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 World Leaders Condemn Burma ViolencePosted on Sep 27, 2007
At least nine more people have been killed and hundreds of monks abducted as Burma’s military regime attempts to stamp out a defiant demonstration against its abuses. China, under pressure from the U.S., has urged calm, while a representative of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations said Burma’s neighbors have “expressed their revulsion” in communications to the military junta’s foreign minister.
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By Douglas Chalmers, September 29, 2007 at 5:23 am #
#103292 by levi civita on 9/28 at 1:27 pm: “...The west and the Burmese educated in the west are pissed at Burma’s policy of autarky...a market denied to the plundering west....”
France’s Total oil company runs the game there already! Let’s see what Sarko the Neocon (the new Blair poodle) can come up with as an excuse.
Report thisBy levi civita, September 28, 2007 at 1:27 pm #
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Not to defend any generals…
The west and the Burmese educated in the west are pissed at Burma’s policy of autarky...a market denied to the plundering west.
Burma’s problem, and the problem of the world at large, is exploding population. Generals or no Generals, the picture is not going to be pretty in the face of doubling prices of gas and food. But when all is said and done, the relatively local economies of Burma (and North Korea) will be better off when production of oil and other resources plummets in the next decade or so.
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, September 28, 2007 at 11:49 am #
#103216 by Thomas Billis on 9/28 at 6:31 am: “...Somebody in this administration ought to make a cassette of the riots in Burma...”
Shot dead trying to show the truth In Burma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUUQi1ooEAs
Report thisBy Thomas Billis, September 28, 2007 at 6:31 am #
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Somebody in this administration ought to make a cassette of the riots in Burma like they did of the news reports of hurricane Katrina and show it to the Happy Moron President so he can see what a true fight for democracy in a country looks like.By the way it looks like the brutal Generals in Burma did not get the memo from Saddam Hussein and kill all the Mandelas because there are thousands of them in the streets.
Report thisBy John Borowski, September 28, 2007 at 3:47 am #
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Most people in this country dont understand the beliefs of the Republicans. (Aka Conservatives right-wingers) They abhor dictatorships, but only for the bad guys.
Report thisBy Verne Arnold, September 28, 2007 at 1:44 am #
According to a report from the International Herald Tribune; “many 10’s of protesters have been killed”. So...blah, blah, blah, blah, from the rest of the world? Hmmmmmmmmmmm........where is ASEAN, China, Thailand, America, France and all of the other countries doing business with these despots?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum.........
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, September 27, 2007 at 11:31 pm #
Meanwhile, in Australia, police bash protestors: - “RIOT police clashed with protesters outside the Burmese embassy in Canberra today, as the Australian Government called in the junta’s top diplomat to condemn the regime’s actions....” http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,224 97621-5013404,00.html Apparently, only the government has the right to speak in both Burma and Australia!
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, September 27, 2007 at 10:29 pm #
Strange about these countries which have a large standing army which never fights any wars but is always active.
Interesting also that China has finally come around to expressing “revulsion” for what the PRC gleefully did to its own people in the 40’s-60’s.
Isn’t it about time the ASEAN countries did the same!?!? “Every civilised nation has a responsibility to stand up for people suffering under a brutal military regime like the one that has ruled Burma for too long.”
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