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martedì, dicembre 18, 2007
Birmania. Invocazioni di aiuto, inascoltate. Ogni regime paranoico coltiva sogni malati di autosufficienza e quello di Than Shwe non fa eccezione. Nella realtà quotidiana invece la povertà attanaglia una popolazione allo stremo, al punto che il lavoro minorile non si limita ad essere scenario abituale nel panorama sociale birmano ma diventa bene da esportazione. Come si conduce al disastro una nazione ricca di risorse: la Birmania è un caso di scuola.
Sul fronte della repressione politica emergono altre testimonianze sull'uso di forni crematori a Yangon per cancellare le tracce delle vittime: A delegation of Buddhist witnesses who entered Myanmar posing as tourists to document the aftermath of September's monk-led uprising said secret talks with activists pointed to a death toll of at least 70, far above United Nations estimates of 31. "We were told by a reliable source that there were 70 people who were killed after the demonstrations, while they were being detained," she said. "We were told crematoriums were operating in the early hours of the morning between 1am and 4am." The stories, she said, tallied with Pinheiro's description of corpses, some seemingly the bodies of monks, being burned in suspicious circumstances at a Yangon crematorium, in an apparent attempt to hide the number of those killed. Before the crackdown, there were an estimated 500,000 monks and novices in Myanmar. Many are now missing, rights groups say. A Mae Sot gli oppositori in esilio progettano il futuro prossimo nella speranza che il sipario non cali definitivamente sul caso birmano. Si parla di obiettivi finali e di mezzi per raggiungerli, senza escludere nulla: Desperate to maintain the momentum of their challenge to military rule in Burma, opposition leaders in this border town are working with networks of supporters to get monks to return to the streets in protest, to push foreign governments to impose tougher sanctions and to persuade ethnic militias to resume guerrilla attacks. C'è bisogno di aiuto dall'esterno per continuare a lottare: For years, the U.S. government has taken the lead among foreign governments in providing funding for this kind of training and equipment. Those funds are likely to increase substantially in the coming year, if pending legislation moves through Congress. We are not talking about guns," said Maung Maung. "We want money for sat phones, for digital cameras, for typewriters for the monks, for bicycles. We need it now." But there is plenty of talk here about guns. It is focused on 17 ethnic groups that since the 1990s have suspended armed conflict with the military. Now, leaders of several of the ethnic groups are talking with the leaders of Suu Kyi's exiled political party and other opposition leaders about resuming their conflicts -- as a way of pressuring the military to negotiate seriously with Suu Kyi. "Without this kind of pressure, the military regime does not move, and that is for sure," said Mahn Sha, secretary general of the Karen National Union. The Karen have refused to sign a cease-fire with the military. Le onorificenze vanno bene ma per porre fine all'avvilimento di un popolo serve altro. C'è un paese intero che grida in silenzio, perché non può alzare la voce. |
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