Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices in the country's state-owned newspapers cutting ties with sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and grandchildren who have publicly opposed the ruling military junta.
BANGKOK, Oct 9 (The Straits Times/ANN): Khayan is a largely rural township in Myanmar near Yangon city. Like much of the rest of the country, it is on an edge. An army captain was killed there in August in a drive-by shooting. Similarly gunned down was a military-appointed village administrator who once ran for election as a member of the military proxy, Union Solidarity and