| Recently, due to the military crackdown on Buddhist monks and other civilian protestors in Myanmar, I've started reading up more on Myanmar and also Darfur in Sudan. Then, I realised that China has a part to play in the military government in these two places. Seems like China has been supplying arms and military aircraft to Myanmar and Darfur because China has vested interest in them. The violence that has been going on in Myanmar for the past few days (weeks??) has been plain horrible. You can visit these two blogs for updates from two Burmese who are in Myanmar: http://niknayman.blogspot.com/ (Burmese version) http://www.ko-htike.blogspot.com/ (English translation) By the way, I've read somewhere that it is not China's responsibility alone, but the Western world (Europe, US etc) have responsibilities too. I agree that it is not fair of Westerners to put the responsibility solely on China to stop the violence in Myanmar and Darfur. However, China should at least stop supplying arms and other military equipment to the government in Myanmar and Darfur. What do the citizens of China think of all this? Feeling very sad and sorry for the victims of the military crackdown in Myanmar, Ling *:~( |
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