On May 10, 12:04 pm, James Of Tucson <james0tuc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 10, 2:08 pm, Jedi <transcend_i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Millions of humans should not be made to die from starvation and
> > disease and suffer from lack of shelter, due to the greed of the few.
>
> I agree.
>
> It does not change the fact that Burma (Myanmar) is governed by a
> military regime that
> will greatly benefit from large numbers of deaths in the Delta.
>
> I don't know what you propose to do about it.
> The time to fix this was 1962, when the world stood by and allowed a
> democratic
> nation to be taken over by a military coup. We picked up a torch to
> try to prevent Vietnam
> from being taken over by communists. Why did we allow Burma to be
> taken over by a socialist junta?
>
> I agree that what is being done in Burma is tragic and criminal.
>
> But I don't have any ideas to solve the problem. Why haven't UN
> resolutions already been passed allowing the government leaders in
> Myanmar to be arrested and charged with human rights crimes? And I
> don't mean "since the storm" I mean "since 1962."
>
> All of a sudden people care about Burma. That is sad and tragic in
> and of itself. It reminds me of talking about the Taliban in 94 and
> 95, and realizing that nobody knew at all what I was talking about.
> I've been complaining about Burma/Myanmar since the 60s, not since
> last week. They will recover from the storm. They might not recover
> from the coup.
The problem goes back even further to 1948. India was prevented from
doing good in the region due to being weakened by its partition into
East and West Pakistan by the British. Had India remained whole there
would not be any military dictator****ps in the area.
