Well if you have been paying any attention to the news you will have see the stories coming out of the country formally know as Burma and know known as Myanmar. The news is not good though many countries in the world right now are having trouble with good government; Sudan, North Korea, Iraq and Iran to name just a few. But for me the beating, disappearing and murder of Buddhist monks in Myanmar is a tragedy. Nothing today in the news can get down more than to think that we could see another Cambodia or Rwanda. The BBC was reporting that many monks where trying to get out of Rangoon, but that some drivers of buses and trucks where refusing to take them. They did not want to be seen by the authorities as trying to help.
I could decide to laugh or cry when I saw that the UN had sent another one of their useless envoy to talk to another criminal government. A government that seized power, from a duly elected government. The Junta has taken very step possible to hide their crimes, but cutting off every possible communication link to the outside world. What did these monks do, but protest peacefully. Did they call for violence, no. Right now you can guarantee that monks are being herded up and disappeared, murdered or sent to remote detention centres. What will happen there? As an amateur astronomer I see thing that are 100 or millions of light years away, I study objects with life spans of billions of years. Well this Junta will not last even a blink in comparable time. When they are gone and Burma/Myanmar is free of their cancer and we find out just what happened to those brave enough to stand up and say enough. Will you have given any thought to their lives, deaths and tragedies?