A gust of hot air but little pain for the junta
Oct 17th, 2007
A gust of hot air but little pain for the junta
NYT
United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari is on a six-nation tour to drum up support against Myanmar’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists, writes SETH MYDANS
UNITED Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari said in Bangkok on Monday that arrests in Myanmar “must stop at once”, and that the international community must do more to curb repression by the ruling junta.
Gambari had arrived in Bangkok on Sunday to begin a six-country consultation tour of Asia before heading to Myanmar to resume talks with the government that began early this month.
“We could do more, not just Thailand,” he said. “India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the United Nations, we could do more.”
But it was not clear what more he — or the international community — could do to influence the behaviour of a junta that appears not to care what the world thinks.
It has isolated itself by choice for the past half century and has managed quite well with the help of a few self-interested friends.
Be careful Dr Gambari, Singapore led ASEAN is selfish, greedy, cunning, have kaisu culture and are going to keep Myanmar SPDC Junta as an ASEAN member forever, under their protection, so that they would be able to exploit its remaining wealth. They all are just giving a lip service to made themselves look good infront of the international media.
At the same time, they will continue to discriminate the Myanmar citizens in their own countries.
Even amongst foreigners, we all are unfairly discriminated with ASEAN Apartheid Laws.
Even amongsts foreigners, they give favour to the Europeans, Americans, Arabs, Australians, Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Hongkoners, Indonesians, Commonwealth members and their other fellow ASEAN members other than Myanmars.
All the rich ASEAN countries especially; Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are shamelessly and unfairly practicing the discriminating extra rules and regulations as RED TAPES on all the Myanmar citizens. UN, US and EU should look at those practices, laws, red tapes as modern Apartheid.
