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December 15, 2008
Bush met the writer and bloggers
By Ashin Mettacara
blogging for freedom
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By Ashin Mettacara
US President George Bush marked Human Rights Day on Wednesday by meeting with a writer from Sudan and six bloggers from Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, and Myanmar(Burma).
Bush first met the writer of " Tears of the Desert" Dr. Halima Bashir in the Oval Office, and he also met in the Roosevelt Room with international bloggers from six countries. Bush 's meeting at the White House with international bloggers intended to discuss blogging , and to push for democratic change by using the internet.