08/08/08 #
August 8th, 2008 | In Worth Knowing
It’s a momentous date for number of reasons. The three most prominent:
- The Olympics begin. That’s a link to a Big Picture post.
- Russia and Georgia are in the midst of an “undeclared war” over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. This had been speculated about for a while — The Economist even ran an analysis piece on their website today about what trouble such a conflict would cause. Passport has a wrap-up.
- It’s the 20th anniversary of the biggest pro-democracy demonstration in Burmese history. That one, like the recent “Saffron Revolution”, was pretty handily suppressed. (Link goes to The Irradday’s special issue, via Passport.)