Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Continuation of Musharraf and dictators, from my Facebook page -

  • KMK-- Never pretend, and if you are a dictator, don't fool yourself you are loved - I wonder why he went back to Pakistan - amazing.
  • Dana Tusaw He probably tempting fate, hoping that he could salvage what's left of his power and perhaps rise again like the Phoenix.
  • Kyi May Kaung Amazing - as one of charges against him was complicity in the death of Benazir Bhutto, and only he knows what he did/commanded. Strange he would go back where Benazir's widower is in power, when FBI? had already said it was an accident caused by the door hatch of the SUV
  • Dana Tusaw Musharraf's an interesting figure like many other dictators around the world who have fallen off the power pedestal one by one. In a way, I wonder if the countries they ruled were not better with them in charge, as terrible as they were. Now these countries are in such chaos.
  • Kyi May Kaung Ah - that's what they want to "prove" -- that people can't rule themselves - But since dictatorships are like pressure cookers, all held together by the top, then when it blows, it blows - you would not say "it was better" under Stalin if your parents were sent to the concentration camps and you/we were never born - No one can say it is "better" in N. Korea as opposed to S. Korea. Democracy just seems chaotic, that's all. But better chaos than the quiet of the grave.
  • Kyi May Kaung But when power removed from top, things like mafia can come in as they did in Russia.

Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response....