burma...hang head in shame...

[suzycreamcheese]

david milliband ... could not answer pertinent questions on situation. newsnight lastnight..will get back to us on a website later wtf

all the arm dealers sellers and nations who sold to regime who are poised to use them, who made money from this despotic situation

all the western powerful leaders who spout rhetoric on democracy ..but do nothing when it really matters cause it doesnt matter to them

even though it chokes me to say it it was george bush who did announce sanctions..

the world as we sit by and watch complicit in the agony and poverty of a peaceful nation persecuted and tortured and starved on daily basis ..

rant over
well for me at least, thank you

It's truly breaking my heart. The people in burma are so brave, they are sacrificing so much.

there is a group on facebook you might be interested in here

if you scroll right down the page you will find lots of links of interest

We heeard about one of the incidents in college today, as one of our lecturers is a bit of an authority on Thai/Burmese Bhuddism, and has links in the counrty.

Apparantly in one of the monasteries the "riot police" (who appear to be basically street thugs recruited very recently and armed by the government) they lined up 200 monks, stripped and tortured the head monk and bludgeoned him to death and then killed all the monks by smashing their heads off the wall. 10 survived by hiding and had got out with this info.

In the meantime more 'riot police' charged the crowd outside with bayonets and then fired into the crowd.

It just makes me sick - and like you are all saying, we were really quick to get into Afghanistan and Iraq, but because they dont really 'matter' to us in Burma, we're doing nothing.