What To Do About The Monsters Joseph Fritzl & Than Shwe
Jun 17th, 2008
_ by Yebaw Day
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Fritzl’s daugther Elisabeth |
Su Su Nway, imprisoned for speaking the truth |
Austria 1977: a man called Josef Fritzl secretly began to abuse his 11 year-old daughter Elisabeth. Then, in 1984 when she was 18, he imprisoned her in the basement of his home and continued to rape her for 24 more years until April 2008. During that time, 6 vaginal deliveries occurred in that basement without any medical professional present. One delivery was a pair of twins of which one died. Fritzl secretly burned its body in an incinerator like trash. Three of the babies he brought upstairs and raised them as adopted children. The remaining three stayed with Elisabeth, never seeing the light of day until recently. Incredibly, Frau Fritzl and the neighbors never realized the truth until then.
In 2006, 44 year-old man called Priklopil jumped in front of a train in an act of suicide after an 18 year-old girl, Natascha Kampusch, escaped. He had kidnapped her off the street, and like Fritzl, imprisoned her in the basement of his home for 8 years as his personal sex slave. Since 2006, Austrians and other Europeans have agonized over how such horrors could happen and then, in April 2008 came the case of Fritzl.
People shudder and shake their heads as to what to do about such monsters in their midst.
Here now is a practical suggestion on how to compensate for the painful past –take action against similar crimes.
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73 year-old Austrian Monster Joseph Fritzl |
75 year-old Burmese MONSTER Than Shwe |
In Burma, as many now know, there is a group of Generals in power. The Supreme General is Than Shwe born in 1933, only 2 years older than
Joseph Fritzl which makes the two men contemporaries. Fritzl graduated from a technical college with a skill in electronics whereas Than Shwe never even graduated from high school. Fritzl served 18 months in prison for a rape conviction 1967 and was involved in another case of attempted rape. A third case of rape and murder remains unsolved. He is also notorious for indecent exposure. Fritzl thus has an extensive history of criminal behavior with a penchant for aggressive violence over his victims. Upon questioning by police, he admitted imprisoning his daughter “because she would no longer listen to him,” that he only wanted to discipline her and protect her from the outside world. The reporter commented that perhaps this was because Fritzl was brought up during the Nazi era where discipline was harsh.
Compare Fritzl to Than Shwe who served in the Burma Army (which was originally trained by the Japanese fascists during WW2) since the time he was a young man for over half-a-century during which he never served any jail time for having committed countless war crimes against the Karens and other ethnic members including his own Burmese ethnic group. Instead, the Burma Army promoted him steadily until he became The Dictator in in 1992. He, like typical Burma Army officers, has been involved in torture, rape, murder, terrorist bombings, intimidation, extortion, robbery, pillage, arson, as well as unfair imprisonment and slavery of thousands of Karen and other ethnic civilians, not just rebels. Like Fritzl, he too was a control freak, only worse. He has supreme authority over the entire nation. He and his wife, Kyaing Kyaing, demand being addressed as a King and Queen as in olden days. Despite such royal pretensions, he professes belief his warped notions of a “disciplined democracy.” The people call him the Burmese Hitler. His other epithet is Khway Biloo, meaning Ogre Dog or The Bulldog.
