Now I don’t know anything about Burma Burma
“A feared army attacking civilians indiscriminately, razing homes and raping women while the government prevents international aid from reaching tens of thousands of displaced survivors.”
To me, that sounds like there are some obvious problems that need to be worked out. The government is also preventing UN agencies to help, as well as any other aid groups to send food or supplies to the starving civilians. Children, all the way up to elderly people are being abducted and forced to do labor or become soldiers. Women are taken to become sex slaves.
The reforms are looking to have no immediate effect on civilians, and won’t benefit people for a long time.
I don’t have much background on Burma
Probably just because it can. Similarly to Joseph Kony, if one person or group gains enough power in underdeveloped nations, they can do basically whatever they want. If Burma presents itself as too hostile of an area to help then they won't receive any help. I think reform would have to come in the form of a military government where people are severely punished for wrong doings, because as you see, without the military as a huge force, the government has lost its power.
ReplyDeleteBurma much like China and most countries in Africa have a history of being repressed by foreign governments. Burma was taken over by the Japanese in world war 2 and the people were used for labor for the war effort such as slave labor or sex slaves, the Allies knew Burma was a back door into Japan since they could use it as a base for operations. In 1962 the military overthrew the government and replaced it with a military government that created Burmese Way To Socialism which had Soviet influence in it and based their economy and life on that. Thats a reason why they were like that.
ReplyDelete