November, 2007 - Volume 15 No.11

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Editorial_November 2007

Where There’s Struggle, There’s Hope
The September 2007 uprising was a struggle between the sons of Buddha and the forces of darkness and repression. Kyaw Zwa Moe remembers the students’ uprising in 1988 and asks what can be done to stop this regime of terror.

A Rangoon Diary
Photojournalist Thierry Falise looks at nine days that rocked Burma and shook the world. His photographs take us through the streets of Rangoon and follow the monks from those first days of hope to the bloody crackdown that ensued.


Doctor of Philanthropy
Dr Jumpei Yamamura toils tirelessly to treat the patients that Japan would rather ignore—its asylum seekers and refugees.

Who’ll Clean Up the Mess?
Burma’s economy is a shambles, wrecked by incompetence, corruption and greed. With an infrastructure built around the military, can democracy come to the rescue of the Burmese people?


BOOK REVIEW
Tales from the Land in Between
On the Thai-Burmese border refugees live in limbo, spies brush shoulders with revolutionaries and nothing is quite as it seems, writes Richard Humphries, in a new book reviewed by Bertil Lintner.

The Long Nightmare
Naomi Mann feels the pulse of Rangoon in the aftermath of the crackdown.


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