Posted on 09/25/2007 12:08:23 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
The title, at this time, of the article on the BBC website: “Army broadcasts Rangoon warning” .
Asia pinglist ping.
This is the time for both India and Thailand to issue strong public statement warning of certain retaliation if the junta starts murdering it’s people (monks) in the streets again.
The World should not be quiet
and of course China will not say diddly ....
This is going to get ugly. The protests have metastasized, and these monks don’t care what the army does. The army doesn’t care either. Look out.
And if the Communist government of China falls, that will be a major blow to the dictatorships of the world.
As for Burma alone, hopefully the nation will be freed fast, and with a minimum of bloodshed.
The title of the article has changed. “Burmese monks defy army warning” .
Sure, tons of monks
Do march and rave,
But army punks
Use Burma-Shave.
This could get real interesting real soon.
This should be a focus of FR but we’re too busy getting in the face of Code Pink.
Priorities, priorities...
well we are doing what we can .
That Mr. President is on this issue is a great thing.
the 1st Lady too I imagine .
Let’s just stick with it and hope for the best
Like the rush of spring's first mountain water runoffs, so clean and so pure. Or the call of the majestic eagle, crying out to every valley that will echo forever-- "We must have freedom! We must have freedom! Our lives are nothing without freedom!"
This bears watching. Currently the US gov. is relocating thru amnesty 1000s of Burmese.
if you’d like to see how desparate the Junta is :
http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/nlm/
trying like hell to pull all the strings they have with the
committed senior Sangha that have been on the government dole so long they forget what it is like to wish for FREEDOM!
The Generals are brutal thugs who have kept their grasp on power with only some 20% support and with China's very active good wishes. The Monks and others are very brave and certainly have my support for what it is worth.
These kind of regimes often don't have a strong central leader, as there are usually a number of factions, and the 'leader' is usually the person who has amassed enough wealth to pay the rank and file soldiers, sort of like the later Roman Empire, but on a smaller scale.
It used to be that that US government, through the CIA, would funnel cash to whoever they thought would be most effectual or pro democratic leader, so they could get control of the military by buying them off. (Often the money was in the form of "black money", which was cash treated with a chemical that blackened or otherwise disfigured the currency. The government operatives had the solution that cleaned it, that way they had more control of who could use the money. At least this was the way we interacted with the constantly revolving regimes in west Africa.)
Whether we have any influence with the Burmese, seems kind of doubtful. Hopefully the Indians would have a line, certainly better them than the Chinese, but I certainly hope and pray for the best for the Burmese people.
I disagree, I feel it is more likely that the military will act with force and put down this act of Lèse majesté. Rather than being about freedom and democracy, average Burmans are more upset about the cut of fuel subsidies due to rising oil costs that directly impact their living conditions. Whether the military stays or remains, Burma will still have at her feet the same problems it continues to have.
The Junta should have acted much earlier and staunched the protests while they were in their infancy before letting it move to the point it has today.
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