Friday, 26 March 2021

Burma coup--shot in head

Nearly 90% of people killed by Myanmar junta forces since the coup have been shot dead and more than a quarter shot in the head - raising suspicions of intentional targeting. Grim graphic by and that draws on data. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Facebook removes posts of China hackers advocating hate towards Uighers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56518467

Burma coup--Wai Hnin Pwint Thon in Geneva--

 Hnin Pwint Thon Retweeted

Thousands in Burma risk beatings, arrests and worse during ongoing protests against the coup, says human rights activist . "Protesters keep coming out on the street calling for democracy and human rights because we don't want to live under another military dictatorship."
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Activist: Burmese people don't want to live under another dictatorship
Wai Hnin is a Burmese human rights activist with Burma Campaign UK.

Another bloody Sunday myanmar, 7 yr old shot in own home--sitting on father's lap.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/24/asia/myanmar-protests-7-year-old-killed-intl-hnk/index.html

 

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Highly recommended--Nien Cheng--Life and Death in Shanghai

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Shanghai-Cheng-Nien/dp/0802145167 

I first read an excerpt in Time Magazine.

In 2014 or so, I read the whole book.

It was my privilege and honor to meet and interview Nien Cheng in c1998. 

1997-2001 I worked at Radio Free Asia and was job harassed by the jerk boss of the Burmese section and his two women so-called editors when my programs became very popular in Burma.

Subsequently, I saw Nien Cheng's autographed photo in 2001 in a psychiatrist's office and he (Michael Hurd) also interviewed me on his Michael Hurd Show, for radio.

3-10-2021