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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Invading Myanmar?

I read in an article in the NY Times a disturbing theory. Or maybe it's just me, I don't know...

I'm not quoting the person who wrote the article for lack of interest

But his / her theory was that an invasion of Myanmar was long overdue and that now would be the perfect time, considering the junta refuses most international help, causing 1000s of deaths that could have been avoided.

Several questions arise though

1) Good timing? really? a little reminder that the population in Irak (although, granted, they got rid of a mean mean dictator) does not seem to have wealthy florishing lives, to say the least. Imagine the same situation in Myanmar, I don't think that it's a good idea to bomb a village because the junta has positions over there when people are dying for lack of food, water, safety etc etc etc. And I don't believe in what they call surgical bombing, that never worked, really.

2) Are we feeling a bit guilty?
No one except for the UN (whom nobody lsitens to anyways...) really cared about Burma until now. The junta has been governing the country since 1990, but we let the situation degrade and focused on other parts of the workd that were maybe more lucrative? and now we're talking about invading? That will not resuscitate the hundreds of thousand of death due to the regime or to the cyclon. Sorry about you big powerful countries feeling guilty.

3) what now? are we sending planes and submarines? or are we leaving qualified entities the task of negotiating for a peaceful acceptance of international help by the Junta?

Ban Ki Moon, sadly, you have to speak louder... they're not listening.

Here are some useful links:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/burmaaidlinks.html

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