Sunday, November 11, 2007

Burma -- "Words have escaped" -- John Pilger.

Ceramic plate decorated with some Burmese alphabets -- art work and photograph copyright Kyi May Kaung.

http://mostlywater.org/hypocrites_amp_burma

"The young monks are quiet in their cells, or they are dead. But words have escaped." John Pilger.

Definitely the most beautiful and thoughtful piece written so far about Burma.

Wow--Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor in Chief of The Atlantic--fromWikipedia

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