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

mammasan
mammasan Posts: 5,656
edited October 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484903

Though it is difficult to confirm, it seems that there are far more deaths then reported by the Myanmar government. It's time that the leading countries in this world start putting pressure on China and India to stop their finacial and military support of this murderous regime.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
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  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    holy fuck, thousands?????????
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/t.php?cl=21210713
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    jlew24asu wrote:
    holy fuck, thousands?????????

    I was reading an article over the weekend where satalite images show that entire villages have been wiped out. One minute they where there the next they where gone. Troops are busting into monastaries in the dead of night and rounding up the monks and hauling them off, by the hundreds. This is panning out to be worse than the 1988 uprisings.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    polaris wrote:
    http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/t.php?cl=21210713

    Polaris thanks for that link.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    mammasan wrote:
    I was reading an article over the weekend where satalite images show that entire villages have been wiped out. One minute they where there the next they where gone. Troops are busting into monastaries in the dead of night and rounding up the monks and hauling them off, by the hundreds. This is panning out to be worse than the 1988 uprisings.

    wow this is amazing. sounds like genocide to me. what a fucked up world we live in.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Here is a link to the story about the razed villages and relocations being carried out by the Myanmar government.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21032458/
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • 810wmb
    810wmb Posts: 849
    but when saddam did this crap it was ok, right?
    i'm the meat, yer not...signed Capt Asshat
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    810wmb wrote:
    but when saddam did this crap it was ok, right?

    It was OK until we decided the oil he sits on needed a U.S. babysitter.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    810wmb wrote:
    but when saddam did this crap it was ok, right?

    It's never OK when an oppressive regime kills it's own citizens for simply wanted the right to live in a free society.

    Also this thread is about the tragedy that is unfolding in Burma, not the War in Iraq. If you want to discuss that start your own thread. This is a serious issue and I really don't want people hijacking a thread that is here to inform and turning it into a juvenile pissing match.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    810wmb wrote:
    but when saddam did this crap it was ok, right?


    :)
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • 810wmb
    810wmb Posts: 849
    not a pissing match, it's the same thing, different place...

    i'll take my piss to another thread
    i'm the meat, yer not...signed Capt Asshat
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    810wmb wrote:
    not a pissing match, it's the same thing, different place...

    i'll take my piss to another thread

    So then if it the samething, different place why is our government content with just leveling some more sanctions instead of "Liberating" the people of that country. Why is our government content with letting China, South Korea, India, and Thailand continue there unwavering support of the military junta in Myanmar.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Here is a nice little piece from one of the guys I like to read:

    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2007/09/30/4537856-sun.php
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    810wmb wrote:
    not a pissing match, it's the same thing, different place...

    i'll take my piss to another thread

    we didn't lift a finger to help those people either though. we went to iraq 10 years later and it had nothing to do with genocide.
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    mammasan wrote:
    So then if it the samething, different place why is our government content with just leveling some more sanctions instead of "Liberating" the people of that country. Why is our government content with letting China, South Korea, India, and Thailand continue there unwavering support of the military junta in Myanmar.

    Thank you.
  • 810wmb
    810wmb Posts: 849
    soulsinging - to a degree you are correct......iraq was more about saddam breaking all the resolutions....

    but we can't please all...if we went everywhere this crap happens, we would be everywhere..but when we do, we are the shitty US imposing our will on the people.
    i'm the meat, yer not...signed Capt Asshat
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    mammasan wrote:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484903

    Though it is difficult to confirm, it seems that there are far more deaths then reported by the Myanmar government. It's time that the leading countries in this world start putting pressure on China and India to stop their finacial and military support of this murderous regime.

    oh! :mad: :(

    When I read about them rounding up the monks over the weekend I was terrified this would be the outcome. This just makes me sick to my stomach.
    We have to put pressure on our own governments to pressure China and India. But I fear this will turn out just like Darfur and countless other places where people are murdered by their government. We need someone to come forward and tell us that Burma is rich in some natural resource that these other countries want. I hate to say it but I think that's the only way this will be stopped.
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    810wmb wrote:
    soulsinging - to a degree you are correct......iraq was more about saddam breaking all the resolutions....

    but we can't please all...if we went everywhere this crap happens, we would be everywhere..but when we do, we are the shitty US imposing our will on the people.

    We should never invade a country just to bring democracy. Democracy is not something that can be implemented by force.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Jeanie wrote:
    oh! :mad: :(

    When I read about them rounding up the monks over the weekend I was terrified this would be the outcome. This just makes me sick to my stomach.
    We have to put pressure on our own governments to pressure China and India. But I fear this will turn out just like Darfur and countless other places where people are murdered by their government. We need someone to come forward and tell us that Burma is rich in some natural resource that these other countries want. I hate to say it but I think that's the only way this will be stopped.

    Well unfortunetly Jeanie Myanmar does have natural resources, that is why they are important to India and China. Hence why both nations will not do what is necessary to help bring about reform in that country.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    frig ... wtf is with china?? ... i mean i can understand not ceding taiwan up but in places like tibet ... just let them monks self-rule there ... it's not like they are gonna do shit ...

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