Events in Myanmar & its Manifestations in SG: Part 1

As we go about our daily routines, pretending nothing is happening, hundreds of people are being bludgeoned, tortured, shot, burnt.

People like you and me. People who deserve to live a life, with opportunities, or so we believe. Even so, they deserve the right to believe. That there is hope.

The way it goes, and the world's hope is on UN. And UN's hope and answer, is on its Envoy, Mr Gambari. Every other day that his inquisition extends, he's being taken through a facade of the situation in Burma.

Staged peace. Forced demonstration in Mitchyna, whereby every household is ordered to send 2 of its members to partcipated in a staged demonstration, whereby security forces responsible peacably. It's audience - our world's hope, none other than the Envoy.

Every night then, much unknown to international media, throughout the curfew in Myanmar, people are being massacred by the hundreds. Thanks to the sly kill-and-rob-the-corpse tactics employed by the military and its paid thugs, the official death toll is a mere 10?

The systematic wipeout of protestors and its champions, even sees tactics such as employment of thugs to do the dirty work of killing. So any footage caught by our fancy IT gadgets do not hold true to the deed of the military.


Every day then, that the Junta takes our hope, the Envoy to a specially staged circus outing, people are dying.

It isn't the worst. As ko-thike (http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/) puts it, "We only have our lives to lose..." as 200 monks in the Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery were orderly executed or arrested.

The worst thing is... the hope, the only thing that the people of Myanmar has been clinging unto, is dying every day. Little by little. The government, or so I would rather term it as bandit lords, is, the way it seems, on its way to quelling opposition voices and making life in Burma the way it was - without hope - for the past FOUR DECADES.




Now, are we that entrenched in the status quo, time and again pushing the issue away as an "internal affair" of Burma?

Are we too busy shuffling our heads back to work, pretending that such atrocities are not being committed?

Do we know that silence means consent. Do we condone such acts? Are we too wrapt in our own narrow lives to come to terms with our conscience?



Resolution:
If it is no, is it so hard to the UN to send peacekeeping troops to halt violent acts?
There is no need to oust the government, but is sending a neutral force too dificult?
There are footages, clips, evidences... of atrocities to quell peace protestors.
Or does the world need to wait months for votings by UN committee panel to agree on decisive action?


If it takes thousands of lives to be lost, even millions, before a decisive action is made, what good is the UN, the beacon of hope for humanity, human rights, and peace?

Why not specialize in casketing and burial services.

Which will be better - save us false hopes, and possible misconceptions/misinterpretations/misconstrued perceptions that it is little more than a global organization of governments with self-interests.

Even then from that aspect, there are natural resources of natural gas, oil and gems from Burma. If it applies to our material rationale.... as our hearts and conscience are lost.