Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Myanmar bans Time magazine for story about monk; CMH Global Arts After School summer programming; War Deaths in Syria Said to Top 100,000; A Grim Anniversary in Sudan.
Myanmar bans Time magazine for story about monk – June 25, 2013
Myanmar’s government has banned this week’s issue of Time magazine because of a cover story about a Buddhist monk accused of fueling recent religious violence. State television announced Tuesday that the decision was made to prevent further racial or religious rioting. It said a special committee led by the home minister had issued an order banning the magazine as well as copies made of it. The magazine’s cover carries a photo of a Buddhist monk, Wirathu, with the words “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Wirathu is a leader of a radical movement of monks that preaches that the country’s small Muslim minority threatens racial purity and national security. Nearly 250 people have died and tens of thousands, mostly Muslims, have fled their homes in religious violence in the past year…
CMH Global Arts After School summer programming – June 25, 2013
CMH Global Arts After School is a program for middle and high school students designed to foster empathy and cultural understanding through a unique curriculum that integrates hands-on arts learning with social skills training and cultural awareness. CMH Global Arts After School summer programming started today at the Watts/Willowbrook Boys & Girls Club with our photography class. Students learned about photography techniques like “framing your images” and “portraiture” and also explored the geography Haiti. More to come as summer classes are underway! Fin arts classes are on Thursdays this summer so plenty of fun projects are in store!
War Deaths in Syria Said to Top 100,000 – June 26, 2013
An opposition monitoring group that has tracked Syria’s widening civil war said Wednesday that more than 100,000 people had died in the 27-month-old conflict, with pro-government forces taking far more casualties than rebels seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, while civilians accounted for more than one-third of the overall fatalities, the biggest single category. An opposition monitoring group that has tracked Syria’s widening civil war said Wednesday that more than 100,000 people had died in the 27-month-old conflict, with pro-government forces taking far more casualties than rebels seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, while civilians accounted for more than one-third of the overall fatalities, the biggest single category…
A Grim Anniversary in Sudan – June 27, 2013
“The students go to class, and when they hear the Antonovs coming they run to hide in the caves.” This is how a teacher describes a typical school day for children in Acheron, a village in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan State. With the Nuba Mountains now entering a third year of genocidal jihad waged by the Sudanese National Congress Party (NCP) government in Khartoum, the young teacher says “war bombardment has become normal.” “Class” is gathering in the open air. School buildings have gone the same way as those in the first genocide in the 1990s: bombed to smithereens by Khartoum. But the desire to learn remains alive, and so two volunteer teachers – barely out of secondary school themselves – are risking their own lives to ensure that Nuba children receive an education…
