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Burma VJ DVD
The award-winning documentary ‘Burma VJ’ tells the remarkable story of the brave young video journalists who, using hidden cameras, put their lives on the line to tell the real story of the 2007 uprising in Burma and the subsequent crackdown by the ruling military regime. They now face up to 65 years in prison for simply recording the events in the film.
Zoya Phan’s Autobiography: Little Daughter
Zoya Phan’s new autobiography, the gripping tale of her life, is out now. Order your copy here and help to fund the Burma Campaign UK.
Uplifting, tragic and entirely gripping, the extraordinary true story of Zoya Phan, forced to flee her country, now a high profile activist campaigning for freedom in her homeland.
Zoya is from the Karen ethnic group in Burma. When Burmese army soldiers attacked her village, and she and her family were forced to flee. They hid in the jungle for weeks before finding their way to a refugee camp in Thailand. She is now a refugee living in London.
Burma Campaign UK T-Shirts
Buy your “Free Burma” t-shirts now. They support the work of the Burma Campaign UK and are fairtrade and organic.
Buy yours here. Only £15.99 or £10 concessions (plus P+P)
Letters from Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi
In these fifty-two pieces Aung San Suu Kyi paints a vivid, poignant yet fundamentally optimistic picture of her native land. One woman’s vision, humanity and commitment to political and ethnic harmony won her party an overwhelming victory in the elections of May 1990; every facet of her personality is powerfully displayed here.
The Voice of Hope by Aung San Suu Kyi
The Voice of Hope is the most wide-ranging collection of Aung San Suu Kyi’s views on one of the most inspiring political/spiritual revolutions of our time. Now updated with fascinating new material, this extraordinary book not only gives an unprecedented glimpse into the heart and mind of one the world’s most courageous leaders but also offers the global community an impassioned call to action.
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi’s greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humorous reminiscences as well as independent assessments of her role in politics. Containing speeches, letters and interviews, these writings give a voice to Burma’s ‘woman of destiny’, who was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.
Courage: Eight Portraits by Gordon Brown
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures including Aung San Suu Kyi. These eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an inspirational courage that Gordon Brown celebrates in these fascinating and moving portraits.
Saffron Revolution Postcards
Inspired by last year’s Saffron Revolution, Burma Campaign supporter Peter Heneker has produced a beautiful collection of postcards and poems to help raise awareness and funds for the campaign. Each pack contains 8 beautiful cards and poems and costs just £5.00. All profits go to Burma Campaign UK.
To order email: ptheneker@aol.com
Unplayed Piano by Damien Rice
To celebrate Aung San Suu Kyi’s 62rd birthday, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan released a new single - ‘Unplayed Piano’. The song was written for Suu Kyi following a visit by Damien Rice to Burma in July 2004.
For the Lady [CD] by Various Artists
R.E.M, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Travis, Paul McCartney, Sting, Peter Gabriel, U2 and others have contributed tracks to a benefit album for the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi. The album features a song banned by Burma’s military regime, “Walk On,” which U2 dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi on their last album and a song in Burmese written by a jailed student democracy activist.
A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma’s Karen People by Benedict Rogers
The gentle Karen, a tribe in Burma’s eastern regions, call their country “a land without evil”. They number between four and five million, and have been fighting for half a century to keep their land and identity. Burma today, and Karen State in particular, is a land torn apart by evil. It is a land terrorised by a military regime which to this day perpetrates a catalogue of crimes against humanity. This compassionate but unflinching account of the Karen’s predicament is an important step in galvanising Western opinion about this ongoing act of genocide.
Beyond Rangoon VHS
In a movie based on real events tries to pick up the pieces of her life after the murder of her husband and son and goes on vacation with her sister to Burma. After losing her passport at a political rally, she is left on her own for a few days, during which time she falls in with students fighting for democracy. She and their leader, U Aung Ko, travel through Burma, whilst witnessing many bloody acts of repression by the dictatorship, in an attempt to escape to Thailand.
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off from his family and contact with other prisoners.
Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity by Martin Smith
This book charts the rise of modern political parties, unravels the complexities of the long-running insurgencies waged by opposition groups, and explains how a fertile and potentially prosperous Asian country has become one of the world’s poorest. This revised and updated edition of the standard work on 40 years of Burmese independence includes a new chapter on the 1990 elections and events since.
Burma: The Curse of Independence
This book is a rare treat. Interwoven with Tucker’s stylish and humorous chronicle is a lucid exposition of Burma’s troubled political history
Hidden Agendas by John Pilger
This book gathers together essays on a range of subjects including Burma, Fleet Street, East Timor, Vietnam today, the media and UK politics.
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument to life in colonial central and Southeast Asia.
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe
From the Land of Green Ghosts unforgettably evokes the realities of life in modern-day Burma and one man’s long journey to freedom despite almost unimaginable odds.
Trouser People, The: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire by Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall has written an unforgettable adventure story, the wry account of two journeys into the untraveled heart of Burma. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People recounts the story of George Scott, the eccentric British explorer, photographer, adventurer, and later Colonial Administrator of Burma, who introduced the Empire’s best game (soccer!) to Burmese natives and to the forbidden Wa state of headhunters, who were similarly enthusiastic about it.
The Invisible Ones by Karel van Loon (Author), David Colmer (Translator)
Min Thein, a lawyer in a sleepy provincial town in Burma, has struggled to avoid confrontation with his country’s military regime, despite defending its victims. But when he incurs the wrath of the district commander, he is shadowed, intimidated and thwarted - he loses his country, his wife and his sight. In this gripping novel about the life of a refugee, harrowing descriptions of the fate of Burma’s political prisoners blend with Buddhist myth and memories of a carefree childhood.
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