No. 280 / June 1996

BURMA
A cry for freedom

  • Special feature - exclusive to this Web site
    A selection of stills from John Pilger's film 'Inside Burma: Land of Fear', plus the full transcript of the film, and a movie clip of his interview with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

  • Letter from this months editor
    John Pilger

  • A cry for freedom
    John Pilger makes a journey into 'the prison without walls' that is modern Burma.

  • Slave nation
    Few escape Burma's new slavery. A civil servant tells his story.

  • SIMPLY - A brief history of Burma

  • Heroin's hidden deals
    What's the junta doing signing a deal with opium-warlord Khun Sa? Faith Doherty has her suspicions.

  • BURMA - THE FACTS

  • Icon of hope
    She's Burma's elected leader and her people's most potent symbol of democracy. Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi interviewed by John Pilger.

  • Out of control
    Put together dirty needles, unprotected sex and a military dictatorship and what do you get? Chris Beyrer and Faith Doherty report on an AIDS crisis of alarming proportions.

  • Will Burma rise again?
    Burmese journalist Zaw Gyi tests the climate.

  • A kaleidoscope of peoples
    Burma's extraordinary ethnic mix

  • Come to Burma!
    Why tourists and investors shouldn't, by Juli Mahr, Sarah Sutcliffe and Dave Todd.

  • ACTION
    What you can do to help.

THE COVER PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS A PROTESTER ON THE STREETS OF RANGOON DURING THE PRO-DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATIONS OF SUMMER 1986. THE MILITARY BRUTALLY CRUSHED THE PROTESTS, KILLING THOUSANDS.
PHOTOGRAPH BY STEVE LEHMAN OF SABA
MAGAZINE DESIGNED BY ANDREW KOKOTKA
ONLINE MAGAZINE MAINTAINED BY SIMON LOFFLER

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