[LAF] FW: MEDIA TALK: 'Reporting Burma: Media Failure or Mission Impossible?', Tuesday, 22 November - 7.30pm

[Joy Wood]

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>To: Joy Wood <joy_helbin at hotmail.com>
>Subject: MEDIA TALK: 'Reporting Burma: Media Failure or Mission 
>Impossible?', Tuesday, 22 November - 7.30pm
>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:45:45 +0000 (GMT)
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>                   REPORTING
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>                   MEDIA FAILURE, OR MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
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>With the BBC's Nita May,
>             and  Richard Jones of Premier Oil. Others TBC
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>Moderated by Donna
>               Guest, Researcher,
>           Thailand and Myanmar, International Secretary for Amnesty 
>International
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>Who cares about Burma? Why haven’t international media paid
>             more attention?
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>Burma is resource-rich, and could have shared in the South-East
>             Asian bonanza of recent decades. It hasn’t. So the question
>             remains: Have the world’s media done enough to focus attention
>             on the plight of the Burmese people? Or are the odds against 
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>             in Burma simply stacked too high? And what of its neighbours? 
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>             for example, China and Thailand just too self-interested?
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>Since 1962 Burma has been ruled by an army which crushed a national
>             uprising in 1988, and keeps democracy leader and Nobel Peace 
>Prize-winner
>             Aung San Suu Kyi under what is now feared permanent house 
>arrest.
>             Human rights violations ?extra-judicial killings, forced 
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>             imprisonment without due process, torture ?are endemic. 
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>             and healthcare services are fast deteriorating, the economy is 
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>             tatters, and there are armed conflicts with a variety of 
>‘ethnic
>             insurgents? There is no freedom of expression.
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>Come and join in what promises to be a crucial debate about reporting
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>Donna Guest has been working the Thailand and Myanmar
>             desk for Amnesty International since 1989. During that time, 
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>February, and
>             again in December of 2003.
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