BURMA

[Gypsum Salt]

As always; you’re limited mental capacity shows itself.

I think that even by your own low sewer dredging standards, that attacking me on a thread such as this, shows that you have slumped to a new nadir.

Your mental and moral bankruptcy is apparent for all to see.

How incredibly empty your life must be to attention seek in such a blatantly pathetic manner.





Gypsum

[Guest]

You are wrong. I am an opponent of the counterrevolution and a supporter of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). The situation in Myanmar is not so cut and dried as the international media portrays it to be.

[Gypsum Salt]

You sound more like a member of the Campaign for Repression And Punishment (CRAP)



Go on then, tell everybody how the violent suppression of the population is justified.

Along with the annulment of the results of a democratic election








Gypsum

[Guest]

The election was a fraudulent farce, rigged on a grassroots level by a radical Trotskyist/Maoist cabal whose goal is to make Myanmar a communist state along the lines of Cambodia under Pol Pot's barbaric Khmer Rouge.

[Gypsum Salt]

And your evidence for this ridiculous statement is?







Gypsum

[mundheim]

I am not a supporter of SLORC, but I have to admit there is no evidence that the 1990 general election was free and fair. Of course this is because SLORC did not allow international observers. The West infer that the election was free and fair mainly based on the outcome, victory by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party.

Why hasn't NATO or the U.S. or a Western or international coalition invaded Myanmar to overthrow the SLORC? Because Myanmar borders China and India, the SLORC need not fear military intervention by NATO, the U.S. or any Western coalition.

The power to effect change in Myanmar lies only with China and India. The West should focus its efforts on enlisting both China and India to effect the overthrow of the SLORC. Both countries must agree for anything to happen. If either China or India want the SLORC to remain in power, for whatever reason, the SLORC will continue to rule and the West is powerless to do anything but make noises.

[Guest]

Thailand has a long shared border and close economic ties with Burma.

[DanMc]

The situation in Burma is a classic example of how the west turns a blind eye when there's nothing in it for us. Yet Blair claimed the invasion of Iraq was justified to free the people from Sadam, after of course the claim of WMD/45 minutes was shown to be a lie.

[Guest]

[Guest]

who cares about burma? charity begins at home.

[geraldineAE]

The West has done something but it could do more including stopping European companies doing business with the Junta. But the fact is the primary responsibility lies with India and China and they don't give a rats ass about any violations of human rights as long as the raw materials keep flowing. SLORC has nothing to fear from either of them in any event because it can keep playing China and India off against each other.
And as for the contemptible nations of South-East Asia..there seems to be nothing you can do to earn their disapproval. They simply don't see what the fuss is about. To them human rights, democracy and freedom of speech etc are frivolous luxuries that get in the way of security, economic development and order.
The sad truth is the people of Burma are on their own. The military government are totally ruthless and the best we can hope for is some kind of shift in power in the military government, perhaps a new generation of officers a little less hard-line.

[Guest]

Has the world forgotten about Burma?