AFP:                                       Canada calls Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest 'vindictive'

Globe and Mail:               Aung San Suu Kyi still matters to Burmese

National Post:                  Burma's junta just doesn't care

Statement #1:                   Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada

Statement#2:                    Statement by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff

Statement#3:                    Statement by PFOB and CFOB on Suu Kyi's Sentence

 

Globe and Mail:               Undercover journalism in Burma – true heroism in action

Globe and Mail:               Heartbreaking covert footage skillfully exposes Myanmar's thugocracy

 Toronto Star:                    Burma VJ: Reporting: Freedom fighters

CBC News:                          Burma VJ film shows courage in action

CFOB update:                    Burma VJ Screenings across Canada

               

Globe and Mail:               Ministers step in to halt Myanmar deportation  

Vancouver Sun:                Child soldier got reprieve, but others still being deported to Myanmar

Prince Albert Daily:         One step for a man, a giant leap for freedom

Canada.com:                    Feds intervene to quash deserter's deportation to Myanmar

Star Phonix:                      Saskatoon man's deportation order quashed

CBC News:                          Former child soldier can stay in Canada

Canadian Press:               Canadian gov't halts deportation order of former child soldier from Burma

Canwest News:                 Cross-Canada rallies planned for man facing deportation to Myanmar

Epoch Time:                   Former Child Soldier Granted Stay of Deportation

Newstalk650:                    Former Child Soldier Can Stay in Saskatoon

Star Phonix:                      Saskatoon man won't be deported to Burma: Gov't

Star Phonix:                       Judge denies bid to stay in Canada

Star Phonix:                      Former child soldier's request to delay deportation denied

Star Phonix:                      Ex-child soldier loses fight against deportation to Myanmar

Star Phonix:                      Ex-child soldier loses fight against deportation to Myanmar

Canwest News:                 Former child soldier fights deportation

CBC News:                          Former child soldier fights to stay in Saskatoon

 

Canwest News:                 ‘Girl from the jungle’ enlightens world

North Shore News:          N. Shore churches aid Karen refugees

Stratford Gazette:           Stratford helping internationally

The Picket and Time:      Shopping for a good cause

 

Canada calls Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest 'vindictive'

(AFP) – Aug 11, 2009

OTTAWA — Canada's prime minister Tuesday "strongly condemned" a further 18-months of house arrest handed to Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, saying it is "unwarranted, unjustified, and vindictive." More

 

Aung San Suu Kyi still matters to Burmese

By Tin Maung Htoo and Kevin McLeod| Special to Globe and Mail| Aug. 11, 2009

The Burmese military regime's latest attempt to permanently remove opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene on the most ridiculous of pretexts is an indication of the threat she still poses to the corrupt and violent military junta. She is well known in the West, but it is her popularity among fellow Burmese that poses the biggest risk to the junta, which added 18 months to her house arrest, effectively barring her from campaigning in next year's national election. More

 

Burma's junta just doesn't care

By Jonathon Narvey| The National Post| August 12, 2009

You don’t have to be an American president to blast rogue regimes with both barrels (well, rhetorically, anyway). Our PM has some harsh words for Burma’s generals. The junta may not listen, but this is what Canadians need to hear: More

 

Statement by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff

Ottawa, 11 August 2009 - Burma’s military junta has further underscored their illegitimacy through the show trial and sham verdict extending the unjust detention of Aung San Suu Kyi. More

 

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada

Ottawa, 11 August 2009, - Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement on the Burmese regime’s decision to sentence Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months house arrest:  More

 

PFOB and CFOB condemn sentence of Suu Kyi, calling for a stronger action
Ottawa, August 11, 2009 - Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB) and Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) strongly condemn the new sentence to Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. More

 

Undercover journalism in Burma – true heroism in action

By R.M. Vaughan| Globe and Mail| Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

Contrasting with other summer film fare: the anatomy of dissent, as real as it gets

Summer is hero season at the movies. Every actor with a good agent is busy battling dinosaurs, mutants that fly, robot trucks, malevolent priests, malevolent wizards (make your own agnostic joke) or Sandra Bullock.  More

 

