Saffron Revolution

Suu Kyi Trial: Burmese Protest With Small Signs Of Defiance

AP | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


YANGON, Myanmar — The spray-painted demands appear overnight: "Free Aung San Suu Kyi" read the scrawls on walls across this city _ only to be wh...

Obama, Burmese Monks Call For Release Of Aung San Suu Kyi

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 06.26.2009 | World


Hanna Ingber Win

Burmese monks talk to HuffPost about Suu Kyi's arrest, repression in Burma and the state of the democracy movement about a year and a half after the Saffron Revolution.

'Burma VJs: Reporting From a Closed Country': Filmmaking at Its Incendiary Best

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.11.2009 | World


Russ Wellen

Watching Burma VJs, it's natural to wonder how best the United States can help. With our motives suspect, it might not be a good idea for us to intervene directly beyond sanctions.

Karen Independence Movement: Seven Decades Of Futility?

Russ Wellen | Posted 04.23.2009 | World


Russ Wellen

At 60 years, the Karen resistance against the three A's -- annihilation, absorption, and assimilation -- is either the world's longest-running war for independence or its most extended exercise in futility.