(Google satellite map of Insein Prison)
Out of the many prisons in Burma, the worst one is Insein (pronounced like ‘insane’) Penitentiary north of Rangoon, derisively called Burma’s Moscow Prison by the common people and government officials alike. Many have been unjustly imprisoned within its walls and continue to
languish to this day. Inside Moscow and other prisons, unspeakable horrors are committed daily. Su Su Nway was an ordinary woman who was jailed simply because she dared to charge her local authorities of practicing forced labor. She won her court case, but instead of those guilty officials going to prison, she was the one who ended up behind bars under false charges. Aung San Suu Kyi, the well-known Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1991, was placed under house arrest for being the Opposition Leader, and has been in-and-out of her home which has been her prison for a total of 12 out of the past 18 years. This latest incarceration began in May 2003 after she and her people were ambushed in Depeyin by Than Shwe’s thugs. She escaped a violent death when over a hundred of her followers sacrificed their lives to protect her, only to be captured and imprisoned once again in her own home. As of last month, she completed the five-year mark and was due to be released. However, Than Shwe whimsically extended her prison term by yet another year without without any reason.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi in front of her prison-home
Elizabeth Fritzl and 3 of her children were imprisoned in the basement of their own home for 24 years. Her children born in that hell-hole had never known the light of day. Their father exercised his authority over them, “disciplining and protecting them from outside harm,” or so he claims. This is similar to Than Shwe who claims to guide his people in a “disciplined version of democracy” but in reality it is just The Mockery,” having just gone through the motions of a sham referendum to legitimize his power.
Fritzl, in the end, allowed his 18 year-old daughter-cum-granddaughter to be taken outside for hospitalization when she developed kidney failure or else she would have died. He at least relented and allowed emergency medical treatment and had remnants of decency. Of course, the whole story came out in the hospital and he was arrested.
Than Shwe, on the other hand, has no such decency. When millions of his “national children” faced hunger, dehydration, displacement, disease, and death in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, he treated them as prisoners in vast concentration camps throughout the Irrawaddy Delta, placing his soldiers and thugs as guards, preventing foreign aid workers and doctors from reaching them. He acts as though his criminal history will be discovered and arrested like Fritzl if he were to allow outside help for his beleaguered people.
At least Fritzl was man enough to take the risk of being found out, but Than Shwe is not that manly but just an evil coward.
If we feel mortified with Fritzl’s crimes, how then shall we quantify our mortification for evils of Than Shwe? He is called Bagyi (pron. bah jee, j as in jeans) or Great Father by his soldiers, just as Fritzl’s children had to call him Vater or Papa. Father’s Day is next week as this article is being written, but these two monsters have made a horrible parody out of fatherhood.
But why continue to commiserate over Fritzl? He is waiting for trial and justice will be served. Elisabeth and the surviving children are gradually recuperating. We cannot undo the pain of their past sufferings, but at least their ordeals are over. The oppression of the People of Burma, however, continues and only worsens day by day.
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Alfred Gusenbauer |
Austria’s Chancellor on a campaign to restore the nation’s reputation
To Austrians and other Europeans, why fret over Fritzl ? It is of no use whatsoever to waste time on him. His story is over and he is finished,
kaput. But there is a much bigger saga on the other side of the world in Burma.
But perhaps you still want to do something about Fritzl. In that case, consider all the people in Burma being mistreated by this Burmese Fritzl. There are not only the Burmese people, but also the ethnic Karens, Karennis, Kachins,Chins, Shans, Mons, Arakans and many more subgroups. The Austrian Fritzl abused his children but in the end allowed them to go to hospital for much needed help. The Burmese Fritzl, in contrast, abuses 54 million national children and refuses to permit any outside help for fear he will be arrested like Fritzl.
If Elisabeth and her three children were still down there in their basement dungeon and Fritzl was making a stand-off against the Polizei,
what would your reaction be? Would you not demand a special commando unit to storm the basement and rescue the prisoners? Well, here now are 54 million Burmese Elisabeths and Fritzl children imprisoned in the basement hellhole of Burma. The Burmese Fritzl is much more powerful. He has an army of thugs to protect him and he also has these Indian and ASEAN neighbors as well as his Chinese landlord who insist that you cannot violate the privacy of his home. It is quite ironic that at least Frau Fritzl and her neighbors could rightfully claim they knew nothing
of the past 24 years. To Frau Fritzl and her neighors, do not blame yourselves. You did not take part in the rape of the Fritzl children nor did you exploit them like pimps, hiring them to others. Think of the case of Burma where the neighboring countries DO know what is going on and yet for the past 20 years since the Nationwide Uprisings of 8-8-88, they have been aiding and abetting the Burmese Fritzl in return for economic gain. Thus, these neighors deserve to be called sons of A BITCH (ASEAN, Bengla, India, Thai, CHina)
So what are we to do? To the Honorable Chancellor Gusenbauer I would like to suggest that one excellent way to restore Austria’s national reputation is to demand justice in Burma. To our Honorable Readers, I ask that you keep up with current news in Burma, e.g. through <freeburmarangers.org>, <burmadigest.info> and other websites. Perhaps later you would like to take part in a demonstration. Perhaps you would write to your national leaders or take part in some form of activism. If you had any anguish when you first read about Joseph Fritzl, here now is a chance to do something about it. Forget about Joe. He’s kaput. Just concentrate on the Burmese Fritzl, please, for the sake of your own burning conscience.
