8.8.88

Posted on August 8, 2008

While world attention was diverted to the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, there was hardly any mention of the significance of the date for one of the Chinese dictatorship’s client states. Today is the twentieth anniversary of the slaughter of Burmese democracy protesters by the military régime after the 8.8.88 uprising. The ‘State Peace and Development Council’ (formerly the ‘State Law and Order Restoration Council’) brutally suppresses all dissent and refuses to transfer power to the elected government of the country.

In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the SPDC preferred to let starving and sick people die rather than allow foreign aid to reach them, and evicted the homeless from shelter to provide polling stations for the sham referendum. Meanwhile Western corporations, drawn by Burma’s natural resources, grow rich from the slavery of the Burmese people.

There were protests in London,Thailand and elsewhere. 48 Burmese activists were reportedly arrested in Taunggok.

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