Myanmar / Burma

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/11/buddhist-monk-freed-burma

Congrats to Aung San Suu Kyi

Dissident Suu Kyi elected to Burmese parliament, opposition says

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/01/aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-election/

In Myanmar, an election doomed to fail

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/opinion/in-myanmar-an-election-doomed-...

Wall Street Proxy Aung San Suu Kyi's Ascension To Power - by Tony Cartalucci

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/wall-street-proxy-aung-san-suu-...

"...While Western 'imagineered' ideals of 'democracy', 'freedom' and 'human rights' will be used to mask Aung San Suu Kyi's ascension into power, the underlying agenda is one of Wall Street-London hegemony across Asia, the premeditated encirclement and subsequent containment of China, and the full-scale regional exploitation of Asia and its resources by Western corporate-financier interests."

Anyone who would write such trash knows almost nothing about the tragedy that has been the lot of the many different ethnic groups in Burma.  What ignorant trash.   You should be ashamed of yourself for posting such lies and attacks on someone who has endured so much pain.

What the hell is the argument here?  Does anybody really believe that the Myanmarian junta, a cabal of bloodsoaked multibazillionaire fascist generals, is "anti-imperialist"?

Or that keeping that junta in power is somehow "sticking it to The Man"?

The junta is not socialist.  it was never going to build socialism.  And this is exactly the kind of situation where "anti-imperialism" goes off the rails, and gets twisted into the old Mafia notion that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Anti-imperialists(and I consider myself one as well)can do better than that.

It will be possible now to organize a true anti-imperialist Left movement in Myanmar...there will now be space...there would never be that space if the generals had prevailed.

Aung San Suu Kyi Stoops To Conquer Burma

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1203/500660/aung-san-suu-kyi-stoops-to-...

"...some analysts, however, say Mrs Suu Kyi has been reduced to a mere token who the regime no longer fears, and is intentionally being permitted to win a seat because her election is worth the lifting of US sanctions. Washington hopes her victory will be the first of many democratic changes, so the US can increase its economic and political influence in the Buddhist majority, former British colony.

By staging the election and allowing other freedoms, the regime has risen to its most powerful position on the world stage, attracting politicians, businessmen and others from America, Europe and elsewhere. Columbia University professor Joseph E Stiglitz visited in 2009 and suggested 'removing the sanctions that have now become an impediment to the country's 'transformation.'

The sanctions include a ban on most international banking activity, rendering credit cards and bank transfers useless.."

Walkom: The Real Reason Canada is Cozying Up to Burma's Dictators

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1157856--walkom-the-...

"...Resource-rich Burma is subject to strict economic sanctions by Western countries. Big companies - and particularly big oil companies - are lobbying hard to have those sactions lifted. And Canada hopes to have its firms front and centre when the great barbecue begins.

The fact that Burma's military-backed leaders allowed any opening towards democracy - and that Suu Kiy gave them her imprimatur - offers Western countries the excuse they need to let trade and investment rip..."

Suu Ky's Silence on Oppressed Muslims Shocking: Analyst (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/07/14/250944/suu-kyi-antimuslims-stanc...

"Myanmar's democracy icon Ang San Suu Kyi - a Nobel prize winner - has not spoken out against atrocities and ethnic cleansing proposal against the Rohingya people.."

'World Silent on Religious Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims' (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/10/28/269178/world-silent-on-killing-...

"Western media hide the plight of Rohingya Muslims as it doesn't fit the preferred story that Buddhists are 'peace loving' and Muslims are 'perpetrators of violence'..."

so are the lives of Rohingya Muslims, the silence of Suu Kyi, and the wilful blindness of Canucklheads even as their governments do business there. See comments of these analysts:

Suu Kyi Sacrificing Rohingya Muslims for Political Ambitions: Analyst (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/10/29/269336/politics-hush-suu-kyi-on...

"A political analyst says the Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, has 'tragically and shamefully' chosen to remain silent on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in the country in order to advance her own political ambitions

It makes perfect sense for Muslim countries not to do business with Myanmar, given both the outrages occurring and the reality of western acquiesence/ignorance/approval of te genocide in progress. The two situations are not at all comparable in my view, but I have your point, nonetheless.

'Myanmar Wants to Annihilate Rohingyas' (and vid)

http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/11/01/269872/myanmar-wants-to-annihil...

"The government of Myanmar seeks to 'annihilate' the Rohingya Muslims amid ongoing violence against the community.."

Like Bahrain, West remains silently complicit

I Feel Betrayed by Aung San Suu Kyi