Burma
More threats of international intervention amid continuing Burmese cyclone disaster
By our correspondent, August 22, 2008
UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon is due to meet with Burmese leaders today in an effort to pressure them to accept more international aid for the hundreds of thousands of cyclone survivors who are sti...
A reply to supporters of “humanitarian” intervention into Burma
By Peter Symonds, June 7, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site has received a number of emails critical of our article “Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?”. In one way or another, they all...
June 7, 2008
The WSWS received the following emails for and against the article “Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?” See: “A reply to supporters of "humanitarian...
Burma aid conference: Demands and ultimatums, but little money for the cyclone victims
By Peter Symonds, May 27, 2008
The only commodities in plentiful supply at the UN-sponsored donors conference in Rangoon last Sunday were self-interest, cynicism and hypocrisy. While the gathering had been called to elicit aid for ...
Death toll hits 78,000 in Burma as pressure mounts for international intervention
By Deepal Jayasekera, May 17, 2008
Two weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis struck the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma. Yesterday, the state media sharply revised the official death toll upward to 78,000 dead and 55,917 missing. The ...
Cyclone disaster worsens in Burma
By our correspondent, May 12, 2008
The cyclone disaster in Burma is continuing to worsen. The official death toll announced yesterday stands at 28,458 dead and 33,416 missing, but unofficial estimates put the figure much higher. Up to ...
Why the propaganda campaign for international intervention in Burma?
By Peter Symonds, May 10, 2008
The catastrophe wrought by Cyclone Nargis on the Burmese people has provoked an extraordinary campaign by the US and allied powers, and in the international media, demanding that the military junta op...
Death toll in Burma rises, as major powers press to intervene
By Peter Symonds, May 8, 2008
The full scale of the disaster caused by Cyclone Nargis in Burma is emerging as assessment and aid teams, local and international, move into devastated villages and towns of the Irrawaddy delta. While...
Bush administration moves to exploit Burma cyclone disaster
By Joe Kay, May 7, 2008
The Bush administration lost no time in seeking to exploit the devastating tragedy in Burma (Myanmar). It has seized upon the cyclone that struck the country over the weekend, killed at least 20,000 a...
A new Asian disaster: Cyclone kills tens of thousands in Burma
By K. Ratnayake, May 7, 2008
Another huge tragedy has engulfed an impoverished Asian country. Tens of thousands are dead, many more are missing and hundreds of thousands are homeless after tropical cyclone Nargis lashed the weste...
UN special envoy leaves Burma empty-handed
By Sujeewa Amaranath and Sarath Kumara, October 4, 2007
UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari left Burma (also known as Myanmar) on Tuesday without any indication of concessions from the country’s military junta. The cities of Rangoon and Mandalay are sti...
Burmese troops gun down protestors
By Sujeewa Amaranath and Peter Symonds, September 29, 2007
Over the past two days, the Burmese military regime has brutally suppressed large anti-junta protests in the major cities of Rangoon and Mandalay, breaking up crowds with tear gas, batons, rubber bull...
