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11 May 2008 09:35 pm
Evil In Burma
Fallows' take - with photos:
My wife and I have been to Burma several times over the last twenty
years. The first time was in the summer of 1988, around the time of the
August 8 uprising and subsequent bloody repression of monks and
students. The most recent was a little more than a year ago, a few days
before another bloody round of repression. Like almost everyone who has
been in the country, we have viewed its regime as a peculiarly
pre-modern and backward form of evil. It does not seems capable of
thoroughly-organized evil and repression, as in the old Soviet system.
Rather it displays a benighted, superstitious, and almost unthinking
indifference to whether its people suffer and die.
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