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So I was watching the news about the crap happening to the Burmese people, and I was thinking about the ongoing **** happening in Africa because of that evil nutcase Mugabee, and I was thinking... the west really has their priorities of whats important in the world screwed up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7017496.stm
I don't know if you've een keeping up with events on Burma, but the images are quite... inspiring. Thousands of monks, marching side by side with the people, because they're fed up of their undemocratic government. We're talking about a government that doesn't even want their media to show that there are protests, a government that will order it's soldiers to fire their guns at crowds of peaceful protestors, a government that killed thousands of student protestors a decade or so before this. The government decided that to quell these protests, they would raid monestarys, arrest hundreds of monks, beat up hundreds, and kill.
These people want to overthrow their government, but they don't have the means to do it.
And just thinking about that made me so angry that we're wasting our time in Iraq. We should never have went to Iraq. Firstly, because there never was any threat of WMDs coming from Iraq. Secondly, because there wasn't really much sign that the people of Iraq wanted us there.
The people of Burma WANT the world to intervene. The people are risking life imprisonment by posting blogs and pictures of the brutality of the regime. At the moment, I don't see any sign of the west or anyone else actively interferring to help these people.
"Every civilised nation has a responsibility to stand up for people suffering under a brutal military regime like the one that has ruled Burma for too long"
US President George W Bush. Nice words. But what is he going to do about it? Probably stretched too thin because of the ridiculous war on terror.
And the Darfur crises, which has been going on for awhile now. But only recently did the UN decide they would send in small handful of peacekeepers. It's not enough.
I think situations like the ones in Burma and Darfur are far more important than the blind and ignorant war on terror. People call the Iran President evil. For what? Because he denies the holocaust? Mugabee is wreaking a holocaust as we speak, he's the one we ought to be bringing down.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7017496.stm
I don't know if you've een keeping up with events on Burma, but the images are quite... inspiring. Thousands of monks, marching side by side with the people, because they're fed up of their undemocratic government. We're talking about a government that doesn't even want their media to show that there are protests, a government that will order it's soldiers to fire their guns at crowds of peaceful protestors, a government that killed thousands of student protestors a decade or so before this. The government decided that to quell these protests, they would raid monestarys, arrest hundreds of monks, beat up hundreds, and kill.
These people want to overthrow their government, but they don't have the means to do it.
And just thinking about that made me so angry that we're wasting our time in Iraq. We should never have went to Iraq. Firstly, because there never was any threat of WMDs coming from Iraq. Secondly, because there wasn't really much sign that the people of Iraq wanted us there.
The people of Burma WANT the world to intervene. The people are risking life imprisonment by posting blogs and pictures of the brutality of the regime. At the moment, I don't see any sign of the west or anyone else actively interferring to help these people.
"Every civilised nation has a responsibility to stand up for people suffering under a brutal military regime like the one that has ruled Burma for too long"
US President George W Bush. Nice words. But what is he going to do about it? Probably stretched too thin because of the ridiculous war on terror.
And the Darfur crises, which has been going on for awhile now. But only recently did the UN decide they would send in small handful of peacekeepers. It's not enough.
I think situations like the ones in Burma and Darfur are far more important than the blind and ignorant war on terror. People call the Iran President evil. For what? Because he denies the holocaust? Mugabee is wreaking a holocaust as we speak, he's the one we ought to be bringing down.
