The world is outraged. Maybe
Americans don't know what Myanmar is, but people everywhere must be sickened by
the news coming from Southeast Asia (via
Drudge:
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed...
The 42-year-old chief of military intelligence in Rangoon's northern region, added: "I decided to desert when I was ordered to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks onto trucks. "They were to be killed and their bodies dumped deep inside the jungle. I refused to participate in this."
This is a test of the mandate of the United Nations. If there were ever a crisis that the UN was built to deal with, this is it. Get to it!
2 comments:
/me predicts US/UN will do nothing about it. (very unfortunately)
The Bush administration has already imposed stricter sanctions (see below: http://globalreview.blogspot.com/2007/09/bush-legacy.html), but invading a Southeast Asian country seems well beyond what political will in this country could handle right now, so I don't predict that will happen - even if a Khmer Rouge-esque genocide takes place.
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