Absence of Burma’s notorious strongman provokes speculation of a power struggle

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Title – Absence of Burma’s notorious strongman provokes speculation of a power struggle
Source – The Independent
Date – 10th May 2008

Remember this face and look into this dog’s eyes, for he is on the cusp of being promoted when history remembers him from his place alongside Ceausescu, General Pinochet and Saddam Hussein and being set sat alongside Pol Pot and Idi Amin on the scale of evil.

He is the current leader of the brutal illegal regime that has ruled Burma and oppressed its people for nearly 50 years. He is the one who sanctions everything that happens in that country from using rape as a weapon of war against the minority ethnic groups, to the shooting of Buddhist monks peacefully protesting on the streets of Rangoon.

That the world believes any form of diplomacy is possible with this man or his ‘government’ is beyond belief; this the dog who consults with a blind soothsayer before making any decision; this the dog that brutally kills not only those that oppose him but also their families; this the dog that had his troops break down the door of the sacred Buddhist monasteries and murder, abduct and imprison monks; and this the dog that will not even answer the telephone calls of the UN Secretary General when he offers to help the 2 million Burmese citizens now believed to be at serious risk of dying as a result not of the cyclone, but directly as a result of the inaction of his ‘government’.

That aid workers who saved tens of thousands of lives after the tsunami of 2004 by acting within hours to help those affected are being turned away or refused visas is simply unbelievable. That they are even required visas is a disgrace, but that the visa office is at this time closed for a 3 day for a bank holiday, is literally incomprehensible.

This dog and his propaganda is fooling no one. The UN and the world should warn him explicitly that failure to act will result him personally being held responsible for every avoidable death, Buddhist leaders should remind him of the sacred lives he is directly responsible for killing and we should go after him and bring him to justice before natural justice gets to him.

The Burmese are devoutly Buddhist; they already widely believe that the cyclone happened because of the raids on Buddhist monasteries in 2007 by the military and the killing of monks. The generals claim to worship within the same religion, but everyone inside and outside Burma know they worship but themselves. Not only are they not Buddhist they are the polar opposite of everything that the Buddhist religion stands for.

There is a time bomb ticking for the people of southern Burma and one ‘man’ has the power to stop it, yet that dog we know is evil, that dog we know has never lost one hour of sleep worrying about anything but his own power, that dog has already killed so many that a hundred more means nothing; that a thousand more means nothing; that ten thousand more means nothing; and most worrying that a million more means nothing.

It may be an odd blog to include, after all surely everyone now knows tourism in Burma is wrong and they should stay away until this dog and his puppies are gone for good. I make no apology for including it, it is a subject that is important for people to read about and the National League for Democracy flag flies proudly outside our offices every day, we can only hope that the NLD are one day allowed to take the power they rightly won at elections in 1990. It seems that this is more urgent than ever now, as I don’t know who else will allow the world to help the Burmese people.
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