http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/asia/04thai.html?th&emc=th
If protesters had closed down Rangoon airport, the army would have staged another crackdown and thousands would have been killed and arrested.
In Thailand, the Thai army did not stage a coup this time. Seemed to support the demonstrators, and so did the king.
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Much to read from the Atlantic--incld--Friday Night Massacre.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/cq-brown-and-friday-night-massacre/681803/
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Famous+Chinese+tenors#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:12005ab7,vid:_d4ap5I_tmk,st:0
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/us-sanctions-myanmar-and-russia-firms-arming-junta.html