Heartbreaking covert footage skillfully exposes Myanmar's thugocracy

By Michael Posner| Globe and Mail| Friday, Aug. 07, 2009

Few documentary films are as timely as Burma VJ . Told almost entirely in the language of handheld video and cellphone cameras, it's the story of the 2007 monk- and student-led protests against one of the world's greatest thugocracies, the military junta that runs Burma. More

 

Burma VJ: Reporting: Freedom fighters

By Peter Howell| Toronto Star| Aug 07, 2009

We are so immersed in media in the West, and confident of our right to free speech, that we often forget that elsewhere in the world people are struggling behind walls of ignorance and repression. More

 

Burma VJ film shows courage in action

By CBC News | Friday, August 7, 2009

For the young video journalists portrayed in the documentary Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country, getting news out to the world is more important than their personal safety. More

 

CFOB update on Burma VJ screenings

By Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB)| Aug. 20, 2009

The screening of ‘Burma VJ: reporting from a closed country,’ was officially launched in Canada on Aug. 7, 2009 on the occasion of 21^st Anniversary of 8888 democracy uprising in Burma. The screenings took place simultaneously at Mayfair Cinema in Ottawa from Aug.7 to 13 and the Royal Theatre in Toronto from Aug. 7 to 11. The private screenings were also held at Whitehorse, Yukon on Aug. 11 and at YWCA Hotel in Vancouver, BC on Aug. 15. More

 

Ministers step in to halt Myanmar deportation

By Campbell Clark |The Globe and Mail| Aug. 19, 2009

Ottawa — Van Loan, Kenney intervene to protect 'one of the lucky few who have managed to escape the nightmare that is Burma.' Canada's official position is that Myanmar is run by an "odious regime." But two cabinet ministers had to intervene at the 11th hour to stop a failed refugee claimant from being shipped back there. More

 

Child soldier got reprieve, but others still being deported to Myanmar

By Jason Warick | Vancouver Sun/ Saskatoon Star Phoenix| August 18, 2009

SASKATOON — A former child soldier escaped deportation from Saskatchewan to Myanmar over the weekend due to the last-minute intervention of a pair of federal government ministers — but more than a dozen others facing the same fate have not been so fortunate. More

 

One step for a man, a giant leap for freedom

By ANGELA HI | Prince Albert Daily Herald| Aug. 18, 2009  

Today Nay Myo Hein, a Burmese refugee living in Saskatoon, was supposed to be deported to his homeland of Burma. Instead he finds himself with temporary immigrant status and a new lease on life.
The federal government stayed his deportation after his application to the federal Immigration and Refugee Board for refugee status was rejected. More

Feds intervene to quash deserter's deportation to Myanmar

By Jason Warick | Canada.com/ StarPhoenix | August 17, 2009

SASKATOON — Nay Myo Hein and his common-law wife couldn't sleep Friday night. The Saskatoon man was scheduled for deportation to his native Myanmar, also known as Burma, this week.

Supporters believed that as an army military deserter in a nation run by a notorious military regime, he faced prison, torture and possible execution. But Saturday morning, everything changed. More

Saskatoon man's deportation order quashed

By Jason Warick | Saskatchewan News Network| August 17, 2009

Nay Myo Hein and his common-law wife sat awake Friday night in their Saskatoon bungalow.

Hein's final legal appeal of his deportation to his native Myanmar, also known as Burma, had been exhausted and he was scheduled to be deported this week. "I love you," said his wife, Haymar Zin.

Hein told Zin he loved her, too, but he also had another message for her. More

 

Former child soldier can stay in Canada

CBC News| Sunday, August 16, 2009

A 25-year-old man facing deportation to Burma has won ministerial permission to remain in Saskatoon. Nay Myo Hein, a former child soldier, had been ordered to return to Burma. On Friday, Hein had exhausted all formal procedures to avoid deportation, which was set to take place on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Instead, on Saturday, two federal ministers took direct action on the man's case. More

 

Canadian gov't halts deportation order of former child soldier from Burma

Canadian Press (CP) | August 15, 2009

OTTAWA — The federal government has stayed the deportation of a Burmese refugee who fled his country because he was forced into the military when he was a child. The Canadian Friends of Burma says Nay Myo Hein was supposed to be deported to his homeland on Tuesday after his application to the federal Immigration and Refugee Board for refugee status was rejected. More

 

