ENGLAND RIOTS

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  fatty

  August 11, 2011 at 4:05 pm

  ကျနော်တို့ဆီက ကြည့်လို့မရတဲ့ပုံတွေ သတင်းတွေ တကူးတက တင်ပေးတာ ကျေးဇူး အထူးတင်ပါတယ်။
  အထူးသဖြင့်တော့ အင်မတန်ကြည်လင်ပြတ်သားပြီး တန်ဖိုးရှိတဲ့ပုံတွေကိုအားရလှပါတယ်။

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    Kyaemon

    August 18, 2011 at 1:18 am

    Appreciate your kind comments.

    It’s a great pleasure.

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  Cupcake

  August 12, 2011 at 4:42 am

  England will go down in the drain follow by U.S. Osama Bin Laden is dead but he is winning the war. Why? Well, for one thing, Bin Laden “was all about the money” and wanted “to bankrupt the Western world” and the United States.

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  MaMa

  August 12, 2011 at 8:15 am

  နိုင်ငံကြီးသားဆိုပြီး အော်နေတဲ့လူတွေလည်းးးးးးးးးးးးး
  အင်းးးးးးးးးးး သူလည်းလေ လောကီသားပေမို့……………….

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  Kyaemon

  August 12, 2011 at 10:07 am

  Tottenham, London Riots coverage | BBC News | 7th August 2011 | HQ

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qEjDjtujaQ&feature=related

  Police are on the streets of Tottenham, north London, where overnight riots saw petrol bombs thrown at officers and patrol cars and buildings set alight.

  Eight injured police officers were taken in hospital, at least one of them with head injuries.

  The unrest began after a protest over the fatal shooting by police of 29-year-old Mark Duggan on Thursday.

  About 300 people gathered outside the police station on the High Road after demonstrators demanded “justice”…

  BBC news interview with local resident on Tottenham Riots and looting aftermath!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-mfmDpSVY&feature=related

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  Myittha

  August 12, 2011 at 3:28 pm

  တရားနဲ့ဖြေ၊ တရားနဲ့ဖြေ။

  “ပီကင်းမြို့မှာငါးဆယ့်ငါးရက်” ဆိုတဲ့ရုပ်ရှင်ကားကို ကြည့်ဘူးကြမှာပေါ့နော်၊

  နိုင့်ထက်စီနင်း ဘိန်းစစ်ပွဲ တွေ အကြီအကျယ် ခင်းကျင်းခဲ့ကြတာလေ၊

  အင်ဂလိပ်ဦးစောင်တဲ့ ရှစ်နိင်ငံတို့က သူများနိုင်ငံရဲ့မြို့တော်ကို သွားပြီး လုယက်ဖျက်ဆီး၊ မီးရှို့ အနိုင်ကျင့် ဘိန်းအတင်းသွင်း ခဲ့ကြတာ၊

  လူညွှန့်တုံးအောင် သိန်းသန်းကုဋ္ဌေနဲ့ချီပြီး မတရား စစ်လျော်ကြေးငွေတွေကို ဓမြတိုက် တောင်းဆို ခဲ့ကြတာ၊

  အချက်အချာကျပြီး အရေးပါတဲ့ ဆိပ်ကမ်း မြိုစခန်းကြီးများ ကိုအတင်းတောင်းခံလုယူ ခဲ့ကြတာ၊

  ခုတော့ ဝတ်လည်ပြီ ဆိုရမလားပေါ့နော်။

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  Kyaemon

  August 12, 2011 at 11:06 pm

  Millwall vs Looters – London riots

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uWJc2BAWGCo

  Millwall defends there homes and business against looters.
  Enfield Road footage!

  Tottenham Riot 2011: BBC London News coverage

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAV1FisFIas&feature=related

  This piece first broadcast on 7 Aug 2011. Televised on UK’s regional television BBC1 London.

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  Kyaemon

  August 13, 2011 at 3:06 pm

  Birmingham Riots – Father of murdered Son shows Great Strength | HD BBC Interview

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=uBayP3QZJhc

  5,158

  Three muslim men mowed down by a rioter died from their injuries. The murderer was captured by the Police but nothing at this time could possibly console the families of the deceased.

  Tariq Jahan, the father of Haroon Jahan who was killed shows great strength in this interview and how his faith in Islam empowers him when dealing with the loss of his son.

  Two other men lost their lives.

