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One Response to “Burma will take Ship Aid (cartoon)”

• #1 Singhnoi Says:
  May 24th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  Money Ahoy!
  Aye Aye Sir!
  T. Leave me the ships.
  B. What are you going to do with them?
  T. We are going to use them for our country.
  B. But you don’t have oil to drive the engines. You lost 25 warships because the ships couldn’t sail to safety. Your men sold the oil because they haven’t received their salaries for months.
  T. “We” means my master Kyaing and me, dumb!
  B. You mean you are dumb?
  T. Enough! I am going to lease the ships?
  B. To whom?
  T. The Myanmar Navy of course! The 25 ships also belong to me. They are all insured at Myanmar Bank.
  B. Again, no oil for the ships.
  T. They can buy the oil from my son’s oil company on credit.
  B. How generous of you! But if they can’t pay the debt? If they lose the ships in the sea?
  T. I will have the deserted delta region as collateral. It is worth almost nothing now! But I am willing to sacrifice for the country.
  B. You can hardly walk without support, let alone operate a big farm.
  T. Who cares! I can lease the land to big farm companies from my good neighbouring countries.
  Part of it can be leased to state farms. The storm survivors are willing to work as farm hands at 1,000 Kyat a day. They are grateful to us.
  B. To a dictator like you?
  T. For not finishing them off during the storm.
  B. OK…OK… I give up! See you later.
  T. Where? You…coming again?
  B. At the world criminal court.When my term ends, I am going to apply for a chief prosecutor post specializing in war crimes.
  Singhnoi.

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