Too Sad To Ignore, Burma Crisis
Posted by nytexan on September 29, 2007
I repost this article from fellow blogger Wayne’s Dhamma Blog:
The Book of Great Learning says:
“He who loses the (hearts of the) people loses the state.”
The Dao De Jing says:“Why threaten the people with death,
when they are no longer afraid of dying?”
The Junta government in Burma has oppressed its people for far too long. They have no qualms about plunging their own nation into an abyss of poverty and hopelessness, only to cling on to illegitimate power. Nothing has changed since the 1988 massacre of 3,000 over protesters, other than the mastermind of the violence - General Tan Shwe, another ruthless dictator. Like North Korean “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il, he himself lives like a King while the rest of the country are going through hell trying to survive from day to day.
The Dao De Jing also says:“When the people no longer fear oppression,
then the great calamity (for the ruler) has arrived.”
How many must perish before someone steps in to stop the massacres? Burma, Darfur and … the Middle East are crying for help. Shame on the deaf ears of the world.
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