Indo Asian News Service Last Updated: October 26, 2007 00:42:04 The news item was buried deep in the inside pages of a Delhi newspaper. It said that security forces on India’s side of the border had been instructed to stop any inflow of refugees or people fleeing the military junta’s crackdown in Burma (also known as Myanmar). [...]

For the past weeks, many of us who have travelled to Burma and respect the history and culture of that country and its wonderfully sensitive people, have been deeply concerned by the rush of tragic news of shootings and indiscriminate beatings of the public, including monks and students, the worst since the 1988 crackdown. The flow [...]