  See article here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024375/BIRMINGHAM-RIOTS-Tariq-Jahan-…

  Grieving father’s voice of sanity: As ‘race murder’ of three young Asians sends riot city to boiling point, man who lost son calls for calm

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024375/BIRMINGHAM-RIOTS-Race-murder-victim-Haroon-Jahans-father-Tariq-calls-calm.html

  Birmingham Riot 2011: Murder investigation is on away

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9IZblRWDm4&feature=related

  This piece irst broadcast on 10 Aug 2011. Televised on UK’s satelitte television Sky News.

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  Kyaemon

  August 14, 2011 at 12:38 am

  England riots: ‘The whites have become black’ says David Starkey

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14513517

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14513517

  12 August 2011 Last updated at 19:30 ET Help
  Historian David Starkey has told BBC’s Newsnight ”the whites have become black” in a discussion on the England riots with author and broadcaster Dreda Say Mitchell and the author of Chavs, Owen Jones.

  He also hit out at what he called the ”destructive, nihilistic gangster culture” which he said ”has become the fashion.”

  CLICK VIDEO FOR HISTORIAN DAVID STARKEY’S PROFOUND COMMENTS.

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  windtalker

  August 14, 2011 at 2:04 pm

  ပုံတွေ ထဲ မှာ ဖြစ်နေတာတွေ က တော်တော်ဆိုးတယ်နော်
  ကြားမိတာက
  ကျောင်းသား ကို ရဲ က မှား ပစ်လို ့ဖြစ်တာ ဆိုလား
  သို ့ပေသည့်
  ဒီလောက်ထိ အဓိကရုဏ်းဖြစ်တာ မျိုးကြ
  လွန်တာပေါ့နော်

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    Kyaemon

    August 14, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    @Windtalker
    You are right.

    As far as I understand. “Demonstration” “Hsan da pya” is a lawful right protected by almost all countries’ Constitutions. We might find it even in the SPDC Junta Constitution when it put it up for a referendum. (Whether a government itself obeys the Constitution is another story}

    For Demonstrators who are demonstrating peacefully, they have every right to voice their grievances to the authorities. Example: Myanmar monks during the Saffron Uprising. They are disciplined and acted within the laws.

    For Demonstrators who resorted to arson (burning), looting, killing, destroying property, even later on, they have lost their right to demonstrate. They have become common criminals, thieves, robbers, murderers.

    Example: Tibetan monks and Tibetan youths burning, destroying, killing innocent people, looting,… They lost their cause. No government, UK, US, EU, Russia, India, Thailand, China, … can allow this criminality to go on. These actions are not allowed in ANY country’s Constitution or laws.

    Same thing here. The UK riots are no exception. They have overstepped the legal boundaries.

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  Kyaemon

  August 15, 2011 at 2:31 pm

  Riots: David Cameron praises ‘speedy justice’ for looters

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14502581

  12 August 2011 Last updated at 12:43 ET Help
  Speaking on North West Tonight David Cameron made it clear he supported the idea of evicting looters from council housing and said he wanted more ‘speedy justice’.

  Speaking on North West Tonight Mr Cameron said: “We have got to find ways of enforcing responsibility.”

  Riots: David Cameron visits riot-hit Salford

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-14509763

  England riots: Weekend opening for riot courts

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14516840

  Courts in London and Manchester have opened over the weekend as the number of people charged for riot-related offences reaches more than 1,000.

  Those in court include a man charged with mugging a Malaysian student and a man with 21 previous court appearances.

  A total of 2,275 people have been arrested, and extra police numbers are being maintained over the weekend.

  US President Barack Obama has praised Britain’s police and politicians for “steadiness” while handling the riots.

  In a phone conversation with David Cameron, he said he shared the prime minister’s hope that the situation would remain calm.

  Meanwhile, a vigil has taken place in memory of a man attacked during rioting in Ealing on Monday night.

  Richard Bowes, 68, died in hospital just before midnight on Thursday and a post-mortem examination was held on Saturday giving the cause of death as a head injury.

  Scotland Yard said a man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder, rioting and carrying out three burglaries.

  About 100 people said prayers and lit candles at the vigil.

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  Kyaemon

  August 15, 2011 at 2:38 pm

  Man charged over riots mugging

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14516112

  13 August 2011 Last updated at 07:10 ET Help
  A man has been charged over the mugging of a Malaysian student after he was attacked by rioters in east London.

  The robbery of Asyraf Haziq, 20, after he was approached as he sat on the ground bleeding in Barking on Monday, was caught on camera.

  Police said Reece Donovan, of Cross Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, had been charged with robbery.

  Danny Savage reports from Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

  Can technology identify looters?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9561000/9561682.stm

  Police forces in England are using high-tech facial recognition software to identify those who took part in this week’s violent riots.
  Senior technology consultant at Sophos Graham Cluley explains the “danger” of using bad quality pictures.

