[Buddha-l] Right Speech?

[Curt Steinmetz]

On 8/8/12 4:13 PM, Jo wrote:
> Hi Curt,
> Please post the name of the "once prominent organization of
> dissidents-in-exile".
> I follow Burma situations, but have no idea which organization you refer to
> here.
> Thanks
> Joanna

Hi Joanna,

This was an intentional oversight on my part, to draw attention to the 
sloppy nature of the "evidence" presented by Fisher & Co. in support of 
their smears against SE Asian Buddhists.

But having made the point, here is the information (which is quite 
possibly unknown to Fisher and the signers of the open letter - I 
wouldn't be surprised):

The article is titled "Buddhist Monks Call For Muslim Community To Be 
Shunned". This article appeared in the Juy 25 edition of "The 
Independent". The author is Hanna Hindstrom, an London born activist 
with the Oslo based "Democratic Voice of Burma". If you google 
"democratic voice of burma financial scandal" you will find that various 
high ranking officials resigned from DVB last year due to a financial 
scandal. If one does a little more snooping around one find other 
articles with titles such as "Changes in Myanmar have exiles abroad 
facing obsolescence", by Thomas Fuller of the New York Times News 
Service, in which Fuller writes, "The dissident business may soon be out 
of business: money is drying up, an diplomats would now rather fly to 
Myanmar than lunch with exiled dissidents...." [Taipei Times, Feb. 26, 2012]

Curt
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> The article on Burma was written by a non-Burmese professional political
> activist who belongs to a once prominent organization of dissidents-in-exile
> that is now struggling to keep itself relevant and to keep the money coming
> in (and that recently went through a major financial scandal involving
> resignations at the highest level of the organization.)
>
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