The people of Myanmar (formerly called Burma) are in my thoughts

may their hopes be realised, with internal and international pressure speeding their peaceful movment towards democracy and away from needless poverty.

We must all support freedom in whatever way we can. -alex

The country of Burma is lush, rich in natural resources and home to dozens of peoples and cultures.

But due to a military government of isolationist economic mismanagement, the 45 million people there live without their human rights and in extreme poverty.

The country of Burma has been under military dictatorship since 1962.

http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/burmese/

http://www.world-newspapers.com/myanmar.html

http://www.mizzima.com/

About Mizzima

Mizzima News was established in August 1998 by a group of Burmese journalists in exile with the aim of promoting awareness about the ongoing situation in Burma and promoting democracy and freedom of expression in Burma by improving the flow of information in and out of the country and through advocacy and lobbying.

Mizzima started from humble beginnings: An online news service run by three Burmese in exile with a laptop and no telephone.

In the past eight years, Mizzima News Agency has matured into a widely-read and reliable source of news, information and analysis on Burma for readers in and outside the country.

Mizzima has become a window through which the international community can peer into news-starved Burma. We also strive to play an active role in uniting democratic forces working for change in Burma to secure national reconciliation and the restoration of democracy and human rights in Burma.

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/bpsai/about

About The Burma Project

The Burma Project was established by the Open Society Institute in 1994 for the purpose of increasing international awareness of conditions in Burma and helping the country make the transition from a closed to an open society.

The Burma Project first expanded into the rest of Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. The fall of Indonesia's General Suharto in 1998 and the country's ensuing democratic transition compelled the project to devote more attention to Indonesia. The Burma Project began supporting local Indonesian organizations working towards an open society, most notably Yayasan Tifa (TIFA Foundation).

Aside from its focus countries, Burma and Indonesia, the Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative now primarily supports organizations with a regional concentration, but, where circumstances give rise to special concern, it may support more localized projects.

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