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  Kyaemon

  August 15, 2011 at 2:50 pm

  Over 1,000 charged for riot-related offences in London

  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-08/15/c_131049401.htm

  Pictures inside.
  (Too late! Covering their heads in shame)

  News Analysis: Social media in focus after British riots

  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/15/c_131048782.htm

  News Analysis: Riots shake British society

  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/13/c_131046430.htm

  Pictures inside

  LONDON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Not long ago, London was all about the royal wedding, Harry Porter and the countdown to a grandeur Olympic Games next year.

  But the fairy tale broke last weekend, when Britons woke up to images of the streets of their capital littered with smashed glass, bricks and burnt cars, and of looted shops and blazing buildings.

  The riots which turned London and a number of other major British cities upside down began on Saturday, when a peaceful protest led by relatives of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, who was shot dead on Thursday last week in a police raid in Tottenham, north London, turned violent.

  The rioting rolled across the capital on Monday night after two days of violence, looting and clashes with the police with the speed and unpredictability of a firestorm. It was the worst rioting in living memory.

  By Tuesday, the rioting had spilled over to other cities including Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.

  For Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short of his vacation and returned to London early on Tuesday, the “sickening scenes” caused by the rioters were merely “criminality pure and simple.”

  But as the last of the broken glass is swept up, many have questioned if that is the whole story.

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  Kyaemon

  August 16, 2011 at 2:37 am

  Cameron vows to mend Britain’s “broken society”

  http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/16/c_131050955.htm

  LONDON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday promised to mend Britain’s “broken society” during his first set-piece speech since the riots which struck London and other English cities last week.

  Cameron vowed an “all-out war on gang culture” in the face of “a wake-up call” for the country after “social problems that have been festering for decades exploded in our face.”

  He also confirmed that his government would review the relating policies over the next few weeks in a bid to tackle the causes of the violence.

  Speaking in his parliamentary constituency of Witney, in Oxfordshire, Cameron admitted that the riots were caused by many social and cultural problems, not least the anti-social and irresponsible behavior of rioters.

  He placed the blame on “children without fathers; schools without discipline; reward without effort; crime without punishment; rights without responsibilities; communities without control.”

  Cameron also criticized the policies of past governments which had pulled back from tough policing and extended the already extensive welfare system.

  “Some of the worst aspects of human nature have been tolerated, indulged –sometimes even incentivized–by a state and its agencies that in parts have become literally demoralized,” the Prime Minister said.

  In the speech, Cameron put pro-family policies at the heart of future government domestic policies, saying “if we want to have any hope of mending our broken society, family and parenting is where we’ve got to start.”

  Arrests were continued in the wake of the riots with police saying there have now been nearly 3,000 arrests. Courts have been working around the clock to cope with the cases. About 1,300 people have been charged, of which 1,000 have stood in court.

  In Birmingham, where serious violence broke out last Monday and Tuesday, a peace rally was held Sunday. The rally was in memory of three Asian men who were killed when a car was driven across their bodies as they stood on the pavement protecting their community. Police have arrested and charged two men with murder in relation to the incident.

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  Kyaemon

  August 17, 2011 at 1:31 am

  Cameron’s London riots speech raises British ire

  Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech yesterday about the roots of last week’s riots had no shortage of critics.

  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2011/0816/Cameron-s-London-riots-speech-raises-British-ire

  A day after Prime Minister David Cameron called London rioters the product of dysfunctional families, the British press has seared Mr. Cameron for his speech on the riots, saying he is seeking political gain while not grasping the roots of last week’s violence.

  Prime Minister Cameron “denied that racial tensions, poverty, or his government’s controversial austerity cuts were to blame. He claimed there were around 120,000 problem families in Britain who had little respect for authority, singling out boys raised without a male role model as especially prone to ‘rage and anger’,” The Christian Science Monitor reported yesterday.

  “These riots were not about race: The perpetrators and the victims were white, black, and Asian. These riots were not about government cuts: They were directed at high street stores, not Parliament,” said the Conservative prime minister. “And these riots were not about poverty: That insults the millions of people who, whatever the hardship, would never dream of making others suffer like this.

  “No, this was about people showing indifference to right and wrong, people with a twisted moral code, people with a complete absence of self-restraint,” he said.

  In the past 24 hours, opinion writers have weighed in.

  The Telegraph’s editorial board wrote that while Cameron’s speech mentioned the areas that need to be addressed, it lacked specific recommendations and showed little understanding of what could be done to turn the “broken society” around.

