Burma, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a permanent exile.
"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 1986, Oslo.
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How wonderful to have found your blog and your commentary on U Tin Moe.
Regarding this Newsweek article, it is shamefully mis-titled. I wrote to Newsweek some days ago but did not hear back from them. Really, Ms. Liu spells out with perfect clarity that the regime has got to go and they are being propped up by petrodollars. Chevron and Total gave the regime a fifteen year lead over the current projects being contemplated. So the article should be entitled "How Sanctions Can Work."
It is so arrogant of the armchair headline-writers, and in particular the much weaker opinion piece by Zakaria, which appears to have been written inside a fact-vacuum, to ignore the call of Burma's elected leaders to pull business out. As you well know, our friends Taw Myo Mint and Myatt Kyaw Oo both called for Unocal/Chevron to get out of Burma, at the risk of being arrested and until their dying breaths.
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Kyi May,
How wonderful to have found your blog and your commentary on U Tin Moe.
Regarding this Newsweek article, it is shamefully mis-titled. I wrote to Newsweek some days ago but did not hear back from them. Really, Ms. Liu spells out with perfect clarity that the regime has got to go and they are being propped up by petrodollars. Chevron and Total gave the regime a fifteen year lead over the current projects being contemplated. So the article should be entitled "How Sanctions Can Work."
It is so arrogant of the armchair headline-writers, and in particular the much weaker opinion piece by Zakaria, which appears to have been written inside a fact-vacuum, to ignore the call of Burma's elected leaders to pull business out. As you well know, our friends Taw Myo Mint and Myatt Kyaw Oo both called for Unocal/Chevron to get out of Burma, at the risk of being arrested and until their dying breaths.
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