Burma & its Uprising.

In Burma, as I post this, the government forces of the army & the police are engaged in activities which are in complete contradiction to everything which I and most of the world hold to be right, fair and just. The Army has begun to fire indiscriminately at the protesters who have lined the streets of the Capital, Rangoon, since the weekend, when Monks visited the Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Ki. The People of Burma have been fighting the injustices of an opressive State regime, for the last 20 years since the Military coup in that country. They now deserve our help to rectify this situation.

Is free and democratic government such a hard ask? nieve maybe, but not when you consider that all men will do everything in their power to hold onto all power possible for as long as possible. Maybe it is a big ask.

One thing I have found interesting though in this "popular uprising movement" is the use of Buddhists monks as a protective shield for the masses involved. I find it interesting from the point of view, that the Army/State agents could without any quibbles quell this uprising by taking out those whom begun this. BUT they are religious men and that has made a difference in this. You can kill all the people you want, but once you take on the power of a religion, whatever that religion maybe, then you enter into a completely different territory where the future stability of the State will be in jeopardy. The Govt is caught in a further delegitimating act of persecruting religion to which most people subscribe to & in this case it will be its own downfall.


Some Burma Bloggers

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