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BurmaNet regularly receives inquiries on a number of different topics related to Burma. If you have questions on any of the following subjects, please direct email to the following volunteer coordinators, who will either answer your question or try to put you in contact with someone who can:
Campus activism: zni@students.wisc.edu Boycott campaigns: Dan Orzech: orzech@well.com Buddhism: Buddhist Relief Mission: brelief@gol.com Chin history/culture: [volunteer needed] Fonts: tom@cs.colgate.edu High School Activism: Zan Rubin: cyclic@mediacity.com History of Burma: zni@students.wisc.edu International Affairs: Julien Moe: moe@interport.net Kachin history/culture: 74750.1267@compuserve.com Karen history/culture: Karen Historical Society: 102113.2571@Compuserve.com Mon history/culture: [volunteer needed] Naga history/culture: Wungram Shishak: z954001@oats.farm.niu.edu Burma-India border aungsan@giasd101.vsnl.net.in Pipeline Campaign : freeburma@irn.org Resettlement info: refugee_help@mail.serve.com Rakhaing (Arakan) history/culture:Kyaw Tha Hla: thisthis@nyc.pipeline.com Rohingya culture volunteer needed Selective Purchasing Dan Orzech: orzech@well.com Simon Billenness: sbillenness@frdc.com Shan history/culture: Sao Hpa Han: burma@ix.netcom.com Shareholder activism: S imon Billenness: sbillenness@frdc.com Teak Boycott Tim Keating: relief@igc.org Total - France Dawn Star: cd@utopia.EUnet.fr Tourism campaigns: bagp@gn.apc.org "Attn. S. Sutcliffe" volunteering: refugee_help@mail.serve.com World Wide Web: FreeBurma@POBox.com
REGIONAL CONTACTS: Australia: Australia Burma Council: azappia@spirit.com.au Canada: Canadian Friends of Burma: cfob@web.net Great Britain: Burma Action Group/UK bagp@gn.apc.org United States -- New England: Simon Billenness sbillenness@frdc.com Northwest Larry Dohrs dohrs@u.washington.edu [Feel free to suggest more areas of coverage] **************************************************************
NEWS GROUPS There are many news groups on the Internet with relevance for Burma. Many of these are USENET groups, such as: soc.culture.burma soc.culture.thai soc.culture asean soc.rights.human Many of the most useful, however, such as apc.reg.burma (going back to the end of 1993) apc.hrnet.asia-pac apc.hr.asiapacific apc.labr.asia apc.labr.global are IGC conferences (Inst for Global Communications, part of APC -- Association for Progressive Communications) To get access, you need an igc (or igc partner) account. You can find out how to get this by: writing to IGC, PO Box 29904, San Francisco, CA 94129-0904,USA, phoning (+1-415) 561 6100, or emailing to igc-info@igc.apc.org
BURMA NEWS UPDATE Burma News Update is a one-page news summary sent to subscribers by fax and/or email on an occasional basis, highlighting breaking news and providing important background information. Burma News Update is a publication of the Burma Project, Open Society Institute, and can also be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.soros.org/burma/burma_update/index.html. To subscribe, write: Burma Project Open Society Institute 400 West 59th Street New York, NY 10019 USA tel: (212) 548-0632 fax: (212) 548-4655 burma@sorosny.org If you would like to receive an email version, please send an email to Majordomo@soros.org. Leave the subject field blank, and in the body of the message, type "subscribe bnu (your email address here)".
