Can't quite believe I've not blogged about the situation in Burma yet but then, I didn't blog about much at all last month.

Anyway, as one of the irrepressible.info fragments on my site points out, 'a military machine of 500,000 soldiers denies a whole nation its most basic rights'. As anyone who's watched the news or read a paper (notably The Independent who I think were the first UK paper to pick up the reports that were getting out of the country) recently knows, this has reached appalling new levels in the last week or so and Buddhist monks are now being hauled off to jails in the north of the country.

The Burma Campaign campaigns for human rights and democracy in Burma - get clued up and, if you can get to London or Edinburgh, demonstrate. The Chinese embassy is being targeted as the largest outside investors and supporters of the junta that controls Burma but other nations also have an interest, including India and South Korea.