained for a total of 14 years and 238 days. Basically on and off...
View ArticleDisplaced childhoods
Partners got to present their report Displaced childhoods to the select committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence of the NZ Parliament this morning. The committee gave 45 mins to...
View ArticleLetter from Burma
Photo of U Win Tin from The Irawaddy The International Herald Tribune features an opinion piece by one of the most significant pro-democracy leaders in Burma (aka Myanmar). In a message smuggled out of...
View ArticleGlobal Perspectives on reading the Bible – Call for contributors
Photo from Soil-net I have read the Bible professionally, and encouraged and taught others to read it, in three continents. The situations differed, including an African and a Western University, a...
View ArticleI was a refugee (for a couple of days, in law not fact)
Refugee for a day (or two) When Mobutu’s tyrannical kleptocracy in Zaire (now again Congo) began to fall apart, when people were desperate because they could not buy medicines or schooling for their...
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