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Subject: Re: The abject poverty of the Burmese people

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Dear Dawn Star,

please don't mistake all government workers or civil servants as
pro-SPDC. Some reasons for taking 3 Dollars are reduced rice prices,
sometimes a bit more access to news, extrem easy work and the
oppurtunity to take bribes which enhance the 3 Dollar to 30 Dollars a
month.

There are a lot of people who take a job in the government just for this
reasons. I would not say, all of them are pro-SPDC by heart. Many of
them pretend and take such jobs just for the opportunity to get a few
privileges more.

The people we need to take care of, are the people who are working in
the ministries and there also not the secretaries, but the decision
makers.

BTW: Officially a general is earning 50 Dollars a month :-)
BTW2: My wife was one of the 3-Dollar earners (1500 Kyat). She was an
assistant lecturer at the RIT. She took part in the 1988 demonstrations
and is now a democracy activist.

Regards
Heiko

Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> How many people does it take to run a dictatorship? What do government
> workers do, at 3 dollars a month? Is there any work? Or its just a
> title, like a movie ticket, to say you've been there, party member, part
> of the government machine at 3 dollars a month?
> 
> People around the world are shaking their heads at the Burmese enslaved
> population. It used to be said, by socialist workers, that working for
> wages, was slavery. Well, three dollars a month, when the head of
> Merrill Lynch, the banking company that pushed Total Fina to takeover
> Elf, makes over a hundred million dollars a year, there is definitely
> something very insanely upside down about the passivity, the indolence,
> the indifference, the soulless, wanton lost character about the burmese
> slaves.
> 
> Johnny Rebel of the Student Warriors tried to shake them up. Perhaps
> there is nothing inside to shake up. I don't know what has happened to
> these people who think life is worth living at 3 dollars a month.
> Perhaps they are just waiting for eternity. If thats the case, they
> might just as well be dead. And take up the fight, to live, or die.
> 
> Nothing less when they got nothing to lose.
> 
> Think about it.
> 
> By the way, the head of the money trail, one of them, chairman of
> Merrill Lynch, DAvid H Komansky, with a sagging chin and bulging neck so
> fat you wonder if he has a neck at all, or maybe his face might just
> dissolve into one fat blob of excess and greed,
> says this:
> 
> "Now that we are entering a new century, and a new millennium, I find
> myself more optimistic than ever before in my life."
> 
> And he doesnt give a shit about Burma. And neither does Total Fina, or
> the French government of Chirac, Jospin, and their rich business
> friends.  Think about that too.
> 
> In the future, no one is really going to give a damn about the Burmese
> people if they dont fight for their own liberty. The junta is getting so
> much money pumped in through the back door pipeline. This drug
> production is definitely NOT going away. You can expect it to double
> soon. There is so much money in drugs, and money laundering.
> 
> Until there is a genuine revolution in the spirit, until the people take
> up their will and disarm the bastards, its three dollars a month, or
> less.
> 
> Nobody can put a price on a human life. Not for three dollars.
> 
> ds*
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