Don’t be fooled. Myanmar’s ‘democratic election’ is a sham.
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Don’t be fooled. Myanmar’s ‘democratic election’ is a sham.
sad; a wonderful country with friendly people
Oct. 14, 2020 at 10:45 p.m. GMT+7
Tun Khin is president of the Burma Rohingya Organization UK.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... n-is-sham/
Opinion by Tun KhinToday, as Myanmar gears up for another general election on Nov. 8, the situation is starkly different. Three years ago, Aung San Suu Kyi, now the country’s de facto head of state, stood by as military leaders launched a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that killed thousands of Rohingya and drove more than 700,000 across the border into Bangladesh, where they now languish in immense refugee camps. The roughly 500,000 who remain in the country have been effectively disenfranchised. They are denied access to Myanmar’s democracy simply because of who they are.
Our government is trying to portray this election as the next stage of Myanmar’s transition to democracy. Don’t be fooled. Real democracy will remain elusive in a country that cannot acknowledge its own role in the mass persecution of its own citizens.
Oct. 14, 2020 at 10:45 p.m. GMT+7
Tun Khin is president of the Burma Rohingya Organization UK.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... n-is-sham/
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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