Comments on: For our neighbours in Burma

by: Ian

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:24:41 +0000

The only way to pressure China into doing anything concrete is to boycott the Olympics and that will never happen. ASEAN’s refusal to do anything based on their ‘we don’t interfere in another country’s affairs’ policy, is precisely why nothing changes. It’s shameful but given that they’ve all oppressed their own people at one time or another, it’s hardly surprising.

by: Ohmiya

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:05:15 +0000

Best wishes, Burma. Let’s hope good comes of this.

Power to the people…

by: Silom Farang

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:19:17 +0000

Burma doesn’t have a single national language like Thailand has, and it is a former British colony. Could this be why they use more English?

Re 400k monks. In times of unemployment and little else to do more boys and men choose the temples.

Let us keep Bush out of this, please?

by: SameSame

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:01:58 +0000

CNN.com does not (at this moment) have anything on their front page about Myanmar. Their headline article is the Phil Spector murder trial (a hollywood celebrity trial). This is shameful, but since probably 90% of Americans have no idea where Myanmar is it’s not shocking.

I thought it interesting that this article shows so many pictures of signs with English on them, such as ‘police line do not cross’ and that the Monks were also carrying signs in English. So the Monks are playing to the cameras, but are those police signs left over from the Viet Nam war or something?

Or is this, as one poster on another site claimed, all the fault of the Evil Bush? (Perhaps he thought Bush has been secretly trading police barricades for drugs or something). Actually, I think that poster’s point was that because they had no oil Bush didn’t care what went on there and so whatever happened was thus his fault.

I am astonished that the country has 400,000 monks. I don’t know how big the population is, but it seems like the ratio must be pretty high.

by: Kevin

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:24:48 +0000

I will be boycotting all Chinese and Russian goods until they help solve the problems in Burma. I urge everyone to do the same thing. Please ask all of your friends to join the boycot. The only thing that can get anything done is hurting the income of countries that prevent peace in Burma.

by: john

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:42:50 +0000

We all need to pray for them.

by: david

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:47:09 +0000

heard the internet is shut down /unable to get pages
source bbc

by: SiamAloha

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:45:15 +0000

The whole world is watching…
Let’s hope we do more than watch so that the innocents may be spared.

by: loris

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:47:26 +0000

The events in Myanmar are saddening, one feels so poweless to do anything about it. I wish the international community could do something . Can it go on forever like that? That’s what juntas are about, crushing freedom. My prayers are with them.

by: Wouter

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:39:17 +0000

I will pray for them tonight, my thoughts are with them.
Om Mani Padme Hum
Peace to all…

Wouter