BURMA-RELATED WEBSITES AND GOPHERS
A) BURMA SUPPORT COMMUNITY WEBSITES B) BURMESE ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS GROUPS C) SLORC WEBSITE D) GOVERNMENT WEBSITES E) UN SYSTEM ETC F)HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ORGANISATIONS G) HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS H) HUMANITARIAN I) CORPORATIONS AND THE RESISTANCE J ) ACADEMIC K) GENERAL INFORMATION L) BUDDHIST M) MEDIA N ) SEARCH ENGINES O) SITES FRANCOPHONES
A) BURMA SUPPORT COMMUNITY GOPHERS AND WEBSITES BURMANET GOPHER gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:2998/7REG-BURMA This is perhaps the best Burma information search tool available online. It searches the igc conference reg.burma (whence cometh burmanet-l) from its beginning at the end of 1993. However, since the gopher has a default of 40 topics, you have to append to your query "-m 13" (or whatever maximum number of topics you want, being careful to leave a gap between your keyword and the hyphen). (e.g."kachin -m 13" gave 13 documents out of 769. "kachin -m 130" gave 130). It also supports Boolean searches. Thus, when I put in "kachin -m 300 AND women", it gave me 300 (out of 352), and when I narrowed it down to "kachin -m 300 AND women AND 1994", it gave me 212 documents. (See item 14, below, for general search engines) BURMA CENTRUM NEDERLAND (BCN) http://www.xs4all.net/~bcn/english/english.html BURMA SONG (artistic and multimedia materials promoting democracy in Burma): http://users.imagiware.com/wtongue BURMA PROJECT, BERLIN http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~merdian/burma.htm BURMA RELIEF (JAPAN) http://www2.gol.com/users/brelief/Index.htm BURMA SUPPORT GROUP, AUSTRALIA http://www.ozemail.com.au/~winpe/ CANADIAN FRIENDS OF BURMA www.web.net/~cfob DANISH BURMA COMMITTEE URL http://www.aif.dk/burmacommittee FREE BURMA COALITION (Activist. Mainly students) http://danenet.wicip.org/fbc FREEBURMA WEBSITE (Lots of stuff and links. Can be overwhelming) http://FreeBurma.org http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/index.html "Please write to FreeBurma@pobox.com to add a site or for further information." Ordering videos about Burma: http://sunsite.unc.edu/freeburma/analoginfo.html BurmaNet News back issues: ftp://Sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/political-science/freeburma Burma.Net: http://www.Burma.net JEREMY CHIEN'S PAGE (some useful stuff, but mainly old docs and dead links) http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu:80/~jrchien/ OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE'S BURMA PROJECT (Large, well-organised site with lots of links, good READING LIST etc.etc) URL http://www.soros.org/burma/html http://www.soros.org/burma/linkread.html Burma news archive http://www.soros.org/burma/burmarch.html PEOPLES' FORUM ON BURMA (JAPAN) http://www2.gol.com/users/rutledge/pfb/ THE BURMESE GULAG-- JOHN PILGER http://caq.com/CAQ58burmese.html
B BURMESE ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS GROUPS KAREN WEBSITE (Karen National League) http://www.Karen.org MONLAND INFO (Somewhat dated material) http://www.albany.edu/~gb661/mons.txt MON LANGUAGE AND MON PEOPLE http://www.centralnet.net/honsawatoi.Monland.html SHAN RESOURCES AND INFORMATION: http://www.netcom.com/~burma/tai/shan.html. KANBAWSA: ARTICLES ON SHAN STATE http://www.iware.com/~khai/kanbawsa/ NAGALAND HOMEPAGE http://www.rpi.edu/~shishz/ MUSLIMS OF BURMA http://www.Nayzak.com/~aliburma/muslims.htm PALAUNG WEBSITE http://www.ad2000.org/profiles/palaung.htm AKHA HERITAGE FOUNDATION (mainly Thailand) http://www.thailine.com/akha/newslett.htm
C) SPDC WEBSITES SLORC HOMEPAGE (Very jolly site, full of pics of soldiers, dancers and temples) http://www.myanmar.com/ MYANMAR MISSION, GENEVA http://www3.itu.int/MISSIONS/Myanmar/
D) GOVERNMENT WEBSITES ASEAN SECRETARIAT (with homepages of most ASEAN countries) http://www.aseansec.org/ SINGAPORE GOVT http://www.gov.sg/ MALAYSIA GOVT http://www2.jaring.my/ MALAYSIAN MISSION, NEW YORK http://www.undp.org/missions/malaysia/ JAPAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS http://www2.nttca.com:8010/infomofa/ EUROPEAN UNION (Big, messy site. No search engine as of 7 Sept 97) http://www.europa.eu.int/news-en.htm US STATE DEPT http://www.state.gov/ HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON BURMA FROM THE US STATE DEPT http://www.state.gov/www/issues/human_rights/1996_hrp_report/burma.html USIA - US GOVT STATEMENTS/LAWS REGARDING BURMA: http://www.usia.gov/regional/ea/burma/burma/htm US CONGRESS INFORMATION ON BURMA http://www.clark.net/pub/burmaus/ AUSTRALIAN GOVT/ INTL NEWS ON BURMA http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4474
