Burma Special
With the world’s eyes focused on Burma we take a look back at our coverage of this brutally run country. Check out our unrivalled insight and analysis.
In Burma
Burma's forced labour
- By Carole Reckinger
- 09 June 2008
The brutal Burmese government has for years forced citizens to work for free. Twenty per cent of those sentenced to prison with hard labour perish. Meanwhile, just who will rebuild the cyclone-hit country?
Burma's lost children
- By Katy Barnett
- 16 May 2008
In the second of her exclusive reports for newstatesman.com, Katy Barnett highlights the efforts of relief workers to reunite families torn apart by Cyclone Nargis
The view from inside Burma
- By Katy Barnett
- 13 May 2008
Save The Children child protection advisor Katy Barnett is one of the few foreign aid workers to have been able to operate in Burma. Here she reports for newstatesman.com about the work she is doing in the wake of the cyclone
Burma’s referendum of the absurd
- By David Mathieson
- 08 May 2008
Despite the terrible cyclone death toll, Burma's military junta is pushing ahead with its spurious constitutional referendum. Plus don't miss Maung Zarni on Burma's Neros
Forgotten Burma
- By Rachel Aspden
- 01 May 2008
Burma is back in the news in the wake of the terrible cyclone. Ahead of this tragedy Rachel Aspden visited the forgotten Burmese resistance. Here is her report.
Where next for Burma?
- By Carole Reckinger
- 08 April 2008
Six months ago the world watched a courageous attempt led by Buddhist monks to replace military dictatorship with democracy. But what's the situation in Burma today?
Nasty, brutish and short
- By David Scott Mathieson
- 02 November 2007
The brutality and bluster of Burma's military leaders conceal the reality of an army increasingly reliant on forcibly conscripted child soldiers
Drugs bring Beijing into Burma
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 01 November 2007
China doesn't care about democracy in Burma, only about stability
My last conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi
- By John Pilger
- 04 October 2007
John Pilger recalls the last time he met with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
Why Burma was crushed
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 04 October 2007
As Burmese pro-democracy activists are rounded up, the west looks to China to intervene. We are failing to see the seismic changes that authoritarian capitalism is bringing the world.
Also in Burma
Burma - free and socialist
- By Dorothy Woodman
- 04 October 2007
Taken from The New Statesman 28 February 1948
We are winning the propaganda war
- By Marcus Brogden
- 04 October 2007
Marcus Brogden talks to the veteran activist Aung Zaw who says though the military junta has clamped down on the uprising the pro-democracy forces have been boosted
Burma: sanctions are not the solution
- By Dafydd Hugh
- 02 October 2007
NewStatesman.com's coverage of the Burma uprising continues. In this eyewitness report Dafydd Hugh argues that British businesses should not pull out
Burma's hour of need
- By Sholto Byrnes
- 27 September 2007
Fine words are not enough. The international community must find a coherent strategy to deal with the generals - and China is the key.
The world must act for Burma
- By Zoya Phan
- 27 September 2007
Zoya Phan, who spent 10 years in a Thai refugee camp after the Burmese military attacked her village, explains the emergence of the democracy movement and calls on the world to act
The role of the sons of Lord Buddha
- By Maung Zarni
- 27 September 2007
Academic Maung Zarni explains the role of the Buddhist monks in the Burma uprising and explains how for years foreign countries have helped propped up the brutal military regime
Burma: the history behind the protests
- By Michael Charney
- 26 September 2007
Burma specialist Dr Michael W Charney, author of the History of Modern Burma, gives his analysis of the current crisis in the south east Asian country
The way I see it: Htein Lin
- 26 July 2007
Htein Lin is a Burmese artist. He was accused by the Myanmar military government of planning opposition protests and imprisoned from 1998-2004. A show of the work he produced in prison, “Burma Inside Out”, is at Asia House, London W1, until 13 October. www.hteinlin.com
It could have been me
- By William Hague
- 14 May 2007
William Hague on Saw Naing Naing
A politician whose only crime has been daring to speak out in support of democracy is serving a 21-year prison sentence
In association with Amnesty International
Roads to Mandalay
- By Thant Myint-U
- 05 March 2007
Burma's colonial days are long gone, Thant Myint-U writes, but echoes of that era still remain
Burma Special: A nation in waiting
- By Peter Popham
- 14 August 2006
It is a society infested with spies, where people live in terror of a hardline military regime, yet the pro-democracy movement can still make its voice heard. Will the UN Security Council at last help Burma unseat its brutal junta?
