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  • September 2008
    • Young Burmese Monks Ready to Take Up Arms

      Young Burmese Monks Ready to Take Up Arms

      (Newser) - After seeing nonviolent protesters killed or detained in last year’s protests against the ruling junta, younger segments of Burma’s Buddhist monks are becoming more radical, embracing armed resistance and overt dissent, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "We need weapons,” one young monk said. “That is the only way we can bring down this regime." More »

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      Burma   Myanmar   junta   Buddhist monks   political activism   Buddhism   monks   revolution   repression

  • December 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
    • Russian Kids Spend Summer Goose-stepping

      Russian Kids Spend Summer Goose-stepping

      (Newser) - In a Soviet Era throwback, a new Russian youth group is said to be providing more than fun and games in its summer camp, the Weekly Standard r eports. Nashi, Russian for “Ours,” is said to be an elite indoctrination program; while Russian officials liken it to the Boy Scouts, Nashi also inspires comparisons to Hitler’s Jugend youth movement. More »

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      Russia   Georgia   Vladimir Putin   Ukraine   Adolf Hitler   Viktor Yushchenko   Third Reich   revolution   Nashi

  • April 2007

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