Taiwan succeeded, China under Mao Zedong didn't.

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We're advising the Northern Cypriots on how to reunify their island.

it can wait. that bandit in the forest in burma.

He was imprisoned for 7 years

He started to disseminate information to the world about where and how many political prisoners in Burma were.

Not in Burma, and not in time.

In Burma there are more landmines than anywhere in the world.

However, bloggers have recorded and broadcast what they have witnessed putting a global spotlight on Burma and this has raised awareness about the human rights abuses that are taking place.

Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been

A long time ago, I was in burma and my friends and I were working for the local government.

Now, in Burma, everything is restricted especially internet, email and online stuff.

When we say jewels, we mean Indian diamonds, Burmese rubies and Colombian emeralds the size of your fist.

Over the past year, we have seen peaceful transitions of power in Malawi and Senegal, and a new President in Somalia.

So they are posting stories, images, whatever they can get.

Blogs and cheap digital recording devices were seen as integral to the so called Saffron Revolution that took place in Burma.

The main thing it did is inspire me to go out with my camera and to tell other people's stories.

I said, look here mate, that's what you get when you're trespassing into fucking Burma.

What this means is it's no longer good enough to say that international relations, or global affairs, or chaos in Somalia, or what's going on in Burma is none of your business, and that you can leave it to governments to get on with.

In fact, if you see the map, the range of their original habitat was all the way from the Indus in Pakistan to the Irrawaddy in Burma.

But under repressive regimes successful online info activism does not always easily translate into offline impacts.

Take the problems of human rights and the problems of security in so many countries around the world.

Now on the surface, this makes a lot of sense, and in 2010, we responded to the tsunami in Chile, the floods in Pakistan, we sent training teams to the Thai Burma border.

Because people were able to take mobile phone photographs of what was happening at the polling stations, it was impossible for that Premier to fix that election in the way that he wanted to do.

He then found Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which is now a world famous organization, and helped political prisoners in Burma.