Lessons from Myanmar
May 10th, 2008 at 1:27 am (General, National Politics, International Politics)
contributed by Ryan Maboloc
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo should be happy that the most insensitive and the most stupid government in the world exists not in the Philippines but in Myanmar.
The decision of the military junta in a country of 47 million impoverished people defies all laws of logic. It renders the meaning of human dignity useless and buries the hope of the Burmese people more than a thousand miles beneath the core of the earth.
While tens of thousands are dead and a million people are homeless and are at-risk of losing their lives from diseases, the junta chose to continue with holding a constitutional referendum, which reports say guarantees a quarter of parliamentary seats to the military. “It is not important”, claims one man, who says that he is more concerned about where he will get his next meal.
