Why YOU should care about Burma
- Posted by Beth on September 29th, 2007 filed in General, International, Petitions, Politics, Support this, UN
Is this thing on? Eh, didn’t think so.
Here, do something useful.
Read this. Reports from inside Burma.
For dozens of years, the international community has been arguing over how it should reform the United Nations so that it can better secure civic and human dignity in the face of conflicts such as those now taking place in Burma or Darfur, Sudan. It is not the innocent victims of repression who are losing their dignity, but rather the international community, whose failure to act means watching helplessly as the victims are consigned to their fate.
The world’s dictators, of course, know exactly what to make of the international community’s failure of will and inability to coordinate effective measures. How else can they explain it than as a complete confirmation of the status quo and of their own ability to act with impunity?
The UN is once again showing how useless it is. Why should the world’s dictators (ahem, Ahmadinejad?) see it any other way? If the “international community” can’t be arsed to support a peaceful resistance that poses no potential threat to anyone, why would the despots over traditionally unstable populations (who could themselves be seen as a potential threat to our interests) see anything but impotence and fear on our part?
The Burmese monks (quite unlike the world’s imams and ayatollahs) aren’t calling for death to America, death to Israel, after all. The UN may not care, but WE should.
[UPDATE, 1 October 07: Read SeeDubya's take along the same lines, only said better.]
More Information
Burma Campaign UK :
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/
US Campaign for Burma:
http://www.uscampaignforburma.org
Human Rights Watch, Burma:
http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=burma
Free Burma Rangers:
http://www.freeburmarangers.org/
The Irrawaddy:
http://www.irrawaddy.org/
Canadian Friends of Burma:
http://www.cfob.org/
Support the Monks’ Protest in Burma (Facebook Group)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24957770200
Democratic Voice of Burma:
http://www.dvb.no/
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Pages:
http://www.dassk.com/
National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (government-in-exile) website:
http://www.ncgub.net/
Blogs (I haven’t checked all these yet to see if they’re all in English, but some are):
http://myochitmyanmar.blogspot.com/
http://mmedwatch.blogspot.com/
http://www.myitzima.co.cc/
http://kadaung.blogspot.com/
http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/
http://hittaing.org/
http://khitpyaing.org/
http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/
http://myatlone.blogspot.com/
http://www.rfa.org/burmese/
http://redo8888.com/
http://tharkinwe.blogspot.com
http://publicenemies.blogspot.com/
http://www.narinjara.com/burmese.ASP
http://www.burmatoday.net/
http://www.yoma3.org/
http://thanshwe-hunter.blogspot.com/
http://yekyawaung.blogspot.com/
http://phyuphyuthin.blogspot.com/
http://maydar-wii.blogspot.com/
http://maynyane.blogspot.com/
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