What do I know about Burma? well, it's called Myanmar now and for the last 57 years since it's liberation from British rule.
First off: (from Democratic Voice of Burma) a complaint about torture, the irony... it's Burma junta officers torturing former comrades, which give the true play to how torture works. Oddly, it's not really about the last 4 minutes of an action movie and stopping a world busting bomb from going off. Really. It's not.
More Burmese News Below The... what the hell is that thing againg... oh yeah, the flipping fold.
(PS: please impeach any of these sources today if they should be... I'm not familiar with them)
He doesn't mean this.
The SPDC often cloaks itself in the imagery and language of Buddhism when it is politically convenient to do so. In December 2004, a three-day international Buddhist summit was held in the capital, Rangoon [Yangon], attended by over 1,000 Buddhist monks from around the world. The junta's Senior General Than Shwe told the gathering: "We should rid the world of the roots of all evils and sow the seeds of goodwill, tolerance, kindness and altruism for the sake of peace and prosperity."
He means this.
Yet the SPDC has jailed over 1,400 prisoners of conscience, and is waging war against ethnic minorities. The junta stands accused of a catalogue of human rights violations, including systematic use of rape as a weapon of war, forced labour, forced relocation, forced conscription of child soldiers, human minesweepers, torture, arbitrary killings, and the destruction of villages, crops and livestock amounting to crimes against humanity and, in some areas, genocide.
SPDC, that's the ruling party. This excerpt from an article on religious freedom from Forum18, Oslo, Norway in a report by Benedict Rogers, Christian Solidarity Worldwide. If you know anything about "Christian Solidarity Worldwide, I'd love to hear it.
Still, Than Shwe is 72 years old and sometimes described as frail, and the military is said to have a seven point plan to democracy, Myanmar style... and if we've learned one thing it's that there are a lot of styles of "democracy".
So I don't know much, but if history serves someone that knows more, like someone that has been there, will come along and help clarify reality, or sort these sources. If if that person is you I thank you in advance.