Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
December 5, 2008

BBC: Khmer Trial Clears Final Hurdle

The BBC reports that Cambodian judges have ruled that a former Khmer Rouge prison chief “Comrade Duch” will at long last stand trial for torture and pre-meditated murder.

December 5, 2008

A Message of Peace in Mumbai

This from the Dayton International Peace Museum: Four hundred students from St. Gregorios High School, Chembur, Mumbai, participated in a peace march days after the attacks in the South Asian city. Video of the even is below.

December 5, 2008

Tibet News (12.5.08)

Here a couple of Tibet-related headlines for today:

  • The Associated Press reports that Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou has nixed plans for a visit to his country by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
  • Meanwhile, in Poland, His Holiness says, “When China becomes more democratic, with freedom of speech, with rule of law and particularly with freedom of the press … once China becomes an open, modern society, then the Tibet issue, I think within a few days, can be solved.”
  • The Agence France-Presse reports on the new Sino-Franco tensions over President Sarkozy’s first meeting with His Holiness.

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