Beagle, they haven’t been SLORC since 1997.

That’s ten years dude. Count ‘em.

Latest footage from Yangon — Oct 1, including hidden camera filming checkpoints and the testimony of a pixelated monk :

microdot @ 10/02/07 12:58:15

I just think SLORC suits them. They ditched the name themselves because people were making fun of it. I see no reason to be polite and oblige their wishes.

Here is a download for an arrest list:
http://www.mediafire.com/?24pg4yxnjti (345 names now)

key websites:
http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/

http://worldiswearingred.blogspot.com/

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/

Facebook group, Support the Monks’ protest in Burma

Embassies in Myanmar

http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/

Beagle17 @ 10/02/07 14:13:58

The defection of the general seems to have been confirmed and there is now a flood of sttories about him and his report that 1000’s of bodies have been disposed of. Other reports, such as from bloggers inside Burma, say they are cremating bodies too.

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/15575/Burmese_general_seeks_asylum_in_Norway

Beagle17 @ 10/02/07 14:15:40

This is major..as big or bigger than Darfur.

Where is the international community on this one? Too busy with Iran? Too busy with the sub-prime mortgage uncertainties? Too busy with Iraq? Too busy….

hopefully this general gets face-time everywhere starting ASAP while the memory of the bloody protests has yet to fade from public consciousness

zirkonyx @ 10/02/07 15:14:27

It might be kept quite …...... Bush and others come out with lying crap about fake sanctions, but the oil companies (who have been thieving oil from Burma for decades) are still paying the military off to keep the population down and maintain a proxy corporate dictatorship.

Premier Oil (a UK company) used to be the main bastard but these days the oil mob pillaging Burma include:

Onshore
—————-

Myanmar Petroleum Resources Ltd
Focus Energy Ltd
Westburne
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
China National Petrochemical Corporation
Sinopec
Essar
Goldpetrol

Offshore
—————-

Total
Petronas Carigali Myanmar
Daewoo
PTT-EP
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
China National Petrochemical Corporation
Essar
Gail and Rimbunam

And of course, you can bet your boots that Bush and the corporate oil kleptocracy running the USA are benefiting financially from the oppression and oil theft in Burma – so apart from cheap rhetoric nothing substantial will come about to ease the situation for the Burmese general population.

Haggis @ 10/02/07 15:41:46

And of course, you can bet your boots that Bush and the corporate oil kleptocracy running the USA are benefiting financially from the oppression and oil theft in Burma

Except that Total is French, Petronas is Malaysian, Daewoo is Korean, China National Offshore Oil and China National Petrochemical are Chinese, Essar is Indian, Gail and Rimbunan are Indian, Sinopec is Chinese, Focus Energy is Indian, Myanmar Petroleum is Burmese state-owned, Westburne is Canadian, Goldpetrol is Burmese state-owned, and PTT-EP is Thai.

So how are American oil corporations benefiting from Burmese oil production that doesn’t involve American oil corporations? Did you stop to do some research, or did you just start knee-jerking? Seems more like South Asian and one Canadian is doing the keeping down in this case. Capitalism isn’t American, last time I checked, and neither does America have a monopoly on evil in the name of profit – so cut the shit.

Snark @ 10/02/07 16:00:50

“Western media” has been swift to declare the non-violent protests in ‘Burma’ over and done with, to no avail. They were declaring the protests a “pro-democracy movement”.

I am not so sure either of those statements is true. Media, and their political masters, might have a vested interest to convince people that non-violence is useless. After all, Bush is basing his entire presidency on violence, and PMs Harper and Blair were quick to support the military occupations. It might have something to do with the fact that there are several western corporate investments in Myanmar who court the favour of the military regime. As for the peacefull movement in Burma, it has been going on for more than a decade even if it is generally ‘on the quiet’. Their heart is still in it. My heart is with them, as are the hearts of many in western nations. Once again, it is an issue that our elected leaders are refusing to represent OUR views on by rejecting and opposiing the military regime.

Karlin @ 10/02/07 16:05:43

haggis and snark FYI...

according to democracy now (oct 2 newscast) CHEVRON is the largest investor in Burma.

antiguanoctane @ 10/03/07 13:35:11

Oh yeh. Badabing muchas gracias antigua.

microdot @ 10/03/07 13:39:08

thanks to haggis for the list…also a good point made by snark. I suspect that while bushCo doesn’t represent the majority of the oil extractors in Burma, he does set the tone for international response to human rights abuses.

zirkonyx @ 10/04/07 13:47:27

Mass murder

This image uniquely links directly from the entry page at Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s pages.

Beagle17 @ 10/06/07 13:59:33

Corporations don’t really have nationalities.

sisyphus @ 10/06/07 14:08:22