Another sad day in Burma

Posted by vincevincevince on August 11, 2009

Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced for 18 months house arrest on what are clearly trumped-up charges. How can 18 months be an appropriate sentence for someone who’s great crime was to have an uninvited guest?

At least now when the joke election comes the world will have this latest abuse fresh in its mind. Whether the Junta believe that they have silenced the opposition through this I do not know, but I am certain that nobody outside Burma will give them any credit whatsoever when the joke democracy comes to pass.

Gentlemen; if it is not possible for you to be ousted entirely, 100%, and with no residual influence then it is not democracy. At least when your focus was being on a repressive abusive dictatorship you were honest about it.

Now, let us hope that the situation does not erupt into violence but instead that the cry of the people will be heard by God who will certainly repay them for their loss and bring those responsible to justice in this world or the next.

Let us all pray that all those who flee the repressive conditions in Burma are given a chance to make a new life outside of the country by the nations to which they escape. It is bad enough to be abused and persecuted in your own country, but to then have the same treatment where you flee for refuge is truly terrible.

Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.
(Proverbs 21:13)