Shadowy dictator in Naypyidaw (King's Royal City) from Internet
My comment left on Irrawaddy site 1-7-2010.
This is a beautifully written piece, poetic in its sadness.
And you have not even touched on the mass murder that took place in the Nepalese royal family some years ago.
The sight of all the white-draped royal corpses the next day is also a poetic metaphor that says it all, just like the pariah dogs.
If you think of it, why should Burma and Nepal, so small geographically, be "ungovernable?"
Why then is the USA "governable" when Burma is always said to be only the area of Texas?
This has been the intellectual puzzle of my adult life, which I have tried to answer with my own theory about run down systems as explicated in my doctoral thesis.
Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
