The Forgotten People of Burma
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 22:42:03
Bangladesh has its own illegal immigration problem. The country plays host to approximately from the bordering country of Burma. The refugees belong to the minority a persecuted Muslim population who are being methodically ethnically cleansed by Burma's ruling military junta. They live in Bangladesh under desperate conditions battling for scarce jobs and resources in the already desperately poor south eastern region of Bangladesh. It is just one of the of the forgotten people of Burma.
Burma or Myanmar as the ruling military junta would like to be called is one of the most brutally repressed countries in the world. It has been under military rule since 1962. An impoverished country of 50 million people. Burma boasts an army of over 400,000 active personnel. It's yearly stands at an estimated 7 billion dollars and is Pakistan. Iran and North Korea. Burma has the standing military in the world and spends an astounding 19% of its annual gross domestic product on the military. While the junta leaders live in luxury the rest of the population lives on less than $1 a day. Burma is the nation on Earth.
The Burmese military is at war with its own people. It is so fearful of its own people that it has moved the capital of the country. In 2005 the military junta built a new. Naypyidaw about 320 kilometers north of the former capital and Burma's largest city, of Rangoon. Naypyidaw is secretive and under tight seal. Cell telecommunicate networks do not work there and the civil servants are housed in military built apartments while the junta live in luxury villas of Naypyidaw are hard to go by.
On September 6th the military junta in Burma that General Maung Aye second in command in Burma, was postponing his upcoming tour to Bangladesh where he was expected to grow on the new found with the military rulers of Bangladesh. This was the first signal from the junta that they were anticipating the August protests over high furnish prices to get significantly worse. Ten days later on thousands of revered Burmese monks joined the protesters on the streets of Buma's cities. The monks led the protesters to the doorstep of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi's domiciliate where she has been held under house arrest and solitary isolation on and off for nearly 2 decades. The fix minister of Burma and the for the Burmese people, came out briefly to pray with the monks and the protesters. It was the first time the Burmese people saw her in four years.
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