Myanmar is hell on earth, what is the UN doing about it?
September 29th, 2007 | by Dusty | Published in Corruption in Govt, Politics | 1 Comment
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The Monks in the beginning of the video started the protests. The brutal regime that has controlled Myanmar, formally Burma have been arresting and/or locking down all their monasteries in an attempt to keep them silent. Thursday, a Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was murdered by a soldier at pointblank range during one of the protests in the capitol city formally known as Rangoon. His murder is visable on the video. He was killed because he held a video camera..nothing more. The death toll is probably much higher than the government is letting on. Democracy Now! has a good interview up with an activist from Burma. Htun Aung Gway, President of the U.S.-based Civil Society for Burma. He is the former president of the All Burma Student Democratic Front that led the protests of 1974 and 1988. He was imprisoned for five years in Burma and came to the United States in 1992 after living in the jungle on the Burmese-Thai border for 4 years. He now lives in Chicago.
The government has stopped all internet access in and out of Myanmar in a weak ass attempt to keep the world from knowing what is going on there. Their voices are still getting out in some instances, but they fear for their lives just because they seek to tell the world what is happening. The British news is all over this..unlike the US media.
Why didn’t BushCo go after the military junta in Myanmar if he was so damned worried about despicable despots?
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September 29th, 2007at 3:01 pm(#)
Dusty
I am still nonplussed by all this but I understand the Monks are in lockdown or hiding. I was listening to some dissidents in London and they are not going to back down but will fight to the death for the Monks. I do not understand the military fighting a bunch of Monks! What is happening to the world?