Sans Serif

Chellis Yang alerted me to this blog out of China. Shanghaiist, which is normally dedicated to music and nightlife, is now running up-to-date information on the rescue effort following last week’s terrible earthquake.
Also, more on Burma from the BBC. And an interesting article on the very different responses from the Burmese and Chinese governments to [...]

The aid is there, but the people can’t get it. Early reports out of Burma last week revealed that the military junta–infamous for decades of oppression, censorship, and murder, and in the news again last fall for brutally squelching civilian protests–was seizing food and supplies that came into the country in the aftermath of the [...]

The death toll in Myanmar (Burma) from the cyclone is now at 22,000.
During the government crackdown in September and October, I linked to several blogs within the country that reported on the imprisonment and beating of monks and other protesters. In the wake of the cyclone, however, it’s difficult to find up-to-the-minute blogs out of [...]

If you’ve been paying attention only to American media, you might have sort of forgotten about Burma. But the BBC reports that thousands are likely missing, including entire families, and citizens are living in fear of further arrests, beatings, and torture. They worry for the safety of their family members who have been rounded up [...]

The government in Burma has cut off internet access, seized cell phones, and destroyed land lines in an attempt to stop the flow of information out of the country during the junta’s violent crackdown on peaceful protesters. Over the last several days, many bloggers have reported on soldiers shooting into the crowds, posting first-hand accounts [...]

These photographs from the Telegraph show a wounded Japanese photographer lying in the street in Rangoon amid the protests in Burma, attempting to take more pictures of the violence, while a soldier stands over him with a gun. In the next photograph, the soldier is gone, and the photographer, Kenji Nagai, is dead, having been [...]

On the 10th day of protests against Burma’s military government, police fired into the crowd of monks and other peaceful demonstrators, killing nine. Last night, monasteries were raided, and monks were beaten and arrested. Click here for reports from Rangoon residents, published on the BBC website.
There are many deaths on the streets of Rangoon. There [...]

The Burmese government has begun threatening violence against the tens of thousands of protesters who are marching in the streets of Rangoon and other cities. The above photograph from Asia Pacific shows the pacifist army of monks who are leading the protests against the junta. Some 3,000 were killed in similar protests in Burma in [...]