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straightfromcamera — Prisoner no more..
Published: 2008-05-31 22:05:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 2663; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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An older image, from a protest last october.Current News: (May 31)
"This week, Rangoon extended by another year its five-year detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi:"
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"The Burmese-language daily, Myanma Ahlin, said cyclone survivors could get by without "bars of chocolate" from the international community:"
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Thank you very much for the feature!
I was happy to hear, the other day, that she was released!
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And your welcome.
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...This photo gave me chills. They're faces... So much emotion...
Reading the articles made me want to cry. I don't keep up with international news for that reason... but I probably should. How could a government be so callous, much less to their own people?
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I know, its hard to read
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Thank you genny
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I went and read the article. 
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I doubt the U.S. would get too involved. I'm afraid it would take a much smaller country to come to their aid. I don't think it would look too well in the international arena for a superpower to go beating up on a junta in a part of the world dominated by China. The U.S. is trying to normalize relations with China, as best as it can. What some may not realize is that if the U.S. has improved relations with China, it works to the U.S. advantage regarding Taiwan, and North Korea. So If the U.S. marches into Burma, they jeopardize any future improvement in the other 2 situations. SO in fact it becomes a numbers game, if the U.S. marches into Burma, they loose in about 5 other places. Yes it's sad, 
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excellent shot, love the composition and how the woman on the poster becomes 3 dimensional with the people around her. great work!
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Thanks
i agree, she almost jumps out of the poster
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i certainly hope we do not need to go to war over this (not your photo, but peoples' freedom).
great photo, really get a feel for the people who keep the hope alive.
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thanks blue, and yeah.. its a bad thing over there right now..
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Yeah, shes a political prisoner because she was the opposition leader to the current military government
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No, you misspelled the title. You typed Politial.
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your jedi mind tricks dont work on me
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"The Burmese-language daily, Myanma Ahlin, said cyclone survivors could get by without "bars of chocolate" from the international community"
One is left speechless by such words... I believe people who write these kind of things are those either threatened with death continuously or those who have never tasted true poverty or hunger... it is just horrible for even a junta to try to obstruct organisations and activities which will bring the most necessary things in times of need...
Nice composition by the way...
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I think it might come to war dealing with the military junta..
Hopefully not, but its really unfair
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