during which she claimed to see "change in Burma".
Left on website - 10-29-2011
"I admire Emma Thompson tremendously as an actor and activist etc.
But in this case she is MISTAKEN -
she has fallen into the trap of speaking for a non-profit which needs to be on the right side of the junta to continue in-country operations.
The so-called change is only a media whitewash so the junta can get western sanctions lifted.
Ms. Thompson needs to look at things deeper than one "fact-finding" trip sponsored by one non-profit organisation.
Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)"
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.
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