More on the protests in Pakokku here. Not a lot of information yet.
Boycott Burmese blood rubies. Who buys rubies anyway?
A nice CS Monitor article on the fragile state of Asia’s ‘petrol politics’ (fuel prices, lest we forget, touched off the Burmese protests in the first place.)
And more on Burma’s child soldier problem, the worst in the world and getting worse.
– Philip Ryan, Web Editor

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