Comment on Ko Ko Thett's The Cost of Privatization and Crony Capitalism in Burma -

The Run Down System with totalitarianism and centralization that I described, theorized about so long ago in my doctoral dissertation 1994. See University of Pennsylvania dissertations on line at Penn Commons.

Now the -- has risen to the top due to natural gas and other export earnings.

This "privatization" is as much a sham as the "elections."

REAL political reform has to go in tandem with real economic reform, which has to be system wide, not just raising fuel prices as in 2007. We know what happened then.

A French style revolution? -- Here is quote from my political science professor at Penn who chaired my thesis committee.

"You think the masses will rise? People are so poor and malnourished they can't even stand, let alone march."

Many have walked out.

This said in 90s.

Ko Ko Thett has given us a sense of how it is in Burma/Rangoon.

Thank you.

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)