1824-1886 - There are 3 wars between Burma and Britain, and Burma is annexed to British India.
January 1947 - Britain gives Burma independence after negotiations.
July 1947 - Aung San and six members of his interim government are assassinated.
January 1948 - Burma wins independence from Britain.
March 1962: General Ne Win makes a coup d'état and wins; his government adopts socialism and ruins the country economicaly.
November 1981 - Ne Win steps down as president.
September 1987 - Rice shortages hit the country.
March 1988 - There are several protests in the capital by students who want democracy.
August 1988 - Police open fire on protests and hundreds are killed.
September - Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Aung San, forms National League for Democracy party.
October - The army kills thousands of people in demonstrators.
June 1989 - The country is renamed as Myanmar and the capital as Yangon.
July: Suu Kyi and her deputy, Tin Oo, are put under house arrest.
May 1990: There are general elections. Suu Kyi's party wins, but military refuses to hand over the power.
October 1991: Suu Kyi is awarded Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful struggle against the military regime.
July 1992: Gen. Than Shwe is named head of junta, prime minister and defense minister.
July 1995: Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
July 1997: Myanmar is admitted to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
September 2000: Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest after attempting to leave Yangon for a political meeting.
May 2002: Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
May 2003: Suu Kyi taken into "protective custody" after an assasination attempt from the government.
November 2005: Government begins moving administrative capital to Naypyitaw.
January 2007: Russia and China urge Myanmar to stop persecuting opposition and minority groups.
Aug. 15: Government raises fuel prices 500 per cent.
Sept. 5: Soldiers fire warning shots at a monks' protest in Pakokku, injuring several of them.
Sept. 22: As many as 10,000 monks march in protest in Mandalay. In Yangon, Suu Kyi greets monks as they march past her house. It is her first public appearance in more than four years.
Sept. 24: About 100,000 people led by Buddhist monks demonstrate in the largest anti-government protests.
lunes, 12 de mayo de 2008
viernes, 11 de abril de 2008
Timeline of Kosovo
February 3 - Boris Tadic´ is reelected president of Serbia.
February 8 - The Serbian minister for Kosovo claims that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on February 17.
February 14 - Former Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi says the province will unilaterally declare independence within the next 4 days.
- Police in Kosovska Mitrovica report an explosion.
February 8 - The Serbian minister for Kosovo claims that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on February 17.
February 14 - Former Kosovo Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi says the province will unilaterally declare independence within the next 4 days.
- Police in Kosovska Mitrovica report an explosion.
martes, 8 de abril de 2008
Raúl Reyes, the second in command of the FARC guerilla organization, is killed in a Colombian military operation in northern Ecuador.
Why? He was a terrorist and a bad person.
When? 1-March-2008.
Where? Ecuador.
What? He was killed in a military operation in northern Ecuador.
Why? He was an important terrorist of the FARC and a bad person.
Why? He was a terrorist and a bad person.
When? 1-March-2008.
Where? Ecuador.
What? He was killed in a military operation in northern Ecuador.
Why? He was an important terrorist of the FARC and a bad person.
lunes, 28 de enero de 2008
Primera Plana
Insurgents in Pakistan
Release Children
The armed, Pakistani militians that
took a school in northeast Pakistan
surrendered to the Tribe's negociators
and released 250 children the had been
keeping as hostages. The Al-Qaedans Snowstorms in China Kill 12
went to the school for protection when Heavy snowstorms have been hitting China,
they were escaping from the police. Killing 12 people and wounding many many
More. The government sent an alert to warn
everyone. There have been many accidents,
there hadn't had been snowstorms like these
in many years.
Cierra Misr (Egipto) Frontera
con Ghaza
Ministers of some Arab Countries created an
allianze against the frontier control of Hamas.
Every hole that had been made was closed by
Egyotian authorities. The only hole left is
Salahedin.
viernes, 18 de enero de 2008
Bombings and Killings in Peshawar
On Thursday, 22 people were killed in a bombing on a Shiya Mosque on Peshawar, a city in northwest Pakistan.
The bombing hit the Imambarghah Mirza Qasim Baig, where Shiyas congregate for ceremonies on special days, like yesterday, 
the begining of Ashura, holiday that conmemorates the death of Imam Hussein, who was the grandson of the prophet Muhammad.
the begining of Ashura, holiday that conmemorates the death of Imam Hussein, who was the grandson of the prophet Muhammad.In a frontier control fort, near Peshawar, was a battle for its control, where at least 7 were killed, 18 fled and 18 more are reported missing. The militants broke the walls of the old outpost on the Afghan border with explosives.
