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Too bad they don't have anything America wants...
2007-09-29, 4:17 PM #1
Because Burma/Myanmar has to fend for theirselves under their own "Reign of Terror".

Some Japenese journalist was killed.

Also, they cut the internet there :hist101:
2007-09-29, 4:23 PM #2
I like how the party responsible for the violence is named the "State Peace and Development Council." Anyone else thinking 1984?
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2007-09-29, 6:24 PM #3
One of the stalwart pro-party government ministers visited Singapore on a state occasion and came back in tears because of how backwards Burma had become. :[
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2007-09-29, 6:40 PM #4
Originally posted by Echoman:
I like how the party responsible for the violence is named the "State Peace and Development Council." Anyone else thinking 1984?


Pshhh. The U.S. Department of War is now the "Department of Defense" so we can "defend" our interests abroad.
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2007-09-29, 7:11 PM #5
Quote:
The next day, other monks later took government officials as hostages in retaliation.


That doesn't seem very Buddha-like to me.
2007-09-29, 7:28 PM #6
i like the whole name change thing, honestly, i had to look the thing up a few days ago because i was WTFing about it
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2007-09-29, 9:11 PM #7
this is some crazy stuff... although i guess not that crazy for that corner of the world.
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2007-09-29, 11:48 PM #8
Coincidentally, you people are still more corrupted than I am! Woo!
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2007-09-29, 11:50 PM #9
Well, I sense i revolt.
2007-09-30, 12:23 AM #10
Originally posted by Anovis:
That doesn't seem very Buddha-like to me.


Yeah, it sounds more like a lie of the propaganda variety, and not just because it seems un-Buddha like.
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2007-09-30, 7:04 AM #11
Originally posted by FastGamerr:
Coincidentally, you people are still more corrupted than I am! Woo!

UK less corrupted then the US? I call shenanigans!
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2007-10-01, 8:54 PM #12
Update.

Monks.

[http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_01/myanmar0110_468x361.jpg]
2007-10-01, 9:20 PM #13
:(

Why do people do these awful things?
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2007-10-01, 9:27 PM #14
Comeon! Someone do something! Revolt or send in UN peacekeepers! ****ING SOMETHING!
2007-10-01, 9:30 PM #15
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
Comeon! Someone do something! Revolt or send in UN peacekeepers! ****ING SOMETHING!


It's a sad fact of Western foreign policy that we don't really care about even the most massive human rights violations unless there's something else at stake.
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2007-10-01, 9:32 PM #16
UN "peacekeepers" prolong conflicts. Or make them worse. At least it makes the UN money, though.
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2007-10-01, 9:40 PM #17
The hairy fellow speaks the truth.
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2007-10-03, 12:36 PM #18
Originally posted by Anovis:
That doesn't seem very Buddha-like to me.


Would it sound better if they took the hostages and tied them to a tree and watch over them for 40 day and nights so they can contemplate the meaning of suffering?
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2007-10-04, 8:05 AM #19
Originally posted by Wookie06:
UN "peacekeepers" prolong conflicts. Or make them worse. At least it makes the UN money, though.

No, they mostly do nothing and let people continue killing each other (see Rwanda or Srebrenica for example)

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