“Flip-Flopping and Milestones” – This Week’s Post is Up at Shambhala Sun Space!
My latest “On the Buddhism Beat” post is now online over at Shambhala Sun Space. As I note in the post, the biggest news developments in the past couple of weeks (I didn’t do a post last week) revolved around “flip-flopping and anniversaries.” Of special note too are developments in the case of imprisoned Burmese-American Kyaw Zaw Lwin:
Kyaw Zaw Lwin (who is also known as Nyi Nyi Aung), the Burmese-American imprisoned by the junta back in September, has been placed in solitary confinement after undergoing a twelve-day hunger strike. This is especially distressing because he is reported to be in ill health following his protest. He has been accused of trying to stir further unrest in the country.
The Washington Post reports on the lack of U.S. response to his imprisonment, noting that the situation “appears to be politically inconvenient for both the United States and the Burmese military dictatorship at a moment when the two countries have taken tentative steps toward engagement after years of stormy antagonism.”
That said, fifty-three U.S. Congressmen wrote a letter this week calling for his release.
Read the rest here.
