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!
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:
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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