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Burma VJ attempts to create a recipe for revolution

August 27, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Burma is sometimes a forgotten country. Officially called Myanmar by the country’s military junta, in late 2007, more than 100,000 people took to the streets of Rangoon in protest of the ruling regime. Called the “Saffron Revolution” because of the color of the robes donned by the monks who initiated the stand, the protest was quickly suppressed with brute force.

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2009, Burma, DVB, Irfan Shariff, Myanmar, Northwest Asian Weekly, Northwest Film Forum, Norway, Saffron Revolution, Thailand, vol 28 no 36 | August 29 - September 4

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