Sunday, August 24, 2008

Burma in the wake of Cyclone Nargis -- video from CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/myanmar.videos/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Scroll down video to about May 2008.

We are approaching the one-year anniversary of The Saffron Revolution in Burma in Sept 2007.

I observe that Burmese crises are becoming closer together and more severe, which makes sense in the light, or rather darkness, of the junta's ratcheted up oppression and the accompanying systemic problems, from infrastructure to bureaucracy to an enormous army to environmental degradation.

Blog text copyright Kyi May Kaung.

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