UK GOVT (FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE - FCO) http://193.114.50.10/ E) UN SYSTEM ETC UNDCP WEBSITE (contains a good general list of the UN system) http://www.undcp.org/index.html UN LINKS (Geneva-based UN websites) http://www.unog.ch/frames/unlinks.htm UN HUMAN RIGHTS HOMEPAGE (Resolutions, reports, human rights instruments etc. Lots of stuff, very well organised. Documents aussi en francais) http://www.unhchr.ch/HCHR_UN.HTM UN NEW YORK http://www.un.org/ UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/ UNICEF SEARCH http://www.unicef.org/search/search.htm UNDP GOPHER gopher://gopher.undp.org/ DEPARTMENT FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS -RELIEFWEB http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Reports on floods in Burma) ESCAP (Bangkok) http://www.un.org/Depts/escap/ UNHCR http://www.unhcr.ch/ REFWORLD (UNHCR Documentation Centre's website. Very well organised. Lots of refugee and other documents) www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld.htm ILO http://www.ilo.org/ IMF http://www.imf.org/external/ ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (Financial data on Myanmar) http://www.asiandevbank.org/index.html WORLD BANK http://www.worldbank.org/ WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION http://www.wto.org/wto/index.htm
F) HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER RESOURCES AND ORGANISATIONS IGC HOMEPAGE (HR networks) http://www.igc.org/igc/ GREENNET HOMEPAGE (ditto) http://www.gn.apc.org/ ONEWORLD HOMEPAGE (links to 200 groups) http://www.oneworld.org/partners/partners_list/index.html DIRECTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET http://shr.aaas.org/dhr.htm RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL www.rightsinternational.org AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL http://www.amnesty.org/ May I add that the http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/countries/indx316.htm (AI documents on Burma) http://www.angelfire.com/al/homepageas/index.html (AI homepage on Burma incl. search and mailing list. Most recent Urgent Actions, anouncements Plus email addresses of AI Burma coordinators worldwide). HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/ASIA gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:5000/11/int/hrw/asia/burma http://www.hrw.org/research/burma.html INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS http://www.icftu.org/english/turights/eturacon.html INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS http://www.ifj.org/ INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CHEMICAL, ENERGY, MINING AND GENERAL WORKERS' UNIONS (ICEM) http://www.icem.org/ HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNET (Also documents and networking) http://www.hri.ca/index.htm INDEX ON CENSORSHIP http://www.oneworld.org/index_oc/index.html RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK http://www.ran.org/ran/ TERRA (environmental) http://www.irn.org/terra/index.html FORUM OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERS OF THE ASIA/PACIFIC (lots of good human rights, academic and other Burma-related links) http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/bigkarma/fdlap/fdlinits.html INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT (francais, espanol, English) http://www.ichrdd.ca/ INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION http://www.ipu.org/ PARC HOMEPAGE (NGO network, Japan, Publishes AMPO) http://www.jca.or.jp/parc/index-e.htm INTERNATIONAL COMMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS http://www.icrc.ch
G) HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS UN HUMAN RIGHTS HOMEPAGE (Resolutions, reports, human rights instruments etc. Lots of stuff, very well organised. Documents aussi en francais) http://www.unhchr.ch PROJECT DIANA (human rights documents) http://www.law.uc.edu:81/Diana/index.html UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA HUMAN RIGHTS LIBRARY http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/index.html HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNET http://www.hri.ca/index.htm
H) HUMANITARIAN DR CYNTHIA'S HOMEPAGE http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kwangett/burma/ BURMESE REFUGEE PROJECT, run by SloMSIC, IFMSA: http://www.sou.uni-lj.si/mp/slomsic/burma/burma.html DEPARTMENT FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS -RELIEFWEB http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Reports on floods in Burma)
I) CORPORATIONS AND THE OPPOSITION CORPORATIONS AND THE OPPOSITION/ETHICS OF INVESTMENT IN BURMA http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3108/ BURMA, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY http://www.efund.com/burma_intro.html UNOCAL http://www.unocal.com/myanmar/ http://www.unocal.com/myanmar/index.htm http://www.unocal.com/myanmar/index.htm http://www.unocal.com/ogops/myanmar.htm http://www.unocal.com/ogops/yadindx.htm
TOTAL http://www.total.com/index.html http://www.total.com/us/cahier/yadana.html
