Friday, October 12, 2012

Cartoon- Is Burma really ready for another Nobel Peace Prize?

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/16293 Not with major ethic conflicts and war in the west and northeast in a country the area of Texas, but with much less flat land, not to mention the other human rights abuses 1. mass land grabs from farmers. 2. no protection for workers' rights 3. over 200 political prisoners still in jail 4. no systemic reforms 5. destroyed environment 6. army incorporated still owns everything. 7. ethnic conflict in Arakan 8. civil war in Kachin State. kmk

Summing up for today--It means you and I can make a difference as ordinary citizens and consumers.

In the mid 1990s my beautiful friend said she'd given up (with respect to Burma/Myanmar)--doing it alone was not going to work. I asked...