NationStates Jolt Archive


Why Bush is wrong on Burma

Tape worm sandwiches
26-09-2007, 00:12
He said a 19 year rule.
-ah, no.
The junta has ruled since one of its founder Aung San, the father of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was assassinated. This was sometime
in the 50s or so.

in '88, on 8-8-88 to be exact, the military junta cracked down in a bloodbath
that was much worse than Tiananmen Square.

The junta rearrranged itself around then and renamed itself.
In the late 90s it renamed itself once again.



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Also,
sanctions do not really harm the junta at all.
the generals have thrived in isolation.
it only harms ordinary people.

They believe democracy is not of Burmese culture.
The pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has written in her
book "Freedom From Fear" that if that applied to Christianity or Buddhism
those religions would have remained in a small portion of the middle east and a part of India, respectively.
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your Burma coverage starts here
http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/




Voices of Reason.

"A flyer distributed in the crowds dealt with ahimsa (non-violence) and how all Burmese are suffering at the hands of one another and
asked all to come together to end the suffering."

September 23, 2007, Mizzima News
http://www.mizzima.com/
Dontgonearthere
26-09-2007, 00:14
K...So Bush was wrong about something ELSE. Good for you?

You'd get far better responses if you'd left the Bush bit out and just talked about Burma.