J) ACADEMIC UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/myanmar/ LEIDEN UNIVERSITY BURMA VIRTUAL LIBRARY (pretty feeble) http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeas/burma.html INST. OF SE ASIA STUDIES (Singapore) http://www.iseas.ac.sg/iseas.html SOAS BURMESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (links to online resources) http://www.soas.ac.uk/SouthEastAsia/Burmese.html NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR BURMA STUDIES http://www.niu.edu/acad/burma/
K) GENERAL INFORMATION CONFLITS CONTEMPORAINS (some good links) http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/burmaf.html INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, is a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University. http://www.inncore.ulst.ac.uk MAP OF BURMA http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/country_maps/burma.gif KISCADALE PUBLICATIONS (Books on Burma) http://www.britainburma.demon.co.uk/Kiscadale/index.html BRITAIN BURMA ASSOCIATION http://www.britainburma.demon.co.uk/ MYANMA COMPUTER CO (Map, links, Yangon Directory etc) http://members.aol.com/mccltd/index.htm MYANMAR, LAND OF PAGODAS (general info, stats etc. interesting links. No politics) http://triton.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~moe/myanmar.htm BANGKOKNET BURMA PAGES http://www.bangkoknet.com/indochina/burma.html
L) BUDDHIST
BUDDHIST PEACE FELLOWSHIP http://www.igc.apc.org/bpf/ JOURNAL OF BUDDHIST ETHICS http://jbe.la.psu.edu/ BUDDHIST VIRTUAL LIBRARY http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html BIRMINGHAM PEACE PAGODA -- SAYADAW U REWATA DHAMMA http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~pt/buddhism/uk/talaka.htm INDEX OF BUDDHIST INTERNET RESOURCES http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~pt/buddhism/resource/index.htm THERAVADA TEXT ARCHIVES http://world.std.com/~metta/ftp/index.html BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY http://lanka.com/dhamma/bpsframe.html
M) MEDIA
BBC WORLD SERVICE (RADIO) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ BBC WORLD SERVICE (RADIO/BURMESE) http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/burmese/index.htm RADIO FREE ASIA (Burmese) http://www.rfa.org/burmese.html DEMOCRATIC VOICE OF BURMA http://www.communique.no/dvb/ "THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF NEWS LINKS" http://pppp.net/links/news/ WEBDO: ASIAN PRESS ONLINE http://www.webdo.ch/webactu/webactu_presseasie.html AFP (BURMA) http://www.afp.com/go/english/countries/light/burma/ ASIA TIMES (SEARCH) http://www.asiatimes.com/forms/search.html ASIA WEEK HOMEPAGE http://www.pathfinder.com/@CVpDLQQADwgo*WvH/Asiaweek/ BANGKOK POST HOMEPAGE http://www.bangkokpost.co.th/ FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW http://www.feer.com (Click Cancel on the dialogue box and follow instructions) THE NATION (BANGKOK) http://www.nationmultimedia.com/ SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST http://www.scmp.com/ STRAITS TIMES http://straitstimes.asia1.com/ THE STAR (Malaysia) http://www.jaring.my/star/ THE HINDU http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/thehindu.html JAPAN TIMES (No search engine) http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR http://www.csmonitor.com/ CNN INTERACTIVE http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/index.html DEJA NEWS HOMEPAGE http://www.dejanews.com/ INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE http://www.iht.com/ THE ECONOMIST http://www.economist.com/tfs/home_tframeset.html NEW INTERNATIONALIST http://www.oneworld.org/ni/index.html WALL STREET JOURNAL http://interactive2.wsj.com/bin/login?Tag=/&URI=/Publib (Commercial) WASHINGTON POST http://www.WashingtonPost.com/
N) SEARCH ENGINES ALL-IN-ONE SEARCH http://www.albany.net/allinone/ All-in-One Search ALTA-VISTA http://altavista.digital.com/" AltaVista HOTBOT http://www.hotbot.com/
O) SITES FRANCOPHONES
INFO-BIRMANIE http://www.altern.org/odp ASSOCIATION SUISSE-BIRMANIE URL http://www.birmanie.int.ch AMNISTIE http://www.fdn.fr/~amnesty/index.html AMNISTIE CANADIENNE (ARCHIVES) http://WWW.AMNISTIE.QC.CA/cgi/ai_rac.cgi REPORTEURS SANS FRONTIERES www.rsf.fr
DIGIPRESSE http://www.digipresse.imaginet.fr/asiabiz/veille/peps/pep.html
MOTEURS DE RECHERCHE FRANCOPHONE EUREKA: LES ANNUAIRES DE L'INTERNET FRANCOPPHONE http://www.eureka-fr.com/ LOKACE: VOTRE MOTEUR DE RECHERCHE FRANCOPHONE http://iplus10.iplus.fr/lokace/ ********************************************************
UPDATES (OCTOBER 1998)
WEBSITES http://www.mayaconcept.com/pays/asie/birman01.htm http://www.csburma.org/ http://pw2.netcom.com/~burma/tai/shan.html http://www.communique.no/dvb/ *********************** GERMANY Aegee Human Rights Working Group c/o Marcus Khoury Auenstr. 102 D-80469 Munchen Germany khouryma@cip.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Heiko & War War Min Schaefer Beim Herbstenhof 42 (++49 70 71) 55 25 54 eMail: ************************** www.amnesty-usa.org/urgact/ www.freeburmacoalition.org/ www.soros.org/burma/crisis/index.htm www.burmacare.org/burma_7.htm
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