The words “panties” and “spreading” usually don’t appear together on the agenda for bringing democracy, but a Canadian human rights group is changing all that. Panties for Peace has been around for less than a year, but the underwear revolution has spread to the Philippines, Spain, Poland and the U.S. It plays on the popular belief in Burma that contact with women’s panties strips a fighter of his strength. Yes, you read that correctly. Burma’s women have been victims of sexual violence and rape as weapons of war of the military junta for over 20 years. Now the body parts...