Slorc is vulnerable

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>From July 7th Bangkok Post' Postbag)
Slorc is vulnerable

It is clear that Slorc interprets Asean acceptance as a blanket pardon 
for all its "internal affairs" (read "violence and injustice").

If Asean is true to its word, if "constructive engagement" is anything 
more than a show, Asean must assure Slorc they have no pardon. Not to 
lose all credibility, Asean may have to pressure or somehow persuade 
Slorc that at least some degree of integrity and civilised conduct is 
expected of all members.

No one believes seriously that drug production and refugee trouble are 
mere "internal matters". Indeed, Slorc has shown a growing vulnerability 
to pressure by extraditing heroin suspect Li Yun Chung to Thailand 
(albeit not directly to the US). They fear revelation of economic bad 
news and any exposure of factional disunity in the military by risking 
dialogue with the NLD or Aung San Suu Kyi. They do not even show any 
long term planning, but seem to sit out each year, week by week, with no 
more purpose than self-enrichment of the elite.

To quote from Dr Frederick S. Perls, one of the greatest psychologists 
of this century:

"... [re:] the multi-organism, or society, which consists of many 
people. The state, a society consists of many thousands of cells which 
have to be organised either by external control or inner control, and 
each society tends to actualise itself as this or that specific society. 
The Russian society actualises itself as what it is, the American 
society, the German society, the Congo tribes - they all actualise 
themselves, they change. And there is always a law in history: Any 
society that has outstretched itself and has lost its ability to 
survive, disappears. Cultures come - and go. And when a society is in 
clash with the universe, once a society transgresses the laws of nature 
- the universe and its laws - and become artifacts either as individuals 
or as society, then we lose our raison d'etre. We lose the possibility 
of existence."

A Burma Watcher



"THERE WILL BE NO REAL DEMOCRACY IF WE CAN'T GURANTEE THE RIGHTS OF THE 
MINORITY ETHNIC PEOPLE.  ONLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR SUFFERING AND HELPING 
THEM TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS WILL ASSIST PREVENTING FROM THE 
DISINTEGRATION AND THE SESESSION."  "WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THEIR 
STRENGTH, WE CAN'T TOPPLE THE SLORC AND BURMA WILL NEVER BE IN PEACE."


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