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Headlines : Civil LibertiesTrue Burma Death Toll May Never Be Known
The junta showed a subtle and malignant cunning, and then moved against the monks. For a week and a half, the monks had been on the streets of Rangoon in their tens of thousands, and their angry calm gave courage to the people around them.
But overnight, they were beaten, shot and arrested, and locked in their monasteries. Handfuls of them emerged yesterday – two or three brave individuals, a dozen at most – but nothing to approach the mass marches of the previous nine days. Everyone felt their absence.
[Posted By Dilated_Rebel]Republished from Truthout
A crowd of around 3,000 people, with six monks at the front, faced the riot police and soldiers across barbed wire.
Beyond them shone the great gold dome of the Sule Pagoda. When three trucks of soldiers drew up the crowd began to run.
Seconds later, without warning, there were several cracks of automatic gunfire.
A Japanese man carrying a camera fell to the ground, grimacing in pain.
A few minutes later the soldiers removed his limp body. It took six of them to do so.
Many people have been shot in Rangoon yesterday and the true death toll may never be known.
Japan later confirmed that a journalist, Kenji Nagai, 50, had been killed.
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What we’d like to see now are satellite images from our wonderful US government that cares so much about human rights — and other people’s alleged nuclear weapons.
Everyone turn to the Whitehouse now and say, “come on, George, we know you can do it . . .”
So for instance, here’s an image, from January 2006, of The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz
Show us what’s in that football field, George.
Show us which side you’re really on.
Now that I think about it, if you need to justify costs to some mucky muck somewhere,
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In the last ten years, the military regime has destroyed 3,000 villages in eastern Burma, . . . just to put that in context, that’s twice as many villages as have been destroyed in Darfur. You have a million-and-a-half refugees fleeing out of the region into neighboring countries and Thailand. The regime has recruited more child soldiers than any other country in the world, and they’re using forced labor and rape as weapons of war.
Here’s what the map looks like :
Keyword Karen (that brown part) — you should be able to pick up a football field in Rangoon with the same footprint. One stop shopping. Genocide in Burma, let’s get a closer look.
I think we can see that satellite imagery would definitely be useful. And where the hell is Mia. What’s the matter, Mia? Come on Mia, how about just a press release? Surely you can afford to fly to Thailand and get a photoshoot with starving diseased Burmese refugees.
I have to admit that I looked at the Google “Genocide in Darfur” presentation and I couldn’t even find an excuse for a satellite image — after going through all that trouble to install Google Earth. What a waste.
If anyone had more luck than I did, please share.
Please note that the Truthout piece is actually pulled from the UK’s Telegraph. It’s a conservative mouthpiece — “conservative” is a euphemism for “corporate” — as is “liberal”.
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The Daily Telegraph is owned by the Barclay brothers. Until January 2004 the newspaper group was controlled by Canadian businessman, Conrad, Lord Black. Black, through his holding company Ravelston Corporation, owned Hollinger Inc. which in turn owns 30% of Hollinger International and, under a deal masterminded by Andrew Knight through which Black bought the newspaper group in 1986, owns 78% of the voting rights. Hollinger Inc. also owns the liberal Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and conservative publications such as The Spectator.
On 18 January 2004, Black was dismissed as chairman of the Hollinger International board over allegations of financial wrongdoing.
The Barclay brothers have very substantial business interests primarily in media, retail and property. The Sunday Times Rich list of 2007 estimated their wealth at £1.8 billion. They have earned a reputation for avoiding publicity, and are often described as reclusive.
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So that explains why they’re beating the japanese cameraman with a dead horse. They don’t really have anything else they can politically mention.
All of Truthout’s coverage has been coming from Corporate News Outlets. So that’s bizarre. Maybe just lazy?