Blogging Burma
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Listed above are some voices attempting to blog information from within Burma to get the word out on what is going on there. It's being reported that bloggers within China are expressing support for the protesters. But one blogger reports that the government has shut down the country's internet connection and Western reports are depressingly garbled, unsure even as to whether monks have been killed or not as the junta's troops have repeatedly fired into the massive crowds seeking to disperse them. They say a Japanese photographer, Kenji Nagai (shown below lying wounded in the street still trying to snap photos) is among the fatalities.
The Bush Administration is imposing sanctions on the individual members of the junta, and even Laura Bush has boldly condemned the world's silence -- led chiefly by the malignant pairing of Russia and China, who have blocked responsive action in the U.N.
Can anyone explain to me how Russia, which is not only obstructing pro-democracy action in Burma but obliterating democracy at home in a nation that covers 11 time zones and giving the same diplomatic cover to Iran as it seeks to engulf the world in an atomic jihad, can be allowed a seat on the G-7 panel of leading democracies? Recall that in just a few months ago Russia announced its intention to build a nuclear reactor for the Burmese military junta, just as it is already doing for the maniacal ruler of Iran. Although the Bush administration, to its credit, is doing the right thing on Burma itself, where is our policy regarding Russia? Mired in catastrophe after Bush "looked into Putin's soul." Too bad he didn't manage to see Burma or Iran reflected there. Where are the reports of bloggers within Russia showing support for Burma? When, dear Lord, is the POTUS going to come to his senses and back away from his dear darling little friend Pooty-poot? Time is most surely running out.
View dramatic Washington Post photos of the carnage here.
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