go by your arguments, Saddham Hussein is still running Iraq!!!

The cyclone Nargis disaster is an inevitable one for Myanmar. When the common folk is surviving on a day to day basis. It doesn’t take much more than a hiccup from Mother Nature to push most over the cliff. And now we have one hell of a Category 5 cyclone plus global warming and other problems.

No external parties or country can change the fate of the Myanmese except themselves. We cannot intrude into a sovereign country’s politics and government no matter how badly it was governed unless it presented a clear and present threat to our own national security.

Therefore, only the people themselves can change their future. They need to overthrow the military junta on their own before other countries can help and contribute to rebuilding Myanmar. As long as the people continue to tolerate the military junta, there will be no hope. Not for Aung San Su Kyii and definitely not for democracy.

I hope the Myanmar military junta realized this, and not some Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-democracy threats.

The junta should be thankful that the cyclone did not choose to wipe them out entirely from the face of this planet!

Jokes aside, I believe there’s not much Malaysians or ASEAN can do to remove the junta. It’s their rakyat who are in power to topple. But even that’s quite hard looking at how junta beating up monks and killing innocent demonstrators on many previous occasions. It will be a never-ending cycle. Support junta or die. Many a times, solutions involve death. Pity.

Today at 12: 09.00 (5 hours ago)
Non-petroleum producers such as Swaziland and Seychelles have cheaper oil prices than Malaysia?!

Egypt, a non oil producer, also cheaper,
but also Norway, an oil producer, more expensive, but they hv very high income!

While it is inhumane of the Junta regime for accepting donation for food, medicine and fund but not foreign aid workers, one must realize that this regime has so much evils to hide from the outside world. The Junta regime could not afford to let foreign workers running around in its ground while picking up vital intelligence which could be used against them in future. They are aware that CIA intelligence could infiltrate into its territory in the disguise of foreign workers. The Junta regime has iron-curtained its country from the outside world many years now and could not just simply let the curtain be melting down. Shunning themselves away from the outside world does not result the government an extra grain to spare its citizens but self-intersts of a few important generals rise above everything else.

The issue of Myanmar’s recalcitrance will dominate the next Asean Conference and will for many more conferences as long as this regime is in power. The generals are just too strong-willed and determined to ensure the survival of themselves. By doing so, sacrificing lives would be just another pawn in their long term survival goal unless, of course, United Nation sanction a move to liberate Myanmar. Anything short of that, Myanmar will continue to be iron-curtained.