Sarah's writing journal: Don't forget Burma

Sarah's writing journal: Don't forget Burma

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DON'T FORGET BURMA!

Don't Forget Burma

Don't Forget Burma
http://www.dontforgetburma.org/

We created this site because we wanted a space where normal people could show that although the media spotlight over Burma may have dimmed, we are still thinking of Burma.

The team that runs this site came together through the " Support the Monks' Protest in Burma " Facebook group (439,000 members) and has created the website www.burma-watch.org .

We're a team of activists from around the world that work around the clock on our sites, we were key to coordinating the Global Day of Action for Burma on October 6th 2007 and Aung Sang Suu Kyi day (October 24th 2007).

Don't Forget Burma
http://www.dontforgetburma.org/

UN Envoy visits prisons in Burma

According to the Bangkok Post, "United Nations Special Rapporteur Paulo Sergio Pinheiro on Monday investigated claims that the ruling junta last September beat up, killed and burned the bodies of Buddhist monks and their followers in temples, prisons and crematoriums in Rangoon."

UN human rights expert Pinheiro, who arrived in Rangoon Sunday after being denied a visa to visit the country since 2003, has been on the move since his plane touched down, sources said.

First he visited Kabaraye, the seat of Burma's Sangha, or the Buddhist hierarchy similar to the Catholic Church's senior clergy. Pinheiro held talks with the 47-man Sangha, the outcome of which was not disclosed.

He proceeded to Ngwe-Kyar-Yan monastery, South Okkalapa township, where monks were allegedly beaten and taken away in army trucks on the morning of September 27. The abbot of that monastery was severely beaten and according to some accounts, has died of his injuries.

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Possible digitization of Dead Sea Scrolls

Jerusalem Post reports that "an international committee of 10 experts is meeting in Jerusalem this week to discuss the future digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Sunday."

"The Antiquities Authority will then act on the recommendations of the committee, which is being convened on the 60th anniversary of the scrolls' discovery."

"Many of the thousands of fragments of the scrolls were photographed only once, around the time of their discovery."

Do Anglicans have a problem with Israel?

Rafael Medoff, writing for the Jerusalem Post, says in his article, "Does the Anglican Church have an Israel problem?":  

In England during the 1930s, the Archbishop of Canterbury - leader of the Anglican Church, which was the parent body of America's Episcopal Church - was Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, who contended that 'the Jews themselves' were to blame for the 'excesses of the Nazis.'

The article says: "Today, as during the Holocaust, there are those within the Episcopal Church whose positions on issues of Jewish concern have raised troubling questions. But it is clear that there are other voices, as well."

See the full article here.

The article is also reproduced on the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Web site  here: