Burma - Politics and government

Date: 23 Jan 2009

From: New New Zealanders oral history project

By: McLeod, Marion, active 1950-2000; John, Nikola, 1946-

Reference: OHInt-1039-08

Description: Interviewer(s) - Marion McLeod Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) OHA-7660. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: 12 May 2008

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-049

Description: Shows a large elephant representing the Burmese Regime blocking the road for a UN relief team. Refers to Cyclone Nargis in which over 22,000 people died in Burma. The military junta resisted foreign aid. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - MONDAY CARTOON 12 May A? cartoon Pls correct & send to GNZHARTPIX 186mm x 133 Ta [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pens on paper, 285mm x 380mm

Date: 2008

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0007066

Description: Shows General Shwe demanding that every protester be arrested and beaten. A soldier nearby tells him that there are about 50 million protesters. Refers to General Shwe, leader of the military junta which governs Burma (Myanmar). He was using his soldiers to violently contain popular protests in the streets. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013221

Description: Shows a large elephant representing the Burmese Regime blocking the road for a UN relief team. Refers to Cyclone Nargis in which over 22,000 people died in Burma. The military junta resisted foreign aid. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0006447

Description: Shows a scene in a suburban kitchen. A man stands at the sink doing the dishes while a small boy weeps. The child's mother tells her husband that he is upset because the cat (a malevolent-looking Burmese) won't let him near her kittens. The domestic scene illustrates the behaviour of the Myanmar military junta which is reluctant to allow foreign aid into the country to assist in rescue efforts after the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis on May 3, 2008. There is a play on the term 'Burmese cat' and 'Burma' which is the name Myanmar was known by before the military takeover. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0006550

Description: Shows a small boy floating on a wooden raft in a stream in the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar. Alongside the raft float the corpse of a man and an elephant and the stream emits gas because of the decomposing bodies in it. Alonside the stream is a devastated landscape. Above hovers a helicopter from which a voice is heard rationalising that if supplies are delayed there will be less need for them. Refers to the catastrophic effects of Cyclone Nargis which struck on May 2, 2008 and the Myanmar military junta's resistance to international aid and their insistance but failure to manage themselves. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0006424

Description: Shows a huge military guard with 'Myanmar' on his pocket and a skull on the front of his cap. He indicates the vultures circling above him and says that as we can see they are now permitting flights into the country. Refers to the devastating cyclone that hit Burma early May which caused possibly a hundred thousand deaths, many of which might have been prevented if the military government had accepted offers of foreign help sooner. The vultures are present because of the number of dead bodies. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0004067

Description: Shows a Buddhist monk in Myanmar being tortured on a stretching machine by two soldiers. A member of the Chinese military tells them that it wasn't intended that they use that kind of restraint and one of the soldiers replies that they are only following China's example. Refers to attempts by the military in Myanmar to suppress the large protests led by pro-democracy Buddhist monks against the ruling military regime and to Myanmar's dependency on China who was the only country to stand by China after the military takeover in 1988. Burma gets cheap military requirements from China while China depends economically and strategically on Burma. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0006446

Description: Shows a military man festooned with medals (it may be General Than Shwe). He stands against a background of cyclone wreckage and smilingly shows a young couple, each of whom holds a baby, a medal for protecting them against foreign imperialist humbug disguised as well-meaning aid. Refers to the death and devastation wreaked by Cyclone Nargis and the reluctance by the military regime to accept foreign aid. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0007065

Description: Shows a Burmese soldier shoving a gun up the nose of a monk who in turn holds a flower to the nose of the soldier. In late September 2007 the military junta in Burma violently suppressed street protests by buddhist monks and others who appeared to be quite peaceful. Several were killed. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

Reference: DCDL-0004076

Description: A huge tank labelled 'Junta of Myanmar' drives along leaving dead Buddhist monks in its wake. The driver, probably military dictator, Than Shwe, shouts that if the economy doesn't improve it should be shot as well. Refers to the military crackdown against protesters who were demonstrating against the Myanmar junta regime by holding peaceful street marches. The protest was led by Buddhist monks. Refers also to the failing economy in Burma. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0004061

Description: Fiji coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama sits looking very pleased at his desk listening to a radio broadcast about the 45 year rule of the military in Myanmar. Refers to the uprising led by Buddist monks in Burma (Myanmar) against the military regime. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0006439

Description: Shows General Than Shwe of Myanmar (Burma) at his desk. An official reports that desperately needed food and medicine is starting to clog the borders. All the general is worried about is whether guns, gold taps and brandy can still get through. Refers to the catastrophic damage done by Cyclone Nargis on May 3, 2008. Over 22,000 people have died and many others have lost their homes and have nothing. The military junta is disorganised and apparently uncaring and has resisted foreign aid. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0006450

Description: Shows a soldier from the Myanmar military junta standing outside a huge barred gate to the country of Myanmar. A large notice is pinned to the gate saying 'Help wanted, PS by invitation only'. Refers to the resistance by the Myanmar military junta to foreign aid offered to assist in the rescue effort of thousands of people in the aftermath of the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis on May 3, 2008. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0012016

Description: Shows Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and leader of the opposition National League for Democracy party (NLD). She is locked inside a glass cage filled with water. On the lock are the words '18 more months'. To the right Prime Minister Than Shwe, grins as he holds the key to the lock and says 'So close, and yet so far...' On the wall is a clock showing that the 'Myanmar election' is to be held soon. Suu Kyi has spent more than 11 of the past 19 years in some form of detention under Burma's military regime and has just been sentenced to 18 months longer of house arrest after a US national was arrested for swimming across a lake and breaking into her compound; this provided the regime with an excuse to charge her with breaching the conditions of her detention, although the man had apparently not been invited to visit. Critics say the arrest and continued detention were designed to keep her away from the public eye until elections scheduled to take place in 2010. For the Burmese people, Ms Suu Kyi, 64, represents their best and perhaps sole hope that one day there will be an end to the country's military repression. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0016125

Description: The cartoon shows Than Shwe, the leader of the military junta that rules Myanmar, rearing back in horror as he pulls the plug from the bath only to see the small figure of 'Aung San Suu Kyi, the spider in the blood bath'. Refers to the release from seven years of house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader. Aung San Suu Kyi, who heads the country's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), later appeared at the gate of her compound, the crowd chanted, cheered and sang the national anthem. American President Obama says "Whether Aung San Suu Kyi is living in the prison of her house, or the prison of her country, does not change the fact that she, and the political opposition she represents, has been systematically silenced, incarcerated, and deprived of any opportunity to engage in political processes that could change Burma." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0004066

Description: As a 'Burmese thug' or soldier beats two Burmese Buddist monks he is struck with the thought that their red robes prevents him from being able to enjoy the bloodshed he is causing. Refers to military attempts to quash demonstrations against the Myanmar military regime led by Buddhist monks in September and October 2007. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0020730

Description: Shows leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, smiling as she advises a huge tiger representing the 'generals' to roll over and play dead. Context: On April 1 2012 Aung San Suu Kyi won 43 of the 45 seats available for vote and although this was only a fraction of the total it was a promising sign of reform in Myanmar. Myanmar has been subject to military rule since 1962. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).