Word: kyaw
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...still the Public Enemy No. 1. Their response to the cyclone has nakedly shown to the world the extent of their greed and stupidity. One can only hope that the soldiers serving underneath these thugs will at some point say, for the good of the country, Enough is enough. Kyaw Kyaw, Penang, Malaysia...
...military dictators; they are still Public Enemy No. 1. Their response to the cyclone has nakedly displayed the extent of their greed and stupidity. One can only hope that the soldiers serving under these thugs will at some point say, for the good of the country, Enough is enough. Kyaw Kyaw, Penang, Malaysia...
...Iran and North Korea gave me an idea: perhaps Obama could visit Burma and persuade General Than Shwe to accept full-scale international aid [May 26]. This would be a good warm-up exercise and would give Obama a taste of negotiating with a stubborn, psychopathic dictator. Ohn Kyaw, Withcott, Queensland...
Some are involved already. Celebrated actor Kyaw Thu, who was jailed for a month for joining last September's demonstrations, runs the Free Funeral Services Society, a private charity offering free cremations for the poor. It is now operating its own relief effort, with volunteers at its Rangoon headquarters loading up delta-bound trucks with donated goods...
...Kyaw Mya, the ex-soldier, and tens of thousands like him await basic supplies. Yet the day before, Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, who is overseeing Burma's relief effort, "presented 20 sets of TV, 10 DVD players, and 10 satellite receivers" to entertain storm victims elsewhere in the delta, reported the junta newspaper The New Light of Myanmar. "The government is not coming," summarizes Kyaw Mya. "Foreign countries are not coming...