Couple of news caught my attention this week.....make you wonder
when are the pets going to bit the owners....
The first -- Russian deployed
missile defence system near N.K border against strayed missile! I
thought it was Russia technology that the NK were using. Now the
Protected state has Nuke that might threaten the Protector state……
ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Russia
has deployed a missile defence system near its border with North
Korea and is studying other measures to protect its population from
stray missiles, Russia's top general said on
Wednesday…………..
…………."We already have an S-400
division there," he said, referring to a modernised version of a
Soviet-designed surface-to-air missile unit.
The 2nd news – Thousand of Myanmar
ethnic Chinese refugees flee to China…..would we see another lesson
incursion to the Myanmar junta……what is Singapore
govt position?
By Barbara Demick
August 29, 2009
Thousands of
Myanmar refugees flee to China
“Skirmishes between Myanmar's military regime and
ethnic minorities prompt the exodus, signaling a further fracture
of a 20-year cease-fire
Reporting from Beijing -
Thousands of refugees from Myanmar have poured across the border
into China in recent weeks amid troubling signs that a 20-year
cease-fire between ethnic minorities and Myanmar's military rulers
might be unraveling.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said as many as 30,000
people had fled fighting in Myanmar; sources on the Chinese side of
the border put the figure at 5,000 to 10,000.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu in a statement Friday
urged the Myanmar government to "safeguard the regional stability
of its bordering area with China."
A Chinese intelligence officer in Nansan, a border town, said the
Chinese government was arranging emergency housing for refugees in
an attempt to restore stability.
The Chinese are in an awkward position; on one hand, China is the
only real ally of the authoritarian regime in the country also
known as Burma. But many of the rebels are ethnic Chinese who had
been living more or less autonomously in what is called the Kokang
region. That autonomy has been threatened recently by the military
regime's plans to dissolve the ethnic militia by incorporating
their fighters into a national border police.
"We are just like our own small kingdom on the Burmese border. . .
. That is what we are trying to defend," said Aung Kyaw Zaw, a
former rebel who lives in exile in Ruili on the Chinese side of the
border……….. .”