Myanmar horror rages on
p2pnet news | Freedom:- The bloody terror created by the military junta in Myanmar continues while the so-called Super Powers watch and do nothing.
The generals who run the country are blaming blaming Buddhist monks for the ongoing pro-democracy protests and have admitted nearly 3,000 people had been detained over the rallies, says Agency France-Presse.
It goes on:
The official New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said that if the monks had remained in their monasteries, “the government would not have used force to prevent protests.”
“If… they had not staged protest marches, demanding release of political prisoners, the nation would not have seen any chaos,” it added.
State media also gave a sharply higher figure for the number of people who were detained in connection with the protests, saying 2,927 had been locked up around the country and 468 remained behind bars.
Richard Bacon’s Burma (Myanmar) Blog picks up a report by David Jimenez from Spain’s El Mundo newspaper, republished 11 days ago in the Toronto Star in Canada.
Jimenez writes:
Now, the Burmese have accepted that their revolution was not meant to be. With no help from outside, and no escape possible, they have begun to pay the price for believing – for a moment – that there were possibilities.
Bravery and defiance have turned into fear. Hope into despair. Dreams of democracy into old nightmares of tyranny.
It was only a week ago that people were cheering those few journalists who sneaked into the country. Shopkeepers and housewives would give us food and water on the streets, asking us not to leave them.
“Please, stay,” one lady in her `50s told me during one of the demonstrations. “We need the world to see what is happening.”
Now that the end has come, they no longer look foreigners in the eye, haunted by the fear of being tainted, detained and made to disappear.
The fear is in their eyes.
How could it all go wrong so rapidly? The sight of the monks marching had given people, paralyzed by decades of repression, the strength to join a movement marching against all odds. For a time, their biggest fear was missing the opportunity of a lifetime – and the chance to change their lives and the lives of their children.
Then came the darkness.
But these two cartoons from Ko Htike’s Prosaic Collection still say it all —-
Also See:
bloody terror – Myanmar: Terror Regime, October 6, 2007
Agency France-Presse -Myanmar blames monks for triggering violence, October 17, 2007
Toronto Star – A reporter’s rare look inside Burma, October 6, 2007
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October 17th, 2007 at 8:11 am
to be honest if the ‘west’ where to send in troops would it work or would we get another Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq etc..
October 17th, 2007 at 10:36 am
I believe that we have to invade Myanmar.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Let pay some hit men to kill one by one these military pigs