http://burmadigest.info/2007/10/27/road-maps-to-democracy/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:12:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://burmadigest.info/2007/10/27/road-maps-to-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1943 Tettoe Aung Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:29:31 +0000 http://burmadigest.info/2007/10/27/road-maps-to-democracy/#comment-1943 Cedric, Military men with clean records? You must be joking. Those with clean records are either dead or retired from the service. Unlike the military in other countries the military in Burma operates more like a mafia or a Chinese triads. Very few from outside will be allowed to study in the Defence Academy and without having someone in the military one cannot become an officer. When these officers shed their uniforms they become directors, managing directors and so on in civil service. How about an ex-military personnel becoming a director of a department in civil service? He may be in charge of a section that deals with the Middle East but for him to know the Middle Question or the Palestinian Question is like knowing chalk from cheese. They have been running the country for more than forty years now and you have seen that even the monks cannot put up with them anymore. Cedric,
Military men with clean records? You must be joking. Those with clean records are either dead or retired from the service.
Unlike the military in other countries the military in Burma operates more like a mafia or a Chinese triads. Very few from outside will be allowed to study in the Defence Academy and without having someone in the military one cannot become an officer.
When these officers shed their uniforms they become directors, managing directors and so on in civil service. How about an ex-military personnel becoming a director of a department in civil service? He may be in charge of a section that deals with the Middle East but for him to know the Middle Question or the Palestinian Question is like knowing chalk from cheese. They have been running the country for more than forty years now and you have seen that even the monks cannot put up with them anymore.

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