Don't expect the Western media to speak up too much against the slaughter in Burma.
They certainly don't want to take any chances and give the warmongering neocons any ideas.
Another photo was released of murdered Japanese photographer Kenji Nagai. He was shot dead by junta police right after this photo was taken. (DVB)
From a different angle Kenji Nagai is shot dead by a junta soldier. (DVB)
A few hundred brave democracy protesters gathered in Rangoon today.
The BBC has video from Rongoon.
Vaclav Havel Condemns World's Non-Reaction to Slaughter in Burma
Via Glenn Reynolds and Comment As Free:
In the coming days - perhaps even hours - the destiny of Burma (also known as Myanmar), and the fates of over 50 million Burmese, will be decided. Today's crisis has been brewing for many years. But nobody knew with any precision just when open revolt against Burma's military dictatorship would erupt.Another dead student protester in Burma:
I fear that, with only a few exceptions, most countries have been surprised and caught off guard - once again - by the rapid course that events have taken in Burma. So they seem to be completely unprepared for the crisis and thus at a loss as to what to do.
How many times and in how many places has this now happened? Worse, however, is the number of countries that find it convenient to avert their eyes and ears from the deathly silence with which this Asian country chooses to present itself to the outside world.
In Burma, the power of educated Buddhist monks - people who are unarmed and peace loving by their very nature - has risen up against the military regime. That monks are leading the protests is no great surprise to those who have taken a long-term interest in the situation in Burma.
An overwhelming number of Burma's Buddhist monks have found it difficult to bear the central and regional governments' efforts to corrupt their monastic orders, and to misuse the example of the monks' self-restraint to increase the pressure on other believers. Of course, without universal and coordinated international political, economic, and media support for these brave monks, all development in Burma may quickly be put back nearly 20 years.
From the Democratic Voice of Burma website. (I posted a white circle over the bullet wound that is obvious in the original.)
How sad.
Free Burma is planning a symbolic protest on October 4, 2007.
It's a nice gesture but it won't take the guns from the junta.
Previously:
In Rare Protest- Myanmar Democracy Activists Get Beatdown
1,000 Burmese Monks Protest Junta Abuse-- Get Beatdown!
Burma's Monks March On-- Meet With Aung San Suu Kyi -Update: With Photo
20,000 Protest Military Junta in Burma!
ANOTHER MASSIVE PROTEST in Rangoon Against the Junta!
JUNTA FIRES ON MONKS!... Deaths Reported in Burma
CRACKDOWN IN BURMA- China & Russia Block UN Action!
The Second Amendment: Why We Have It
US Senators Support Democracy Protesters in Burma
JUNTA CRACKDOWN IN MYANMAR!
Buddhist Leader Dalai Lama Extends Support to Burmese Protesters... From Spain
Havel gives voice to my own disgust with the world's power structures.
ReplyDeleteAgain, we see the slaughter and oppression of the people, while the world's leaders and the United Nations wring their hands, and call for someone to "do something". But these very same leaders fail to support anyone who actually DOES try to stop the oppression, and instead attack them for "imposing their values" on another sovereign nation.
The major excuse this time seems to be that Burma is in the Chinese sphere of influence, so it is up to the Chinese to "do something". Of course, when one recalls the horror of Tienanmen Square, the likelyhood of that happening pales to insignifigance.
So sorry for the people of Burma. You are Buddhists, not Muslims, so the world doesn't care. Your dictators do not have Nuclear Weapons or WMDs, so the world will not help you. Your nation is a small backwater in Asia, so your fate is left to the tender mercies of the Butchers in Beijing. Your oppressors are your own countrymen, not evil colonial Eurpoeans, so no one will come to your aid.
And the worst of all is the complete lack of shame our leaders feel, in failing to help our brothers and sisters in their hour of need.
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ReplyDeleteif the US went storming in to save these people, we would once again be called warmongers..
what surprises me the most is, we're not being cursed for not storming in & saving those people (well, not yet anyways)..
but what surprises me the most is..
the BDS suffering anti-America clowns haven't been screaming it's all Bush's fault.. but i'm sure their working on some convoluted angle to accomplish that mission..
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ReplyDeleteAurelius @ 10:49
excellent post!!
you hammered another nail into the coffin of the TRUTH.. i sincerely hope it's the last one.. and the world WAKE'S UP to the extent of it's culpability!!
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October 4 is support day from blogs worldwide:
ReplyDeleteInternational bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words „Free Burma!“.
Links and more info here:
http://freeburma.stots.de/doku.php
Thanks for spreading the word.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 11:10 AM
Free Burma! 04. October 2007
Thanks for spreading the word.
thank you..
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The Leftist refrain under any and ALL circumstances:
ReplyDelete'Ever Again.'
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ReplyDeleteHT : Belmont Club
Letter from Burma
Before I go to bed tonight, I will pray hard to Lord Buddha that I will wake up as a Japanese in the morning. All my life, I have been a Burmese and I have always thought that all the human lives have equal values in this world after reading “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. It was a rude awakening for me and I only realized it in the last few days.
Matter of fact, I just learned that a Japanese life is worth more than thousands of Burmese lives. It is evident from the reaction of the Japanese government after a Japanese journalist was killed in Rangoon. The Japanese government has long been aware of the fact that Burmese people go through these abuses at junta’s hand everyday. Summary executions, forced labor, forced relocation, forced conscription of child soldiers and many other atrocities. But Japanese government has been indifferent in their policy of engaging with the military junta and supporting them.
Suddenly, even the Deputy Foreign Minister is going to Burma for an investigation for the death of the Japanese journalist. Please don’t misunderstand me, myself along with all the Burmese appreciate the efforts of Nagai San to expose the living hell that the Burmese live day in day out, to the outside world. Our condolences go to his family. It is sad that an innocent Japanese life had to be lost because the government of Japan had ignored all the facts for decades knowingly.
I will also pray for all the other Burmese to wake up as Japanese tomorrow. Lord Buddha please have mercy on all of us Burmese and let us wake up as Japanese tomorrow.
Zaw Tun
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