Cross-Canada rallies planned for man facing deportation to Myanmar

Canwest News Service| August 15, 2009

Rallies are planned in cities across Canada Saturday to support a Saskatoon man who faces deportation within days to his native Myanmar. Nay Myo Hein, who has one last hope to remain in Canada,: Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan. Hein's legal options were exhausted Friday when a Federal Court judge rejected his "stay of removal" application. More

 

Former child soldier fights deportation

 Canwest News Services| August 14, 2009

A former Burmese child soldier now living in Saskatoon has one final hearing this morning before a federal court judge in his fight against deportation, say advocates. More

 

Former Child Soldier Granted Stay of Deportation

By Joan Delaney| Epoch Times Staff| Aug 15, 2009

Burmese refugee Nay Myo Hein received a welcome reprieve on Saturday. The former child soldier’s deportation planned for Tuesday was halted following the intervention of Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan. More

 

Former Child Soldier Can Stay in Saskatoon

Stay of Deportation granted at last minute

By Joe Hoover| newstalk650| August 16, 2009

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has also extended temporary Canadian residency to Hein - opening the door for him to apply for full residency, then citizenship. More

 

Saskatoon man won't be deported to Burma: Gov't

 By Jason Warick| The Star Phoenix| August 16, 2009

A Saskatoon man will not be deported to his native Burma, after two federal government ministers intervened directly in the case. More

 

Judge denies bid to stay in Canada

By Jason Warick| Saskatchewan News Network| August 15, 2009

Rallies are planned in cities across Canada this afternoon to support a Saskatoon man who faces deportation next week to his native Myanmar. More

               

Former child soldier's request to delay deportation denied

By Jason Warick| The Star Phoenix| August 14, 2009

A former Burmese child soldier now living in Saskatoon has had his request to delay deportation refused by a Federal court judge. Nay Myo Hein is now out of legal options, said his Saskatoon lawyer Chris Veeman. More

 

Ex-child soldier loses fight against deportation to Myanmar

By Jason Warick| Saskatoon Star Phoenix| August 14, 2009

SASKATOON — A former child soldier from Myanmar now living in Saskatoon has lost a last-ditch legal attempt to delay deportation back to his homeland, where he says he faces imprisonment and torture at the hands of the military dictatorship. More

 

Man fights deportation to Myanmar

Former child soldier faces punishment: lawyer

By Jason Warick| Saskatchewan News Network| August 14, 2009

A former Burmese child soldier now living in Saskatoon has one final hearing this morning before a Federal Court judge in his fight against deportation, say advocates. More

 

Former child soldier fights to stay in Saskatoon

CBC News| August 13, 2009

A 25-year-old man in Saskatoon is hoping to win a stay of deportation, arguing his life would be in danger if he returned to Burma where he was forced to become a child soldier 13 years ago.

Nay Myo Hein told CBC News on Thursday he is worried about what the military government in Burma would do to him as an army deserter. More

 

‘Girl from the jungle’ enlightens world

LITTLE DAUGHTER: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

Canwest News Service |Saturday, August 1st, 2009

When Zoya Phan was a small child, her older brother would wake her in the middle of the night and strap her to his back. Her brother — still a child himself — needed the extra weight to operate the wooden beam the family used to pound rice in a huge mortar to remove the husks. He would sing to her as he pounded, until she fell back asleep. More

 

N. Shore churches aid Karen refugees

Families given homes, help with integration

Benjamin Alldritt| North Shore News| Wednesday, August 12, 2009

THANKS to the efforts of a dozen North Shore volunteers, six people have been plucked from the squalor of a Burmese refugee camp and resettled in Metro Vancouver. More

 

Stratford helping internationally

By Barb and Ross Penton| Stratford Gazette| Aug. 6, 2009

Stratford once again can help those underprivileged in a far off land, namely Burma. One of our neighbours, Pam Rogers, 10 years ago co-founded an organization, DARE Network, on the Thai/Burma Border. More

 

Shopping for a good cause

By COURTNEY WHALEN| THE PACKET AND TIMES| Aug. 15, 2009

Washago resident Cathy Downham has discovered a way to shop 'til she drops without adding any more items to her own home. Downham who, along with husband David, founded the not-for-profit aid agency Project Umbrella Burma (PUB) in 2003, shops knowing it will help the organization and its projects. More