Tragedy comes to Burma: Please act now.

This is wrong. This is not how the world is supposed to be.
I will spare you the history lesson, that's what wikipedia is for...but seriously,
what's happening in Burma rings with the same grief stricken cry as Cambodia, Rwanda, South Africa, Croatia....




I hope and pray that we will not witness anything like the mass murder on the scale of other tragic genocides and events of mass murder in the past century, but for as long as Burma's influential neighbors (the most important of those being China) are content to simply turn a blind eye to the countries internal policies, that fear remains a very real one. While China still has the ghost of Tiananmen Square to haunt it, it will be keen to avert the worlds attention from it's appalling record of human rights which is still continuing.

One fearless source of truth one what's happening in Burma right now is Ko Htike's blog...he has been tracked and blocked by government sources, but he's still publishing posts, you can find his blog with shocking pictures of the situation on the streets of Rangoon here: Ko Ktike's Blog

Also, if you haven't already, please sign this petition on behalf of the citizens and monks of Burma, hundreds of whom have been carted off in government trucks in the last 48hours, following violent night raids on monasteries.

Petition

There is also a brilliant blog here which details the shocking treatment of monks by the military over the past few days: with bowl and robe

Feeling useless in a situation is not an excuse to do nothing. The monks of Burma have shown immense bravery and courage by standing up to the oppressive military regime in their country using nonviolence (the image of Monks walking their Alms rounds with bowls turned upside down in defiance and protest at accepting food from their government is such a powerful striking image. this is a military government which of course continues to deny Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi her rightful place as democratic leader of her country.

You can also read the Dalai Lama's open letter of support to the Burmese people here : Letter