You certainly show some brilliance
in Burmese History to state that the British is directly
responsible for the state Myanmar is in right now ?
Perhaps you should have updated your info with a quick reference to
Wikipedia, it will reveal that the British had left Burma for more
then 50 years, ever since Aung San - the father of Aung Sang Suu
Kyi - led Burma to
independence in 1948 and became a member of the
Commonwealth until his assassination that led to the military
coup.
Which history book are you referring to when you make a statetment
that - 'The British is directly
responsible for the state of Myanmar right now' ?
Even the name Myanmar was not the responsibility of the British who
had used the name Burma for more then a hundred years since
colonising it in 1886.
If at all, it is the Myanmar's Military Junta that caused the
change in the country's name, to seemingly start with a clean slate
after years of accentuating the dividing lines amongst the ethnic
communities - by using one ethnic group to fight the other ethnic
groups that dare to oppose the military junta.
The Myanmar Military Junta has created a huge ethnic problem that
will explode to break up the country and destablised the entire
region, unless the healing hands of a national figure - in Aung San
Suu Kyi - is allowed to heal and unify the ethnic divisions that
the military has created.
Burma lacks the political institutions that will allow any form of
progressive civil political development and maturity to exist; and
Singapore is no different despite the false political environment
of democracy, with the image boosted by material progress.
Singapore under the autocratic rule of the POWER OF ONE - is as
politically bankrupt as Myanmar is under the military
autocrats.
It is compassionate to feel for the people, their plight and
predicaments. But to spill meaningless rhetorics is plain
stupidity. In another thread 'SG worse than Myanmar', I can't help
laughing at the many idiots who agreed. These people should go and
stay in Myanmar till the junta give up. In the meantime, they can
also tell the Burmese how fortunate they are because SG is worse
than Myanmar. It would bring consolations for them. They are
already so poor, backward and repressed and to hear stories of how
bad SG is compared to their own country will certainly lift their
spirits!!
The Burmese will definitely have
their spirits lifted to know that despite material progress,
Singaporeans remain subjected to the same kind of political
regimentation as the Burmese are experiencing despite the
''poverty'' that they are supposed to be suffering.
The Burmese will surely have their spirits lifted to know that they
have at least the ability and moral courage to stand up against the
brutality of a regime that is willing to use live bullets to
suppress them.
Even as Singapore is seen to be wealthy, there are as much poverty
that exist in Singapore - material, financial, spiritual, and most
of all political poverty.
The majority of Singaporeans will be poor by the time they reached
retirement age, as the bulk of their retirement funds will be
swallowed up in the over priced properties that the Singapore
Autocrats have created with its 'property casino environment', which
they have private interest in to keep the property sector buoyantly
hot.
Are the Burmese materially poorer than Singaporeans ?
The Burmese enjoy having a wide array of food at their open air
markets that are available at
prices that are commensurate to their
wages, and the Military Junta - like the Singapore
Autocrats - have ensured that the stomachs are filled while the
minds are dulled.
Yet, despite supposedly ''good'' living conditions by Burmese
standards, the Burmese are struggling and opposing a supposedly
benevolent Government - that takes as much from the citizens as
they are seen to be giving {SG has been providing political lessons
to the Burmese junta, as much as China has voluntarily decide to
learn about the SG politics of maintaining a One Party
State}.
Burma - today - has living conditions similar to Singapore in the
1950s, with the majority of the Burmese being unaware of what life
in Singapore is like today. Singaporeans, who have lived through
the experience of the 1950s, will know that Singaporeans were not
complaining of their conditions then, and even had more then enough
to look after a huge family - compared to Singaporeans today
struggling to keep a 2-child family despite the huge wage
difference from the 1950s.
''Ignorance is bliss'' - and yet, the Burmese has the inspiration
to fight for their political rights that has been usurped from
them, as much as the few politically concious Singaporeans are also
demanding for our political rights to be returned to us.
It was the recent fuel price increases in Myanmar that provided the
spark that cause the Burmese to be more vocal, and it was the
brutal and morally bankrupt military - which is conscientiously
detached from the population - that used brutal and excessive force
in suppressing the Burmese demands for change.
The Singapore Police Force are similarly trained in using deadly
force as the last option; and despite more then 50 years of
non-riots, the Singapore Government has seen fit to purchase crowd
control water cannons fitted onto police trucks, as well as an
array of riot control devices and soft weapons to be used against
Singaporeans.
Suppressing those who will dare to stand-up and be counted for the
sake of the country.
Is there any political difference between the scenario of a First
World Singapore and a supposedly Third World Myanmar ?
In anycase, it will not take a stretch of imagination to know the
attraction and relationship between a 'pile of crap' and a 'crap sniffer'
