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I'd think that would be tough, considering the current government in Myanmar. The US government doesn't even know how many Iraqis died in our invasion.. and we're the best country in the entire universe and world!AssKissinger wrote:I think the coverage of this has been shitty. They need to get the real scoop on how many monks have been murdered.
The US government doesn't even know how many Iraqis died in our invasion
That's what iReport is for.. ]do[/I] feel personal reporting on the ground will revolutionize the media industry.. But the 'editors' are still the huge media companies; the general population still prefers to be spoon-fed, and the feeders are still the filters..AssKissinger wrote:.. I don't want to hear that they'll get killed if they try to go there. Fuck their excuses. Find a way!
AssKissinger wrote:.. They just don't want to say
AssKissinger wrote:This is such crushing and devastating news I can barely stand to read about it.
Catoneinutica wrote:Seriously, when was there a large-scale demonstration in Japan last? In the 1960s?
Tommybar wrote:Only a 100,000 "perverted dudes"/dudettes at this one held in July.
Tommybar wrote:
Only a 100,000 "perverted dudes"/dudettes at this one held in July.
halfnip wrote:Ahhh...That must be right outside the base in Yokosuka.
L S wrote: (Note that China and Russia vetoed a Jan resolution demanding better human rights and less oppression).
(1VB)freels wrote:That is My ship that they are protesting!!!!!!:rolleyes:
[SIZE="5"]When the military and police moved to crush the demonstrators, they first went after the monks. Under cover of darkness, say several sources who did not want their names used, doors of monasteries were kicked in and the monks around Shwedagon, including some nuns, were bundled onto trucks and taken away. When asked where the monks had gone, one 30-year-old man who was at Shwedagon in the early days of the protests puts his wrists together in the sign of locked handcuffs[/SIZE]
<More>[B]BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Hundreds of villagers living on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, marched in support of the country's military junta Saturday after being threatened with steep fines if they did not, a political activist leader hiding in Yangon told CNN by phone.
Nilar Thein -- a key leader in the Myanmar-based group '88 Generation -- said residents of Shwe Pyi Thar village carried pro-regime placards after junta officials on Friday demanded at least one person from each household march in the government's rally. Junta officials also approached local factories and demanded they provide 50 workers.
According to the report, which CNN cannot independently verify, those who refused to march would be forced to pay steep fines.
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Myanmar's state-controlled media said Sunday that a Japanese journalist, killed during a crackdown on recent pro-democracy protests, was to blame for his own death because he put himself in harm's way..."This was an accident. The journalist was not deliberately targeted," said an editorial in The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a junta mouthpiece. "The fact that the Japanese journalist was among the protesters amounts to inviting danger." The editorial also said Nagai had entered Myanmar on a tourist visa. "He should have come in with a journalist visa, since he was a journalist," it said. "If he had behaved like a tourist he would not have faced this tragic end"...more...
"If he had behaved like a tourist he would not have faced this tragic end"
AssKissinger wrote:Too bad the UN is fucking worthless. Every fucked up shit hole in the world knows that if America won't do anything about it they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Mulboyne wrote:The US has a strong incentive to make the UN look like arseholes by withholding key support because it allows them to lay off the blame for their inadequacies by claiming that the UN can do no better.
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said Tokyo would halt 550 million yen ($4.7 million) in aid following last month's suppression of Buddhist monk-led protests, in which at least 10 people were killed, including a Japanese video journalist.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:The UN is worthless.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:P.S. I'm with AK and gboothe. The UN is worthless.
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