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By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA (IPS) - The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session next week to discuss the bloody crackdown on protests by the military regime in Burma, which has left an unspecified number of Buddhist monks and other demonstrators dead and injured this week and hundreds under arrest.

The decision by the highest U.N. human rights body was the finishing touch to its three-week ordinary session, which was largely dedicated to procedural matters.

It is not clear how many protesters were killed this week in Burma, when tens of thousands of people took to the streets, led by Buddhist monks. Some media outlets have reported 13 or 14 deaths, but diplomats in Rangoon have warned that the death toll may be much higher, and activists speak of up to 200 victims of the security forces.

In Burma, which has been ruled by successive military regimes since a 1962 coup, a wave of protests broke out in mid-August, triggered by a 500 percent hike in oil prices. The demonstrations are the biggest since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was crushed with brutal force, with some 3,000 civilians killed by the army. ... Full story

Amra Bangali along with the members of some progressive groups are protesting against the massacre of Nandigram in front of the Indian High Comission in London on 3rd April 2007

With the goal to serve in the time of need, Amra Bengali has been active in the past and will continue to be so in the future. While communists oppress, capitalists exploit, and Hindis impose their cheap pseudo-culture on the great people of Bengal, there is a crying need today for new leadership, a new movement and a new socio-economic, political ideology to free all Bengali speaking people from their present state of oppression and exploitation and restore this rich and ancient culture to its former heights of glory. - Dinabandhu Maity

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by Ac. Krtashivananda Avt.

The author analyzes the reality of democracy as it functions in practical life, and points out its fatal flaws while also giving the requirements for removing these flaws. Prout says the right of everyone to vote is a defective concept. In order to vote, people must have education and be politically conscious. Without these requirements, their vote is meaningless.

Democracy hypocrisy: "The early suppression of popular government helped turn many Iraqis against the U.S. occupation."

by James Bovard

Few subjects generate more official lies than the U.S. government's devotion to spreading democracy abroad. Iraq has been the largest most recent geyser of such deceits. In order to understand future U.S. government messianic democracy efforts, it is worthwhile to review the opportunism with respect to representative government in Iraq.