Shoot On Sight, Human Rights In Burma
If there’s anything that gets my blood boiling, it is the killing and murder of innocent individuals, and the the sidetracking of human and civil rights. For the people of Burma, there is no more such thing as Human Rights, there is just a human will — to live.
Background: Since August 19, 2007 there has been a series of peaceful protests across Burma as monks, activists and ordinary citizens challenge misrule and repression. On September 26, the Burmese military government responded with violence. Thousands of protestors have been seized and taken away.
Meanwhile, in eastern Burma, a 45-year catastrophe has reached one of its worst moments, as the country’s military junta escalates its attacks against the area’s ethnic minorities. The government’s efforts to assert control over ethnic border areas have emptied over 3,000 villages in a decade, an average of almost one village each day over the past ten years. The forces of Burma’s military junta, the State Peace & Development Council (SPDC), are mortaring villages, looting and burning homes to the ground, and destroying crops in an effort to obliterate the livelihoods of rural communities. Burmese soldiers are ordered to shoot civilians on sight.
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