Aung San Suu Kyi is another victim of the junta and the anti-sanctions and therefore pro-junta(who else will benefit most from lifted sanctions?)lobby mentioned in the article "Lay off the Lady" in the Irrawaddy, commenting on an article in the Economist.
Yettaw is also another victim of circumstance.
So are all the political prisoners and all the people of Burma.
To blame them is like blaming the birds and trees and everything else blown away by the storm, for the storm itself.
It's the junta who made Burma what it is, and is holding up progress, nothing else.
Kyi May Kaung
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.
USIP warns of scam centers on Burma-Thai border + KNU blames "allies" BGF for loss of Myawaddy (police station)--
KNU blames Border Guard Force for loss of Myawaddy (police station) to junta forces-- 2 consecutive articles in Irrawaddy. https://www.irr...
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The maker of this replica seems to have assumed, anomalously, that the corner towers were in the Banteay Srei style -- visually, as you can ...
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