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2007-10-01 Southeast Asia

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-01 09:04|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I must've missed it. Where's the outcry, marches, protests, etc. over the harsh supression of dissent in Burma?

Where's Columbia University when you need them?

Posted by Bobby 2007-10-01 09:20|| 2007-10-01 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Especially when the monks' whole strategy was:

1) intentionally protest, knowing that the junta will respond
2) get smacked down
3) army units disgusted that the junta attacked monks - revolt
4) army does all the fighting and dying, overthrows junta, monks & suu kyi collect all the credit.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-01 10:45|| 2007-10-01 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 ah, but in this case the "brave" soldiers were simply murderers and the young monks,martyrs. Pretty typical if you ascribe to the doctrine that a military is essential.

Posted by Sleath Gonque2433 2007-10-01 11:03|| 2007-10-01 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 g: Especially when the monks' whole strategy was:

1) intentionally protest, knowing that the junta will respond
2) get smacked down
3) army units disgusted that the junta attacked monks - revolt
4) army does all the fighting and dying, overthrows junta, monks & suu kyi collect all the credit.

This strategy generally doesn't work unless the dictatorship is a US ally and is more or less US-influenced. Elsewhere, an armed revolt is usually necessary. In those places, Gandhi-like demonstrations are a waste of good men. At the same time, the crushing of such initiatives are a pre-condition for the realization that the existing dictatorship will have to be killed to the last man for its oppression to be lifted.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-10-01 12:34|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-10-01 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I have been keeping my 'hug your enemy, Ghandi was right' friends informed of these happenings (since this news isn't on the Daily Show or MSM). As their champion of peace mascot, the Buddhist monk, is slaughtered without hesitation I expect to see a change of their basic presumption of paficism versus evil. One has already come around...

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-10-01 12:48|| 2007-10-01 12:48|| Front Page Top

#6 ghandi's strategy worked well enough with the brits, even the colonial brits who had just fought WWII, but I really doubted it would have worked with, say, nazi Germany, to keep an european example, exactly like uncle Joe would have solved the paleostinian issue in about a month (or less). Strategies that need your adversary to be humane have a fatal flaw.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-01 12:59|| 2007-10-01 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 "Strategies that need your adversary to be humane have a fatal flaw."

Literally.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-01 13:04|| 2007-10-01 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Ain't that the truth.
Third World hellhole military government with lots of guns in a country the rest of the world pays little or no attention to vs. little bald guys in dresses with no guns?
Ya don't have to be psychic to see which way this was gonna turn out...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-01 13:33|| 2007-10-01 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Just in time for volcanic eruption in the Red Sea and other events - D *** NGED "CHUCK" TV SHOW! Good MADONNA FANS > know as wid the Red Sea eruption, Burma will upset the local status quo, TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE USA-WEST , i.e. INTENSIFIED/ESCALATORY STRATEGIC DENIAL OF US MILPOL ACCESS AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-01 20:16|| 2007-10-01 20:16|| Front Page Top

#10 At the same time, the crushing of such initiatives are a pre-condition for the realization that the existing dictatorship will have to be killed to the last man for its oppression to be lifted.

Assuming that the 9-11 atrocity was a "crushing of such initiatives" for us, when do we proceed to the subsequent phase?

Strategies that need your adversary to be humane have a fatal flaw.

We need to make Islam's reliance upon our humanity fatal.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-01 21:05|| 2007-10-01 21:05|| Front Page Top

#11 FREEREPUBLIC > VANITY: QUESTION ABOUT SEISMIC ACTIVITY. What does it mean? All-Around/
encompassing answer - It means God exists. It means God is showing his Hand in the affairs of mortal Nations + common Humanity, AND NOT ALWAYS WITH THE SAME "SIGN(S)" [See RED SEA/YEMEN ERUPTION]. *FR POSTER > RICHTER SCALE > at 9.0-magn plus, undulating gound waves are visible to naked eye [See Guam -1993 Quake].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-01 21:21|| 2007-10-01 21:21|| Front Page Top

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