I have been following news from Burma. It was 2 years ago that I heard the song " unplayed piano". Damine Rice dedicated this piece to Burma,its people and Aung San Suu Kyi. She won the Nobel peace prize in 1991 for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. In 1990, despite detention of Suu Kyi,National League for Democracy party,NLD, won election with 82% of parliamentary seats. The dictator regime refused to recognise results.
Monks have been protesting against the tyrant government and now people are getting killed. It is sad to see there are many countries in the world are run by dictators who do not care about anything but their power!
Check these out, US campaign for Burma , Burma compaign UK.
2 comments:
Bravo for this post.
A good friend of mine in the UK is a Southeast Asian scholar and his focus is Burma. I'm constantly amazed at how little our media (the American) reports on any of the atrocities taking place.
That's why I pay a little extra to get BBC world on my cable.
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