Atrocity Overload - Myanmar

 

 

There are two parties/factions/sides in Myanmar. You can decide for yourself which you support but this might help. Yesterday, the party NOT in power was opening an office in a small town when the party IN power bombed the ceremony. Killed at least twenty children and fifty women who were there, mostly, for the free tea and snacks, part of the local New Year’s celebration. 

 

Food is scarce in Myanmar and free food is sure to draw a crowd. One hundred thirty dead in all, so far. Then the pilots ate lunch, refueled, bombed up, went back and did it again. Strafed the town, too. BTW, only one side has an air force or missiles.

 

The Myanmar explanation for massacring its own citizens? “They are opposing our government.” The US State Department is “deeply upset.” You think?

 

On Monday they bombed a school. In March they bombed a monastery. Last September they bombed another school. They have bombed hospitals.

 

You may have known Myanmar as Burma, a war-torn country in which many allied lives were lost in WWII. Should you be interested in that, and I can hardly blame you if you’re not, I recommend Quartered Safe Out There, one soldier’s experiences, by George Macdonald Fraser.

 

Myanmar once held free elections. In March, 2021, the losing side staged a coup and they’re in charge now. Let the killing begin! They see that China and Russia commit genocide and the US stands by and does nothing, so why not Myanmar? It’s like crime in NYC: You may get caught but nothing’s going to happen to you.

 

Did I mention that Myanmar has a LOT of oil and gas? That’s the reason the Japanese fought so hard to keep it, back in the day.

 

If JoeyB will buy Venezuelan oil and Cuban oil, then why not buy Myanmar oil? It’s the same thing. Make a dictator rich at the expense of the USA, and our conscience.

 

TAKE A STAND, JOE! Tell them there are consequences to genocide!

 

Some things just piss me off.