Comments:Hundreds of monks arrested in monastery raids; continue protests

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When the government kills and tortures monks en mass, you know they are bad. Contralya 15:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

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Russia and China always support the despotic and oppressive regimes in the world yet they get a free pass when it comes to criticism of their foreign policy. I expect there will be no difference when it comes to them sitting by quietly while Myanmar goes about killing monks. Of course both Russia and China see acts like this as legitimate domestic politics.

Rediculous

Honestly. These are PEACEFUL protests people! These monks do not deserve in any way shape or form the treatment they are receiving. Again peaceful...I mean seriously what point is there for arresting them, let alone the beatings reported yesterday. Where is our free speech? Where are our opinions? We cannot stand to let this happen anymore. It's time that we band together and stop this before it's too late.

Kittieponcho 18:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Kittieponcho

Simple

This is pretty simple, Buddhist monks are peace-loving and exceedingly tolerant. I was told a story of a temple in Thailand where wasps built a nest and monks were getting stung during prayers. Not one of the monks would raise a hand to destroy the nest. The extent of protests here is as significant as the Catholic Church declaring the Italian government's actions evil. Yet, no sanctions. I haven't a clue why Russia would take this stance, but China has Tibet to consider and doesn't want to consider governments being ostracised for interfering in religion. Remember they kidnapped the Panchai Lama and the situation is so nuts that the Dali Lama has said he will not be reincarnated within Tibet. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Condemnation not enough?

While international law governs the extent to which foreign countries can intervene, it simply seems unjust morally and philosophically that words of condemnation and trade implications are the best support developed nations can offer. I suppose the real question is what will come of the UN delegation sent to engage the junta in talks. I highly doubt much will come of the talks, the only solution I see is direct action against the junta through force. Theonlysilentbob 19:27, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Funny thing is, take the same number of troops as the US has deployed in Iraq, take out the Myanmar Junta and upper army ranks, and the people would be *delighted* to vote in free and fair elections. You could probably be down to a token troop deployment in less than three months while you hammered out a constitution and let people start to re-form political affiliations. However it won't happen. The only people who can free the Burmese are themselves. I don't give them good odds, but I wish them all the luck in the world. If I see any superpower leaders around I'll kick them in the shins and tell them to help here - where there isn't any oil. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 21:37, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Forget foreign military - it's too bad we just can't airdrop M16s, ammo, and OLPCs with sat modems. Hand the people of Burma their 1st and 2nd amendment rights in a way their government can't revoke. Heck, just the OLPCs with unblockable access to the internet would be a step up. Crazyeddie 03:39, 29 September 2007 (UTC)