satyagraha
(you can click on the photos to link through to the webpages from which I took them…)
Posted by in 02:25:03
Friday, September 28, 2007
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(you can click on the photos to link through to the webpages from which I took them…)
If Burma/Myanmar is anything like Thailand, protesting monks is a pretty Big Thing. It means it’s not a minority democracy movement, it’s something sanctioned by the biggest and most respected (and most politically powerful) religion in the region.
The closest analogy I can think of is it’s like if in NZ university lecturers organised a protest about student fees/loans.
One of those pics reminds me of the famous dude-in-front-of-a-tank-in-China picture.
Anyway… should we call it Burma or Myanmar? It was officially changed to to Myanmar a while ago, but it was changed by the dictatorship, so should we could it as legit?
-Dave
Pick your poison - Burma is the colonial name, Myanmar is the military name…
Should it be Burma or Myanmar?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7013943.stm
& some more discussion here:
http://volokh.com/posts/1191520713.shtml
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