Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Myanmar Junta says they have law???

Aung San Suu Kyi is supposed to be released this week according to "Myanmar law". Apparently the law says that no one can be held longer than five years without being released or put on trial (she has been under house arrest for longer than 5 years but her house arrest is a little complicated, I will need add a post just about it). I hope she is released but it's hard to know what will happen in a country with no laws. It's pathetic that the regime even says that they have any laws at all. They have been putting people in prison for decades for everything from opposing their rule to just wearing a t-shirt in support of Aung San Suu Kyi's party. For a dictatorship that keeps saying they are in the process of writing their road to democracy, I really don't think we can expect anything from them.

They may be hiding their being a dictatorship inside of Burma, but there is no way they are hiding it from the rest of the free world. Which makes it that much sadder that we are not doing anything. Although, I do wonder what Suu Kyi would think about a military intervention from the outside?? She is a huge advocate of nonviolent resistance, but I just don't see the country changing without force.

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