Burma

[Marshal Murat]

While some of you may use the term 'Myanmar' I am disgusted, saddened, and ashamed, but also proud of Burma.

Times on Burma

Burma’s generals silenced the Buddhist monks yesterday morning.

For a week and a half, the monks had been on the streets of Rangoon in their tens of thousands, and their angry calm gave courage to the people around them.

But overnight, they were beaten, shot and arrested, and locked in their monasteries. Handfuls of them emerged yesterday – two or three brave individuals, a dozen at most – but nothing to approach the mass marches of the previous nine days. Everyone felt their absence.

It shows how powerful religious figures can be.
It shows that aggression and violence don't always lead to change.
It shows that something is terribly wrong. ( )

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Accounts from Inside Burma

This is where democracy started, and I hope that the world will bring attention to this issue, just as many people bring attention to Darfur.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

This is where democracy started, and I hope that the world will bring attention to this issue, just as many people bring attention to Darfur.

I hope something is actually done about it. This isn't Iraq, this is a country where the majority of people are actually fighting (without violence) for democracy, or at least a more humane regime. Help them with an international force, I say.

[master of the puppets]

Be realistic, since when have international forces been deployed to avenge what is a relatively miniscule amount of deaths and injuries. i'm not defending Myanmar's junta and i certainly disapprove of there us of wanton violence but honestly thats how it goes sometimes. there are many violent regimes around the world, Syria, Saudi Arabia, half of Africa, and much of southern Asia all suffer under harsh rule. Can we honestly go and save every ailing country from itself on the basis simply that they do not live so soundly or comfortably as us? Are YOU willing to risk your life behind a gun to free those people?

The world is a up place, far more than it has to be, and likely for yet more time.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Be realistic, since when have international forces been deployed to avenge what is a relatively miniscule amount of deaths and injuries.

I am. I know nothing will be done there, I just hope that somebody will have the decency to do what is right. I doubt they will, but one can hope.

[master of the puppets]

Noone is hoping more than those monks, my friend. They are the firebrands, let us hope the populations outrage one day outweighs there fear. It seems they must first try to help themselves before anyone will help them.

[HoreTore]

I want to go there.