  One headline said that the Prime Minister was laying out plans to “fix society”, and that rather captured the all-embracing nature of his ambition – as well as its scatter-gun impracticality. For example, Mr Cameron said that the problem of police officers being snowed under by bureaucracy “will be fixed by completely changing the way the police work”.

  …

  More immediately pressing, however, is the need to deal with the levels of criminality that we saw last week. Two thirds of those convicted of looting had previous convictions – testimony to the failings of the criminal justice system. The Prime Minister said that he was determined to “sort it out”, but did not explain how.

  Across the board, Cameron critics accused him of political expediency and of being unable to understand those not from his same socioeconomic background. Guardian social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh said he was “seeking opportunity in a moment of crisis.”

  The prime minister sought to identify “deeper problems” and came up with a sociological canard: the culture of poverty.

  This analysis is one that regards the chaotic lives of poor people as cause, not symptom, of the collapse of their communities. For the prime minister, these families and their children simply chose to be feckless, indolent or on the wrong side of police lines.

  Such talk will do much to harden public attitudes – helpful to a prime minister who wants to push draconian social policy through the Lords in the autumn. The rhetoric will profit the contentious welfare reforms, a policy built on the idea that poor people are “culturally” unique and dependent on welfare by their own design.

  Guardian columnist Anne Perkins framed Cameron’s speech as an attempt to change the public’s understanding of the violence and bring them on board with the Conservative Party’s agenda……

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  Kyaemon

  August 19, 2011 at 3:54 am

  After London riots, a UK war on gangs
  Following the riots that rocked London and several other English cities, Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed a ‘all-out war on gangs and gang culture.’

  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0818/After-London-riots-a-UK-war-on-gangs

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  Kyaemon

  August 20, 2011 at 4:07 am

  Theresa May says police may get new curfew powers – video

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/16/theresa-may-police-curfew-video

  New powers allowing police to clear the streets and create ‘no-go’ areas for the public are being considered in the light of last week’s riots, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said in a speech in London.

  The home secretary said the police may need the power ‘to impose a general curfew in a particular area’. She said the government was also contemplating tougher powers to impose curfews on individual under-16s

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  Kyaemon

  August 20, 2011 at 2:59 pm

  Tottenham MP: Riots have ripped heart out of community – video

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2011/aug/07/tottenham-riots-david-lammy-mp-responds?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486

  David Lammy responds to sustained outbreak of violence and looting in the north London suburb

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  Kyaemon

  August 21, 2011 at 1:03 am

  Riot footage shows shots fired at police and helicopter

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/20/riot-footage-shots-fired-police

  Attempted murder investigation launched after CCTV footage of Birmingham riot shows unarmed officers and a police helicopter being shot at

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  New CCTV footage of the riots in Birmingham shows police officers and a force helicopter being shot at.

  The footage, which has been released by West Midlands police to encourage members of the public to come forward, shows a group of 30 to 40 young men rioting in the Newtown area of the city on the night of Tuesday 9 August.

  The force said the group, all masked and wearing black clothing, caused extensive damage to the Barton Arms pub in Newtown and the surrounding area.

  Police arrived at the scene at about 11.50pm, whereupon petrol bombs were thrown at a marked police car and 11 shots were fired at officers and a force helicopter.

  An attempted murder and arson investigation has been launched and officers have appealed for anyone with information about the attacks to contact them.

  A spokesman said a small amount of money was stolen from the pub, but the use of alcohol and petrol leads police to believe that the intention was to start a fire.

  Chief Constable Chris Sims said: “Releasing footage that is so disturbing in nature is an unusual step for us as a force, however, the potential for serious harm, or worse, in this incident has led us to this decision.

  “Eleven shots were fired at unarmed officers to enable disorder to continue, while petrol bombs were also thrown at officers who initially attended the scene.

  “This footage shows seemingly co-ordinated criminal behaviour with no regard for people’s lives, whether it be through the setting of a fire, shooting at unarmed officers or shooting at the police helicopter.

  “This investigation is being treated as attempted murder and arson, and I am only thankful that this is not a murder inquiry.

  “This was not only police officers’ lives that were put at risk, but also members of the public who may have been passing by.”

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  Kyaemon

  August 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm

  The UK riots and language: ‘rioter’, ‘protester’ or ‘scum’?

