Posted on 01/02/2005 4:58:22 AM PST by flitton
It will be a great day when the Burmese regime falls.
"You’ll most likely know it as Myanmar, but it’ll always be Burma to me..."
It's BURMA you a$$clown. Burma BURMA Burma. As in BURMA Shave.
Oh, and bite me you Stalin wannabe.
5.56mm
The dictators named Burma Myanmar. The opposition doesn't accept that term.
I don't think those tyrants read FR. They must read DU.
Stalin wannabes are the DUmmies biggest heros.
Rangoon Press Release: 90 people died as far as you know.
It never ceases to amaze me how there is a Seinfeld quote for every occasion.
Amazing. The world is offering free money, but this North Korean Mini-Me is having no part.
Ping............
My sister-in-law (and family) just left the 29th of November to Thailand, trying to eventually get visas to become a missionary in Myanmar. The doors have become tighter and tighter all the time. They are praying for a window of opportunity in order to get in.
poing
Perhaps this will be it. Maybe a good thing to come out of this whole situation will be a weakening of the grip of authoritarian rulers in the area including the likes of the Tamil Tigers etc.
Problem with Burma is it isn't waiting for just one idiot to die like Cuba; Burma doesn't have one dictator, it has this sort of faceless ruling junta comprised of a bunch of generals.
There are more problems in Burma than just the current rulers. It would be great if Aung San Suu Kyi believed what her father believed, but she does not. Aung San wanted to give full rights to the various minorities. His daughter wants to force majority rule on them. Even if she somehow got power, this is not going to go over very well.
The Tamil Tigers were infact losing their cohesiveness with lots of internal wrangling & the peace process in full swing,backed by India signing a defence treaty with Sri Lanka.But the Tsunami may just prove to be the impetus to make them a threat again-there are plenty of reports on websites of how the Sri Lankan govt is trying to block much needed aid from going to the area.I don't know how true it is,but having seen Chandrika Kumaratunga's obstinance,I won't be surprised if it is.If innocent people in Jaffna & elsewhere starve,it will be the gel that binds the tigers together.The only way to prevent it is for India & the US to put pressure on the Lankan government or for India to forcibly resupply those areas as it did in 1986.
Interesting if sad, thanks for that info.
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