Now it seems as if the people of that country are speaking in a very powerful way.
Peacefully.
Some 100 nuns joined the budddhist monks along with 20,000 members of the public to march for freedom on Saturday in Rangoon.
A leader of the march said, "We want national reconconciliation, we want dialogue with the military, we want freedom for Aung San Sun Kyi and other political prisoners." What a brave lady she is, how much she has given up in the pursuit of freedom.
Tentatively human rights activists have started to refer to this movement as "The Saffron Revolution."
We can only hope that there is not a bloody crackdown by the dictatorship.
Should make us think about how fortunate it is to have been born in a democracy. I shall try to think of this when I get irritated by something trivial today.
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I read the memoires Aung San Sun Kyi wrote under house arrest about 10 years ago, and little has changed. The international community has paid almost no attention to this serious oppression. I hope this peaceful demonstration is the start of a major movement.
Of course so do I. I am listening with bated breath to each news cast scared about what might happen. It sounded this morning as if the military junta were lining up possibly to get ready to move in. The peaceful protest also sounds as if it is growing by the moment. I read Under the Dragon which is a brilliant insight into the people of Burma under the generals. Just heard the news (12 p.m.) and there are thousands of people on the streets of Rangoon and no soldiers in sight. We watch impotently and wait.
We are so fortunate!
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