[davidlachnicht]

Killing Fields, Again.

[vpintheak]

Communism again. I’m sure these murders were for the benefit of the people, like the commies everywhere love to say. I am sick.

[davidlachnicht]

“With protests quashed and many monasteries empty, fears are growing for those who have disappeared into Burma’s grim prisons in recent days - rights groups say more than 1,000 people, including monks and students, are missing.”

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/10/02/headlines/headlines_30050971.php

[ConorMacNessa]

Prayers going up for Myanmar’s freedom martyrs.

[ClearCase_guy]

Don’t worry! The UN is on the way!!

[walford]

Burma is a prime example of why the UN is irrelevant. No regime that is held into place by force should have a voice in an international institution of any kind, much less one that putatively exists to promote peace.

Furthermore, more action than just ‘stern words’ should be taken in response to this barbarism.

Short of invasion, there should be a strict economic blockade and safe haven provided on the borders to anyone who wants to leave. I would even go so far as to advocate targeted harassment attacks on their military facilities and assets.

[davidlachnicht]

“Thousands of monks detained in Burma’s main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.

About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7022437.stm

[davidlachnicht]

Thailand Daily has some good coverage, including Thailand NOT allowing refuges into their country.

http://www.thailanddaily.com/

[Brilliant]

It’s no coincidence that this comes right after the Chinese had a heart-to-heart talk with their Burmese puppets.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Quite a different outcome from the Ferdinand Marcos demonstrations of the 1980’s Phillipines.

[Uncle Miltie]

SHAME!

Boycott Burma!

(If you weren't already)

[TigersEye]

Previous thread of same article different source here...

Thousands dead in the massacre of the monks

All Burma threads here...

keyword 'burma'

[Toliy]

Myanmar (former Burma)
src: Wiki

Some interesting facts about Burma:

• British colony until 1947
• Upon achieving independence (Jan 4, 1948) Burma was one of the wealthiest South-East Asian nation with world's largest rice exports, a developed infrastructure, the highest SE Asian literacy rate, and oil & natural gas reserves
• Prime Minister U Nu's government initiated the Two-Year Economic Development Plan, designed to transform Burma in to a welfare state
• The plan's failure plunged Burma to the World's Least Developed Country status in 1987; today the nation's infatrasture is almost non-existent, and Burma is the world's second-largest opium producer/exporter.
• The EU, UN, and the US have issued various economic sanctions against Burma; of interest, the UN sanctions of 2006 are full of loopholes (due to stonewalling by China and Russia), allowing Chinese trade interests (mosly oil) to function inside Burma.
• Burma's ruling military junta enjoys widespread support by China

But this just can't be about oil, because Bush isn't involved, right? ..

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Sick.....this is what should be reported night after night on MSM instead of the current “gossip”. It is sickening.

[navyblue]

And the U.N.,Useless Nations does what?

[navyblue]

And the U.N.,Useless Nations does what?

[Danae]

Time for Thumb screws on India, China and Russia, they have the economic machete’s by which Burma’s Junta will bow down to. India isn’t saying a damn thing, and neither is Russia because they want Burma’s oil and natural gas. China issued a tap on the wrist statement. These are the ONLY countries that have any sway with Burma’s Military Junta. The US MUST demand action from India, China and Russia if ANYTHING even REMOTELY positive is going to happen in Burma.

Pray...

[WLR]

Does the Government of Burma allow Islamofacists to operate on their soil or not?..

Not....

We are in a War with Islamofacisism not Burma..

The US State Department has been bashing the Military Ruled Government there forever and foistering revolution..

Why? Because they will not play ball with the World Bank?

We have Hugo Chavez in our own back yard and don’t do diddly to him.. We are halfa##ed fighting all over the world and still the State Department finds time to create trouble for a country that is not causing us trouble and if it were not for economic sanctions would be prospering..

We want them to have a Democracy?

Oh like Libia, Syria, or our “Gallant Ally” Saudi Arabia?

What nonsense.

W

[at bay]

The name is Burma. The US does not recognize that other wierd name imposed by the murdering military thugs. We need to move past this political correctness.

I will keep posting this thought until that other name is never seen again on this website.

Burma lives.

[ken21]

where are the american leftists?