What was the Saffron Revolution of 2007?

Bright on Buddhism - Episode 123 - What was the Saffron Revolution of 2007? What were the circumstances that caused it? What is its legacy?

Resources:

• The Group Protesting the Murder of Mr. Nagai by the Army of Myanmar

• Burma-Myanmar Genocide 2007, aggregating news about current ongoing events, providing translations into English from Burmese blogs from within the country

• Burma News International

• Burma Archive[usurped]: an aggregation effort by SOAS academics, UK.

• Mae Tao Clinic (Dr Cynthia's Clinic) The Mae Tao Clinic provides medical care in a Burmese refuge camp across the border in Thailand to 150,000 refugees, it trains medics to return to Burma to provide health care and it treats injured or sick Burmese refugees searching for health care.

• Myanmar and the World from On Point

• U.S. Campaign for Burma Archived 29 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine

• Myanmar, Minorities, and the Military[usurped] David I. Steinberg, Foreign Policy in Focus, 10 October 2007

• MyanmaThadin Myanmar (Burma) News & Community Hub

• In pictures: Burma protests (BBC)

• Free Burma Australian Campaign Archived 11 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine Pictures and news from Protests in Australia.

• Protests, 26 September (video)[usurped] (WMV) Mizzima News

• Aljazeera: Deserters leave Myanmar army (video) on YouTube

• Aljazeera: On the ground in Yangon, 28 September (video) on YouTube

• FREE BURMA – International Bloggers' Day 4–10–07 (video) on YouTube

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