Burmese humour -- Cartoons

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Description: "Myanmar Online Cartoon Journal"
Source/publisher: 969toons.com
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-30
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Burmese (a little English)
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Description: High quality, hard-hitting. See also the cartoons on "The Irrawaddy"
Creator/author: Harn Lay
Source/publisher: Shanland
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-15
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Harn Lay, The Irrawaddy?s cartoonist and illustrator, has received a grant from Human Rights Watch in recognition of his satirical cartoons targeting the Burmese military regime.
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 5
2010-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-08-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Laughter is a sharp weapon in the hands of Burma?s regime critics... "BURMA is under siege and the crackdown on anti-regime monks and activists has intensified, continuing day and night. The bloodshed in Burma in September 2007 and the regime?s inadequate, heartless response to the cyclone the following May ignited worldwide anger, directed at regime leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe. Yet through it all, the callous, stubborn general remained a figure of fun, arousing mirth as well as outrage..."
Creator/author: Yeni
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 11
2008-11-00
Date of entry/update: 2008-11-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "During the popular struggle against the British and civil war, two cartoonists entertained and provoked Burmese audiences with their fiesty sketches... A newspaper without a cartoon is like curry without salt — U Hein Sunn, prominent Burmese cartoonist..."
Creator/author: Aung Zaw
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 7
2003-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-11-06
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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