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2006-05-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve 2006-05-23 08:35|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So the ruling Junta of Burma have no economy to speak of, no foriegn relations, no allies, no popular support. Just enemies and paranoid fantasies.

Congrats, wear your crown of shit.

Posted by Omoluque Gralet4660 2006-05-23 13:31|| 2006-05-23 13:31|| Front Page Top

#2 A couple of years ago, 2003-2004, I read a surprisingly positive story (as in "this is the USA we like vs Chimpiebush's one" in a very anti-US mag) about an ex-US Special Forces medic who after his retirement had joined an humanitarian christian group, and helped the Karen fight for survival.

He so smuggled medical supplies and others commodities in the jungle, along with a team of Karen guerilla (though he was apparently unarmed, from what I understood), and helped refugees the best he could.
I also saw a tv documentary about the Karens, same timeframe, in which he was featured.

All this to say that this whole mess is an a particulary sad case of an ethnic/religious (Karens are christian) minority being oppressed, slaughtered, and "culturally genocided" by its own gvt (it's called ethnocide, I think)... in absolute msm silence!

The same public opinion formating elite who swallow the paleo/muslim propaganda hook line and sinker is completely silent about that (and the Darfur ethnic cleansing, and Nigeria "religious strife", and Chyprus ' occupation,...). I think they don't just care, it doesn't suit their agenda, it doesn't even register.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-23 14:02|| 2006-05-23 14:02|| Front Page Top

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