- Yebaw Day
June 19th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
nice to read but 2 stories are not related at all, you rather compare Dog Than Shwe with something else,
June 21st, 2008 at 12:07 am
The similarity of monsterous deeds committed by Fritzl and Than Shwe is juxtaposed in a very clever way to draw out sentiments that will lead to action against the junta leader. And a question is posed, ” Why do we not have/display the same revulsion?”.
A possible explanation is that if we look closely at our (each nation’s) history we cannot fail but recognise similar dastardly deeds that have been hidden and which are yet to be resolved.
Perhaps “shame” is a very powerful silencer in a situation such as the one under discussion. Will cast the first stone?
Another explanation is that there is risk in taking action that will change the staus quo. Things could go terribly wrong. Rather than take that risk it appears more “comfortable” to protect one’s investment in access to the country’s resourses. Human life, to many bean-counter politicians, is expendible.
Change will come, I believe, when the situation hurts enough of us deep in our hearts and for some deep in their pockets. Our reasoning often astounds ourselves, in retrospect, in its exceptional self deception.
Thank you Yebaw Day for drawing the bow of comparison that could possibly release the arrow of Than Shwe’s demise.
Zaw Min
November 4th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Sick Bastards!..Thats all I can say.
March 18th, 2009 at 3:54 am
how many still going on that we dont know till now or never know.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
U cannot compare apples and oranges. the two mwn share a compulsion to rule over people in an arbitrary manner, but the burmese general has no rape record or incest record. different kind of monster. If your people aren’t satisfied with him, there are many ways yo get rid of him. Get international attention and approval before you try guerilla action. Check out history.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Both truly tormenting stories. Just wish they were fictional tales rather than horrific real life ordeals. I also wish these two monsters could suffer decades of agony and not just die of old age with health care like we know they will.
March 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I think Joesf Fritzl is a monster! I think they should cut-off his penis and shove it down his throat.i’ve been following this case and i’m outraged that a father could do such a thing. My heart goes out to Elisabeth and her kids. I think she is a strong and courageous woman! I wish her and her kids lots of: Love, Luck and Happiness! and hope they can have a normal productive life.May God Bless them!!!!!!!! and they are forever in my thoughts and prayer.
sincerely,
Marilyn
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 am
As what to do with these men, Fritzl seems to some degree be getting off easy with just going to the mental hospital for life. Everything is explained away these days as some sort of uncontrollable condition with very little personal accountability.
Personally I would not be opposed to the death penalty in his case but life in prison would work as well. I just hope they don’t make it too cushy like in the States where Federal prisons require cable T.V. Some western prison systems are more like free rides than actual punishment.
As for Than Shwe you basically have two basic realistically possible options, either you wait him out till he dies and hope the next regime is more open minded, or you actually use to violently overthrow him which would require a mass uprising.
Peaceful protests are not working with good people being killed, tortured, raped, and or imprisoned. In the least those who chose to protest should do so asymmetrically via outside the country, or quick stealth like protests & or with literature that is hard to trace.
With China supporting the regime it is unlikely that even violence would be able to overthrow Than Shwe’s regime. Unfortunately the yin approach waiting it out may be the most effective, look at what happened to the soviet union.
In any case it is very very sad and my heart goes out to the Burmese people. May they find refuge in the Buddha.
Peace be in your hearts.
