Life under Myanmar's military government - 18 Sep 07

Hundreds of Buddhist monks have taken to the streets in Myanmar, in an open display of anger at the country's military government.

Al Jazeera has managed to smuggle secretly-filmed pictures out of Myanmar showing the reality of life there.

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[noolympics]

No more economic sanction to Burma!

Provide Burmese civilians arms to fight against the EVIL Burmese dictator and the Chinese communists.

Support Free Burma Rangers!

[thai1959]

Evil tyrants can only rule when good men do nothing.Sometimes the peasants have to storm the castle.They need arms and will to fight tyanny and win back there country.

[anitalianmexican]

where did you get this from

[1408alan]

@oscarsamadhi The only evil I see here is that perpetrated by the brutal and greedy Burmese generals in their pursuit of personal wealth and power, and for whom human life means absolutely nothing at all. These human swine oversee a system that rape, kills, and tortures its people at will. It is, with the exception of North Korea, the nastiest regime on earth. While the Burmese people suffer one of the lowest levels of health spending per head, the generals and their cronies are millionaires.

[southsudanvoice]

free Mynamar

[xxxdieselyyy]

@jamrock1ful --------->my country (India) experienced similar sanctions in 1970s under Indra Gandhi rule. But during those times, I recollect people being actually MORE "nationalist" but in other examples, sanctions trick worked in places like Allende's Chile.

I guess sanctions is a white collar nuclear bomb? 

[xxxdieselyyy]

@jamrock1ful --------->Purpose of sanctions is to starve off the people so that they get bitter, frustrated and incite more revolts against the government. This would weaken the hold on the govt. By placing sanctions u r creating hardship for a people. And this hardship means people are less likely to hold those truly voluntary "Than Shwe u r an economic genius" song....and are gonna be more stressed out at govt.

Sanctions are UN tactics of weakening an "undesirable" regime vs open force.

[xxxdieselyyy]

@noolympics -------Support Free Burma Rangers!--------->So Western world and NLD politicians can fuck Myanmar up instead of Junta military officials And Chinese?

[jamrock1ful]

MMMMMM- I wonder how bad poverty is for the masses of Arabs in Saudi Arabia!? How will sanction improve the masses of Myanmar's people if the goal is to penalizing the leader ship for the severing of there people!!?? Last i checked the Myanmar leadership are living quite comfortably. So how is this bettering the lives of the masses of the Myanmar people? If any thing this is hurting the victims of the regime?

[david052856]

@26desk are you fuckin stupid.......

republicans have ruined this whole counrty and spent 3.2 trillion dollars on blowing bullshit up in Iraq. STFU with your hill billy bullshit.

[26desk]

Obama and the Democrats in America want to disarm all Americans (except their own bodyguards and their military) so Americans who disagree with their policies can then be shot dead in the streets like citizens are brutalized all over the world by their corrupt and brutal dictatorships. Never vote for a Democrat, they are "Enemy Within". Never.