The outpost is in the tribal and Taliban territory of South Waziristan, which is a stronghold for the Talibans, and there lives the warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who is the prime suspect of the assassination of Benasir Bhutto (q.e.p.d.)
Nearly 300 fighters with rifles, bazookas and granades went to take the fort.
Pakistan has attempted to crack down on the largely lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border under U.S. pressure. U.S. intelligence concluded in 2007 that that Taliban and its al Qaeda allies have carved out a new safe haven in that region, using it to stage attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
The outpost is in the tribal and Taliban territory of South Waziristan, which is a stronghold for the Talibans, and there lives the warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who is the prime suspect of the assassination of Benasir Bhutto (q.e.p.d.)
Nearly 300 fighters with rifles, bazookas and granades went to take the fort.
Pakistan has attempted to crack down on the largely lawless tribal areas along the Afghan border under U.S. pressure. U.S. intelligence concluded in 2007 that that Taliban and its al Qaeda allies have carved out a new safe haven in that region, using it to stage attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
jueves, 17 de enero de 2008
Bombing in Karachi kills 10.
Yesterday, In the port of Karachi, at Monday evening, a woman in a marked hid a bomb under her fruit stand and detonated it at the peak hour; it killed 10 and wounded nearly 50, some of them critically. The bombing coincided with a visit to Karachi by Pervez Musharraf, the much hated President.
“No symbolism should be read in the blast,” the spokesman of Pervez, Rashid Qureshi, “It was in a different part of the city. Nothing
to do with the president.”
Karachi is a very important industrial city, and it have been having lately many extremist violence. No one claimed responsibility. The bomb was planted under a fruit cart, the bombing was in a crowded industrial neighborhood in northern Karachi. It ripped through a throng of people gathered around fruit stalls during the evening rush hour.
Local television news channels showed the wreckage of a motorbike, its mangled parts scattered on the asphalt. Fruit and vegetables splattered with blood were spread about the area.
Police officers cordoned off the area after the bombing, and the ensuing panic and chaos caused a traffic jam in parts of the city.
to do with the president.”Karachi is a very important industrial city, and it have been having lately many extremist violence. No one claimed responsibility. The bomb was planted under a fruit cart, the bombing was in a crowded industrial neighborhood in northern Karachi. It ripped through a throng of people gathered around fruit stalls during the evening rush hour.
Local television news channels showed the wreckage of a motorbike, its mangled parts scattered on the asphalt. Fruit and vegetables splattered with blood were spread about the area.
Police officers cordoned off the area after the bombing, and the ensuing panic and chaos caused a traffic jam in parts of the city.
lunes, 14 de enero de 2008
RIFA IPHONE!
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Bombings in Pakistan
Pakistan is a beautiful country. It is situated between India and the Emirate of Afghanistan, and has problems because of that. The Taliban, many years ago, were paid by U.S.A. in order that they expulsed and killed the Soviets. Some years after, they were invaded in the country they wanted to take hold of (Afghanistan) by U.S.A.
Many got kille
d, but also a big number of them, along with thousands of Afghanis, fled to Pakistan. Now, those Taliban, along with other Islamic radicals, are trying to make Pakistan an Islamic republic and to impose a strict Shariah. In many places of Pakistan, people are poor and can’t afford a good school, and are abused by the Landlords and its people, for example, they rob villagers and rape their women and daughters, and beat and humiliate (and often kill) their children if they refuse to give a truck or a piece of land. What Taliban are doing is that they go with those families and offer them protection, but they ask the children to go with them. They also install Madrassas, which are Islamic schools, where they give them 3 meals a-day and a place to sleep for free; but in Madrassas they teach children radicalism and make them fanatics, teach them to use guns, to kill, and many bad things. People don’t like this, but they have no other option.
Bombings have been increasing because of that; each day they try to make an Islamic republic more and more.
Many got kille
d, but also a big number of them, along with thousands of Afghanis, fled to Pakistan. Now, those Taliban, along with other Islamic radicals, are trying to make Pakistan an Islamic republic and to impose a strict Shariah. In many places of Pakistan, people are poor and can’t afford a good school, and are abused by the Landlords and its people, for example, they rob villagers and rape their women and daughters, and beat and humiliate (and often kill) their children if they refuse to give a truck or a piece of land. What Taliban are doing is that they go with those families and offer them protection, but they ask the children to go with them. They also install Madrassas, which are Islamic schools, where they give them 3 meals a-day and a place to sleep for free; but in Madrassas they teach children radicalism and make them fanatics, teach them to use guns, to kill, and many bad things. People don’t like this, but they have no other option.Bombings have been increasing because of that; each day they try to make an Islamic republic more and more.
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