March 28th, 2009 at 11:44 am
f–k man they are filthy c–ts arnt they!!!
March 29th, 2009 at 2:45 am
I don’t see how you can even compare the two… the man had children with his own daughter… and burned his daughter/granddaughter’s body in an incinerator! How can you compare that f***er with anyone else? They are both bastards in different ways! EQUALLY!
April 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I think the binding factor betwix both situations is the demented ambitions of evil.
God will judge all.
Peace!
May 17th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS STORY, I COULDN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. WHAT A SICK MOFO C**T! I HOPE JOSEF FRITZL GETS RAPED & BEATEN IN PRISON AND I HOPE HE GETS TO A POINT OF SUCH DESPERATION THAT HE IS GOING TO WISH HE WAS DEAD!!!! I DON’T EVEN THINK A DEATH PENALTY OR A PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTION IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAUGHTER ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE AND THEIR 7 CHILDREN!!! MY HEART GOES OUT TO ELISABETH & HER FAMILY, I KNOW THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT CAN MAKE UP FOR WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ELISABETH & HER CHILDREN, BUT I HOPE LIFE WILL MAKE IT UP TO THEM NOW…
June 12th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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Here is a comment that I would like to make
about Josef Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie …
Clearly that “person” (and one has to stretch the
definition of the word “person” in order to apply
it to that creature) known to the world as Josef
Fritzl was / is the DEVIL-INCARNATE —- AND
he should burn in h*ll for all of eternity for his evil.
In addition, it also needs to be stated that no person
on earth should allow themselves be fooled for
even one moment by the lies of “I didn’t know”
that are currently being claimed by that lying
and equally evil wife of this evil DEVIL!!!
That vile, evil, perverted, disgusting, devil
b**tch of a wife of that MONSTER KNEW!!
SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!!
She KNEW the whole time (or at least had
literally no excuse whatsoever to have not
at least ‘suspected’ something was amiss!!!)
She is a LIAR and she must think the entire world is
as perverted as both she and her husband are and
that by coming up with that ridiculous and flimsy
excuse that she can then convince the rest of
the world to then respond to her own complicity
the same way she chose to respond to that of
her husband’s evil — by ‘turning a blind eye’.
BOTH of them are utter DEVILS and one
cannot help but to hope that they both burn
in h*ll for all of eternity for their evil acts!!!!
She expects anyone on this planet who has even
half-a-brain-stem to believe for even one fraction
of a moment that she didn’t know anything at all?!?!
Give me a break!!!
For crying out loud–unless this woman is Helen
Keller –she has NO EXCUSE at all to not have
known (or at least ’suspected’) something strange
and conspiratorial was going on regarding her
daughter’s whereabouts and situation and that the
husband’s stories were just far too incredulous
and absolutely made no sense in the least bit!!!
After all — think about it — daughter runs away as a
very young teen; daughter mysteriously disappears
at the age of 18 (an age when she can both make
her own decisions and choose to get away from
her father and even bring charges against him); the
(convicted-rapist/arsonist) father gets a letter from
daughter 1 month after her disappearance which
ridiculously claims she has joined a cult and does
not want to have any contact with the family – yet
amazingly then later chooses (for 3 years in a row)
to simply leave 3 of her newborn babies on the
doorstep of very home that she tried to run away
from at least 2 X’s before and is “allegedly thought”
to have finally left in order to join some sort of
“phantom” cult (a “cult” which, unlike every other
cult, just somehow, seemingly has no desire to try
to indoctrinate the youth from birth, but rather it
simply allows it’s members to select a home –one
which in fact, is both not a part of the cult AND is
the very home from which the member ran in order
to join the cult —to raise their babies and kids of
the cult members) –ALL THE WHILE – the father
forbids ANYONE to ever for ANY REASON dare to
go ANYWHERE NEAR the mysterious basement
(which he always keeps locked, disappears to for
hours and days on end; has ‘unseen’ bathroom
equipment installed; and has a cement-barricaded
door installed which both has a security-code and
which was so complicated it needed inspection
by local government authorities in order to install).
