I just posted photos to Facebook of a new water delivery system set up by Partners Relief and Development and had this thought: while the Burma regime lies to the world about helping the ethnic people and wanting democracy for them, Partners reaches out and improves/saves the lives they try to end. Do you know who pays the bills for the regime’s sustained campaigns of oppression and ethnic cleansing? You, if you are a tax payer.
The generals are having a sweet time this year as western powers forgive debt to the tune of billions
You want democracy? We will give you democracy, but you will have to wait a few years. In the meantime, here’s a little gift from Thein Sein, bought with foreign aid.
and grant “aid” to the tune of more billions in order to “encourage” the regime for steps taken towards democracy and an open society. While the generals are getting patted on the back, their colonels are killing innocent people, taking their land and livelihood, and continuing to brutally violate the wonderful people of Burma.
The same failed foreign policy is responsible for keeping the major aid organizations away from the heat of suffering today because they also depend on the funds controlled by the nations who are reaching out in friendship to the generals. Aid money from governments is not charity, it is diplomacy and organizations that depend of State funding are often co opted by governments into the foreign policy malaise.
A general feeling of anger simmers in me today thinking about how unjust the world is, specifically in Burma. It is wrong that the generals and even Thein Sein (President) can build golf courses on confiscated land and buy diamond studded wedding dresses for their daughters while they violently abuse a nation of beautiful people and lie to the outside world about it. Worse still, the outside world believes them.
God, when will it end?
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An interesting article of the helping world outside Burma, while the burmese Govern
ment is violating their Ethnic People.
Sitting in Burma while reading this. For sure, some people are getting very rich from all the foreign investments and the rapid changes. Some things are getting better too. But this is not the case in some of the ethnic areas, Especially not in Arakan state.