ditchman Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Now.............................is she as a hardline Buddist showing her true colours...and allowing this ethnic cleansing she hasnt the power to stop what is going on... i have a sneaking suspision that it is # 1.....judging by the press releases she has done in the last few days....virtually deniying that anything of significance is going on............ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Some awful genocide going on over there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Who knows why she hasn't been more vocal in her condemnation of the genocide? Her legacy is tainted now of that there is no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Who knows why she hasn't been more vocal in her condemnation of the genocide? Her legacy is tainted now of that there is no doubt. can a Nobel peace medal be revoked ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 She needs to speak up. Her problem is that speaking up probably won't get anything done and may lose her any power she has right now. The difficulty lies in the Burma Constitution. 25% of their parliament is reserved for the Military. She's not the head of state (she can't be, again under the constitution) and, whilst she is de facto head of government, she's not the head of her party. I'd imagine there are plenty of people in her party who would happily turn a blind eye to what's going on too. If she speaks up, she risks blowing any progression Burma's made since the 2015 general election. If she doesn't people will continue to die and it only seeks to underline how weak she is. Still. she needs to speak up, people are dying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 The thing that I can never understand is you get people in lots of countries all over the world living side by side for hundreds of years then one day it seems people suddenly change and turn into mad killers killing people that they know went to school with lived next door to I just do not get it. :no: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr D Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 I thought Desmond Tutu put it beautifully in his open letter. "My dear sister: if the political price of you ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 The thing that I can never understand is you get people in lots of countries all over the world living side by side for hundreds of years then one day it seems people suddenly change and turn into mad killers killing people that they know went to school with lived next door to I just do not get it. :no: There's nothing sudden about it. It's been going on over there for hundreds of years. Nothing will ever change while people are poisoned by religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 I really feel I'm at the point of despair where I genuinely no longer care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 (edited) Hi Her 'colours'/position is shown by her comment on record after being interviewed by Mishal Hussein of the BBC - '.. why didnt somebody tell me she's Muslim?'........... L Edited September 13, 2017 by Loki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 just watching some of that footage and stories coming out of Burma..................appalling...totally appalling......................yang-san-su-she has issued a statement that she will not be attending the UN summit........proberly worried they would grab her and send her off to the Hague... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 The thing that I can never understand is you get people in lots of countries all over the world living side by side for hundreds of years then one day it seems people suddenly change and turn into mad killers killing people that they know went to school with lived next door to I just do not get it. :no: When there's nowt on the box I have recently taken to watching all the films on Netflix marked 'critics' choice' and the documentaries section. Last night I watched a documentary on what turns people into genocidal killers and the focus of the documentary was the SS divisions who were tasked with the wholesale murder of Jews, political prisoners, Russians etc. and culminating in women and children. The obvious question was how do you go from normal person to soldier to murderer of women and children and in such a short space of time. Broadly, the platoon leaders were all highly educated (beyond degree). One SS division had 8 platoon leaders with PHDs. They were intellectuals, lawyers, doctors etc. They were chosen for their intellect and ability to present and spin the most evil orders into something that was normal and in pursuit of the greater Nazi dream and there was of course the disassociation that the people being killed were human - they were sold as less than human. More troubling were the local partisans - local militia, police and thugs. The SS were there to use them and manipulate them into doing most of the dirty work. This was the neighbour raping and killing their neighbour scenario. There was no answer but the sense was that if you were a nasty ****** and could do as you wished and all around you of like mind could do as they wished then there's something nasty and deep within some human psyche that doesn't think twice. Could anyone ever imagine a set of circumstances where they would slaughter their neighbours from children to grandparents? Every conflict shows that no matter what people say or say they think, it's in people. The SS documentary showed the speed - first collaborators, then alleged spies, then men of a fighting age from the same community, then the women and children. And Germany was an advanced and established society and culture and it didn't take them that long.... Pretty depressing really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 and it still goes on................................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Human nature and the depths of depravity it will sink to are truly terrifying, the only thing that keeps the lid on it is accountability to society via the law, and fear of the punishment for getting caught! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Human nature and the depths of depravity it will sink to are truly terrifying, the only thing that keeps the lid on it is accountability to society via the law, and fear of the punishment for getting caught! True but if that same society and the 'law' that protects it are the ones responsible for these atrocities or at least instigating them in some way, what then? We have seen it throughout history, the nazis, kemhur(sp) rouge, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Assad, ad nauseum, to name a very few of the recent history ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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