Just 2 years before the “discovery” of what this
monster (and his devil wife via her complicity of
silence) did to their poor child – another young girl,
and former kidnap victim, was also found in Austria.
It was discovered that the other young kidnap /
rape victim had disappeared 8 years earlier and
had been held in a basement / dungeon where
she had been repeatedly raped the entire time
by the individual who had also kidnapped her.
Now —- even if the public was expected to
simply throw all common sense to the wind
and accept this monster’s devil-wife’s excuse
that she “didn’t know”, say, in the beginning …
it still stands to reason that after hearing about
the case of the other young girl 2 years earlier
—– this creep’s equally creepy wife would
have said something to herself like, say …
”””Hmmm … a young girl who disappeared 8 years
ago, out of no where, has been discovered
to have been held in a basement the entire
time and while there she was repeatedly
raped by the person who trapped her there.
Hmmm … my daughter, who repeatedly tried
to run away from my convicted-rapist husband
as a child has also mysteriously disappeared
– and – my convicted-rapist husband is
always coming across both ‘letters’ and
‘grandchildren’ that were allegedly left
by my daughter (who has vanished
without a trace) — and – meanwhile
my convicted-rapist husband also
has a mysterious basement that he
keeps under lock and key and never
allows anyone to come near — ever.
Hmmm … now I cannot help but to wonder
if that convicted-rapist husband I married
just may have had something to do with
the disappearance of our daughter – and
– the appearance of all these grandkids
and letters – and I also can’t help but to
wonder if that mystery-basement room
of his would, in some way / in any way,
be connected somehow to our child’s
disappearance and / or the mysterious
appearance of all of these grandchildren.”””
Yes – one would think that – even if this woman
could have claimed ‘ignorance’ earlier – (a lie
which, again, no one with any common sense
should ever consider buying into) – once the
discovery was made of a similar situation 2
years earlier – she then had NO excuse to not
have at least been suspicious of something
about her convicted-rapist husband and his
ever-so-mysterious hidden basement room.
That vicious devil simply did not care at all about
her own daughter – or — she simply cared more
about her own creature-comforts and keeping up
with her middle-class appearances than she did
about the torture being done to her own child.
THAT POOR GIRL’S VILE, DISGUSTING
PERVERTED LYING B*TCH OF A MOTHER
KNEW FULL WELL WHAT WAS GOING ON
– SHE KNEW– SHE KNEW– SHE KNEW!!!
THAT WIFE IS A B*TCH, A DEVIL AND A
VILE PERVERT AND ONE CANNOT HELP
BUT TO TRULY HOPE THAT— SINCE SHE
OBVIOUSLY FELT SOME STRANGE NEED
TO BE SO VERY LOYAL TO THAT DEVIL,
OF A PERVERTED CONVICTED-RAPIST
AND ARSONIST FREAK OF A HUSBAND
OF HERS AND TO CHOOSE TO STAND BY
HIS SIDE FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY
ALL THE WHILE THAT HE IMPRISONED
AND ALSO SEXUALLY AND PHYSICALLY
AND MENTALLY TORTURED THEIR CHILD
— SHE WILL CONTINUE TO REMAIN BY
HIS SIDE AS THEY BOTH BURN IN H*LL
TOGETHER FOR ALL OF ETERNITY!!
She is clearly as much of a
pervert and devil as is he!!
Would anyone even be remotely surprised
if further investigation later revealed that
‘Rosemarie Fritzl’ (who is actually trying to
get the world to see her as a co-victim of
her daughter’s horrific nightmare of a life)
was actually just another ‘Rosemary West’
(a woman whose husband also originally –
and falsely – claimed that she had nothing
to do with his unbelievably evil sex crimes)?
What kind of a woman, after all, chooses to marry
(or remained married to) a man who had already
committed and also been convicted of previously
raping another woman and has shown absolutely
no remorse about any of it whatsoever in the least.
SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!! SHE KNEW!!!