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lunedì, febbraio 11, 2008

Nessuno immaginava di andare verso la vendetta. Come ampiamente prevedibile saranno le milizie in borghese del regime ad occuparsi dell'organizzazione e del controllo dei risultati nel referendum e nelle elezioni promesse dalla giunta birmana. I membri dell'USDA sono pronti a costituirsi in partito e a diventare a tutti gli effetti l'ala politica della dittatura militare. L'avventura comunque non è cominciata benissimo:

The body of a Union Solidarity and Development Association was found beheaded in Htantabin township, Rangoon division, on 4 February, local residents said.
The USDA member, whose name was not given, was from Thone Thate ward in Hlaing Tharyar township, Rangoon division.
A resident of Hlaing Tharyar said that the USDA member had been decapitated and his skin partially removed.
“All the nerves on his body were exposed and his head was stuck up on a bamboo pole,” the resident said.

Forse i comandamenti del buddismo non contemplano la vendetta. Ma Goldie Shwe non riesce proprio a trattenere la sua rabbia in uno scritto che meglio di un saggio definisce i limiti della nonviolenza:

So why then was I so jubilant, why did I jump up and down in celebration over a horrible murder case?

Every item of news and report that I find about Burma has been nothing but intimidation, bullying, torture and the killing of the people by cowardly junta. I have become unable to feel anything other than cold anger, indignation, outrage at the appalling record of the junta.

Yes, we are Buddhist. And yes, the Lord Buddha told us not to kill. And yet, I applauded the cruel murder. My own reaction has shocked me so I had to decide to give myself some time to reflect. After a sleepless night, thinking through every aspect, I still feel exactly the same. I still strongly believe that the murdered junta thug thoroughly deserved his fate. It seems to be the only way that people of Burma can get some form of justice. The ordinary people of Burma are at war with the cruel bullies, torturers and killers of the junta, and this murder somehow seems a fair response to the decades of abuse and robbery. The fight-back may have begun.

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