Stop Than Shwe’s crimes against humanity
2009 September 4
As of today more 37,000 refugees have fled across Burma’s northern border into China’s Yunnan provenance. Than Shwe’s military junta has burned villages, destroyed livestock and crops, leaving refugees nothing to return to, or survive on. Reports of rape are common.
In the mean time opposition leader Suu Kyi, detained for more than 14 of the past 20 years, has been sentenced to another 18 months of house arrest (August 11) after being found guilty of breaking the terms of her detention by sheltering the American “intruder,” John Yettaw.
Aung San Suu Kyi has asked us to “Please use your liberty to promote ours.”
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My conservative side wishes I had a rocket launcher. I’d make somebody pay!
I guess Bruce Cockburn wanted a launcher as well, but no one has accused him of being conservative. Perhaps for either leaning, the “psalm” allows the catharsis which then channels the anger into something creative. That’s the possibility anyway…exemplified by Aung San Suu Kie.