*Ø* Blogmanac | Shackled refugee starts campaign
"Australia: A FORMER Burmese political prisoner shuffled through Brisbane's CBD in leg irons today at the start of a campaign to raise awareness of the recent bloody crackdown in his home country.
"Htoo Htoo Han, 33, winced in pain as he slowly made his way through the city centre at the start of a three-week tour which will take in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
"The shackles, which will rub his ankles until they are raw, reminded Mr Han of the three years he spent in prison in Burma from 1989 after a pro-democracy student uprising.
"In prison, the then 19-year-old Mr Han was subjected to daily beatings and torture, and was chained for almost a year in a cell so squalid his body swelled because of the unsanitary conditions."
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"Blair is facing a storm of accusations that he beat up the threat of weapons of mass destruction to sway a sceptical public. But could the same charge be made against the media? Were intelligence agencies planting faulty intelligence through journalists to pave the path to war? And, more disturbingly, were some of those journalists willing participants in the stage managing of that information?" Read on about an Oz controversy
"Australia: A FORMER Burmese political prisoner shuffled through Brisbane's CBD in leg irons today at the start of a campaign to raise awareness of the recent bloody crackdown in his home country.
"Htoo Htoo Han, 33, winced in pain as he slowly made his way through the city centre at the start of a three-week tour which will take in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
"The shackles, which will rub his ankles until they are raw, reminded Mr Han of the three years he spent in prison in Burma from 1989 after a pro-democracy student uprising.
"In prison, the then 19-year-old Mr Han was subjected to daily beatings and torture, and was chained for almost a year in a cell so squalid his body swelled because of the unsanitary conditions."
I got it here
Free Burma radio stations
Also from Australia
"Blair is facing a storm of accusations that he beat up the threat of weapons of mass destruction to sway a sceptical public. But could the same charge be made against the media? Were intelligence agencies planting faulty intelligence through journalists to pave the path to war? And, more disturbingly, were some of those journalists willing participants in the stage managing of that information?" Read on about an Oz controversy
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