We went to the Intelligence Squared debate on Burma, the other night, the motion being:  Is it time to lift sanctions?  I had an  old friend speaking in favour of the motion, Thant Myint-U, and a new friend speaking against the motion, Brad Adams.
Thant has a very distinguished Burmese pedigree - his late grandfather was [...]

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So, with Burma night over a week ago now, Anna and I have been counting the money and talking to Prospect Burma about what they propose to do with  it.  We’re really excited because it looks as if it will go to sponsoring 12 exiled students for a year’s university in India.
We had some much [...]

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So Burma night is over.  Two days ago in fact, and I’m emerging from the exhausted, cranky, discombobulation of the last month or so of organisation and planning,and although we’re still “clearing up” (sending thank yous, raffle prizes, contacting auction winners, etc) I think we’ll be there soon.  How tired were we?  Well, yesterday’s celebratory [...]

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I don’t even know where to begin.   Does this story start in 1988 when the beautiful daughter of Burma’s first leader of independence, Aung San, was catapulted into the frontline?  Is it about her Nobel prize for peace?  Is it about the suffering she must be enduring now in prison?  Or how she must [...]

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