Rocketboom gives us a brief 3 1/2 minute lecture explaining what is happening in Burma. You must get informed. What is happening there will be affecting us all here in the United States very soon!
I often wonder why Burma is NOT getting any news coverage here in the US. The media has kept us ALL sheltered from global atrocities such as this!
Why does history keep repeating itself??? Can anyone PLEASE explain this vicious cycle to me. I thought we SAID never again!!!
Washington Post: Capitalizing on Burma's Autumn Dissent article dated December 4, 2007
Images of soldiers clubbing barefoot monks in saffron robes focused world attention on Burma's often-ignored military dictatorship and prodded the generals to begin talking to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate and opposition leader whose party trounced them in a 1990 election and who is under house arrest in Rangoon. It also energized a nationwide cadre of angry monks, potent agents of grass-roots change in a Buddhist nation where the number of monks (about 400,000) rivals the number of soldiers.
China, Thailand and India have not substantially changed their economic dealings with the Burmese military, buying electricity, natural gas, oil and timber worth an estimated $2 billion a year.
1 comment:
I had no idea how horrible it was over there... or even about China's involvement in everything you mentioned. Thank you for the information!
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