Word: burma
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...finding visits and economic sanctions but very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed but very little is done. Here's hoping Burma does not become another one. Peter Cole, Condé Ste. Libiaire, France...
...abuse, torture, murder and rob the nation's people at will, as has happened on so many occasions in the past century. Is morality applicable only on a small scale? We get the politicians we deserve, goes the saying. But do the gentle, life-revering Buddhists of Burma and Tibet deserve the thugs who control them? Peter Phillpotts, Matlock, England...
...finding visits and economic sanctions but very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed but very little is done. Here's hoping Burma does not become another one. Peter Cole, CONDÉ STE. LIBIAIRE, FRANCE
...hard-line stance as a high-ranking member of Burma's ruling junta--he refused even to talk to pro-democracy leaders--helped foster the climate that in recent weeks has prompted widespread demonstrations led by Buddhist monks and the arrests of thousands. Prime Minister General Soe Win first impressed his bosses in 1988 when he brutally quashed an uprising at Rangoon University by ordering troops to open fire on protesters. He later earned the moniker "Butcher of Depayin" for masterminding a bloody 2003 attack on democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters...
...said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “Where was her fire? Where was her outrage? This is one seriously messed-up world we’re living in. We’ve got AIDS in Africa, blood for oil in Iraq, and repressed monks in Burma. She didn’t talk about any of that stuff...