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By: Politics at the Parish Pump » Burma / Myanmar: How Religion helps provide a Basis for Democracy

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:35:28 +0000

[...] by Rev Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney on the subject of Religion and Democracy – and inspired by the pro-Democracy Protests in Myanmar/Burma being spearheaded by Bhuddist Monks, and reported via [...]

By: Humaniform » Burma / Myanmar: How Religion helps provide a Basis for Democracy

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:16:41 +0000

By: Burma / Myanmar: How Religion helps provide a Basis for Democracy | The Wardman Wire

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:06:22 +0000

By: Up North John

Up North John — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:21:38 +0000

To anon and yellercat above,isn’t it possible that you may be neglecting to mention that some of us have blogged and taken “real world actions” also about the disasters in Iraq, Darfur, and elsewhere?

I know I certainly have, and i’m sure other bloggers will have done also. Why shouldn’t we stand in solidarity with those unfortunate enough to live in whatever part of the world has been affected by wars, brutal regimes, etc..?

By: yellerKat

yellerKat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:47:56 +0000

9 dead in foreign country! Goodness, What will we do when it gets close to home; like ummm; Darfur?

NB Must ask PA: Why are Burmese so important? (As opposed to Tibetans, etc)?

Most perplexing.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:30:25 +0000

9 dead today in Burma………… shock fucking horror, I hope that the UK blog community with join also to protest the fact that US forces are investigating an air strike in southern Iraq this week which local police said killed five women and four children, a US military statement said today.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0927/breaking71.htm

By: Up North John

Up North John — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:55:29 +0000

Hi, information on a daily demonstration outside the London Embassy can be found at:

http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/events.php

Also, people are encouraged to write to the embassy (There are links there also to international events to express solidarity with the people of Burma)

Additionally, a very simple, quick way to take action right now. Considering those courageous monks, and their supporters were brave enough to go onto the streets to demonstrate, risking their lives, then I think all of us should visit the following page, and send a message to the EU president:

http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/eu_action.html

Meanwhile the situation in Burma has also prompted me to have a long rant about how so called “freedom and democratic loving people” wilfully ignored the plight of the Burmese people, along with other crimes in the so called “war on terror” at:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=229087059&blogID=313858011&Mytoken=4787943C-C1F5-4B02-94DF673D7310F00860826601

By: Attackcat

Attackcat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:09:31 +0000

Brown should actually do something.

How about sending a couple of battleships and parking them just off the coast to remind the illegitimate military rulers of Burma that other countries have a longer history of talking their language and can do it better when needed?

Might make them think a little before acting.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:01:08 +0000

Yes, after a little reading, the Burma/Myanmar thing is strange to say the least. Myanmar, adopted by SLORC and accepted by the UN but not by the UK and US. Burma it is from now on.

By: Davide Simonetti

Davide Simonetti — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:44:51 +0000

Channel 4 News have published a list of bloggers who are trying to get the latest developments out of Burma. Al Jazeera lists the 3 (not unreasonable) demands that the monks are making. One thing I learned since posting on this is that "Myanmar" is the name given to the country by the vile Junta running it, so I'm sticking with "Burma". More on that here. The Foreign Office website says the same thing.