Opulent state wedding draws gasps in poor Myanmar

A video of an extravagant wedding for the daughter of Myanmar's military leader has stoked criticism about the lifestyles of members of the ruling junta in the impoverished country.

The leaked video shows Thandar Shwe, the daughter of junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe, wearing a staggering collection of diamond encrusted jewelry and extravagant clothing.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Opulent
• state
• wedding
• draws
• gasps
• in
• poor
• Myanmar

[meme645]

she looks as if she feels like a princess. a princess wearing stolen clothes and jewelry, feeding her guests with stolen food, receiving stolen gifts. all stolen from the poor of her country. these people should learn from history: all autocrats have died "beautiful" deaths.

[snikysnacky]

Revenge the death of Pado Mahn Shar!

Death to General Than Shwe and all his generals!

Long Live Burma!

[topolm]

90% of Myanmar's wealth is in that wedding reception

[xxxdieselyyy]

@xxxdieselyyy --------2--------->Even in India if u look at rich industrialists weddings, some r even more opulent than this. Yet those workers who make those industrialists rich r lucky if they make even 1 USD a day. But then, in that case we say "life's not fair, factory owner worked very hard 4 his success bla bla so its ok" and we accept it as human nature, but when it comes to junta, the SAME human nature is unacceptable.

I am lost.

Foolish humans.........

[xxxdieselyyy]

WHAT THE SKULL FUCKING SHIT, STFU CNN......

This just shows that people care more for their immediate family than they care about their comrades and fellow humans.

Even in USA, India, UK etc., people do their best to provide for their children, even if it cost 40,000 USD a year.... but when a stranger fellow human comes and asks for just 20 dollars worth, how many will willingly part with it? That is human empathy 4 u.

[usqueersdotcom]

Thank you for the explanation about the barriers of jewel necklaces and the token payments from the bride as she progresses through the line of the blockade of the wedding bed.

It is the same example set by the upper class less than 1% of the U.S., which is stealing all available cash from everywhere, even Myanmar, just as they've been planning and executing for years, but never on this scale before.

The differences are extreme of course between "poor" in the U.S. and "poor" in Myanmar.

[anthony0415]

Fuck Than Shwe's Family and the Junta government

[htoopyaeaung22]

HAY UN PLEAS HELP US THX

[nimitzclass]

The person who leaked this video to the CNN must be dead by now if he's still in Burma. Count the grieving Karen tribe mother too. The freaking stupid minister of misinformation should just die. Than Shwe and his cronies are totally shameless. Let's see if they can carry all those diamonds into the grave with them and if they do, let's see what good will they get out of them.