  The UK riots and language: ‘rioter’, ‘protester’ or ‘scum’? | UK news | The Guardian

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/uk-riots-language?intcmp=239

  The BBC drew a small storm of criticism for using the word ‘protesters’ to describe the people taking part in this week’s trouble

  “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” as the saying – penned first by author Gerald Seymour in the 1975 thriller Harry’s Game, and repeated ad nauseam since – puts it. Everything depends on your point of view. So what should we call the people who for the last four nights have been running riot in half-a-dozen British cities?
  The BBC, for one, began last weekend by calling them “protesters”, presumably because the initial rioting in Tottenham on Saturday was, or appeared to be, a protest at the lack of a satisfactory police response to questions about the death of Mark Duggan. It was a term the corporation continued to use for at least two further days, drawing a small storm of criticism from members of the public who took to Twitter to express their disapproval.
  “Why do the press keep calling the rioters here protesters?” asked Linda Keen. “They’re not protesting about or for anything.”
  Rob Steadman agreed: “This has nothing to do with protest.”
  In similar vein, Ed Gerstner demanded: “Seriously, @BBCnews, stop calling these people protesters. They’re criminals, or rioters. But not protesters.”

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  Kyaemon

  August 22, 2011 at 11:57 am

  UK riots: ‘Those who seek to racialise this problem are taking us backwards’

  UK riots: ‘Those who seek to racialise this problem are taking us backwards’ | UK news | The Guardian

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/uk-riots-racial-dimension?intcmp=239

  The degree to which tensions between different ethnic communities played a part in the riots is a complex issue

  In Dalston, north-east London, on Monday night, hundreds of business owners in Kingsland Road, the majority of them Turkish and Kurdish, gathered on the street to “protect” their properties from looters, “because the police, they can do nothing”.
  In Southall, to the west, the following night, scores of Sikh men gathered outside their temple – but also, reportedly, a mosque and a Hindu temple – for the same reason. While elderly community leaders were among them, a number of others stood at temple doors holding baseball bats.

  Several miles to the south, in Eltham, hundreds of local people, almost exclusively white, took to the streets, amid rumours that the English Defence League was mobilising in the area in an attempt to exploit community tensions.
  At the same time, in Dudley Road, Birmingham, residents of Winson Green had gathered on the streets for the same reason when a car was driven at speed by a 32-year-old African- Caribbean man, killing three young Asian men. But despite speculation, there is scant evidence to suggest race or ethnicity has played any significant part in the rioting and looting taking place across England.
  Police and community leaders in Birmingham have moved swiftly since the deaths to urge calm, stressing that the situation is “complicated”, amid fears that the ongoing tensions could swiftly develop what the Bishop of Aston, Rt Rev Andrew Watson, called “an ugly race dimension”.

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  Kyaemon

  August 25, 2011 at 6:28 am

  Riot inciter Johnny Melfah loses anonymity after court ruling

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14657963

  A boy who admitted inciting thefts and criminal damage on a Facebook page during recent riots has been identified after a court lifted an order.

  Johnny Melfah, 16, of Thames Avenue, Droitwich, Worcestershire, admitted posting comments that were designed to encourage theft and criminal damage.

  Matt Prodger reports.

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  Kyaemon

  November 24, 2011 at 9:04 am

  အင်ဂလန်မှာ ရုတ်ရုတ်သဲသဲ ဖြစ်စဉ်ခါက စွန့်စွန့်စားစား ခဲရာခဲဆစ် ရိုက်ကူးလိုက်တဲ့ မှတ်တမ်းဝင် ဓာတ်ပုံများ

  ပုလိပ် ရဟတ်ယာဉ်နဲ့လိုက်ပါပြီး ဓာတ်ပုံဆရာ Lewis Whyld ၏ မျက်မြင်ကိုယ်တွေ့ ရိုက်ချက်လက်ရာတွေဟာ ကမ်ဘာတဝိုက် ပြန့်နှံ့သွားခဲ့ တယ်

  ဩဂုတ်လ ၆ရတ်နေ့က London လန်ဒန်မြို့ Tottenham တိုတန်ဟမ်ရပ်ကွက် တခွင် နေရာအနှံ့ မှာ ဖြစ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရှူခင်းတွေကို ဓာတ်ပုံဆရာ Lewis Whyld နဲ့အတူ လိုက် သွားသလိုဘဲ ကြည်ရှူ ခံစားနိုင်ဘို့အောက်ပါ Link ကိုနှိပ်ပါ

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15519194

  England riots: One photographer’s baptism of fire
  When photographer Lewis Whyld of the Press Association arrived on Tottenham High Street on 6 August, the first and fiercest night of this summer’s riots, he soon saw three other photographers being attacked. For the next hour he was forced to shoot on his mobile phone, and only pulled out his cameras once it was dark.

  Shooting by the light of the police helicopter searchlight, Whyld captured these images that went right round the world. Here Whyld reveals how he documented a night of unrest in north London.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15519194

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