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If you want a quick illustration of how much some things are changing in Myanmar then this article is a pretty good place to start. Let’s tick off the key parts of the story.
Facebook. Popular protest. Protestors greivances aired. Quoted responses from two government representatives. Clear official sympathy for the greivances, with some indication of improvements to come.
Kudos to all the journalists in Myanmar who are now getting a chance to show what they can really do.
Full media freedom in Myanmar? Will the day arrive sooner than many thought?
“Full media freedom in Myanmar? Will the day arrive sooner than many thought?”
Someone will need to be reminded the ‘double edge sword” nature of media freedom.
Already the Power that be is attributing its obvious incompetency of delivering the most basic necessity to the fault of the rebels and on air/empty promises.
Use of either Facebook ,Twitter or any other internet based medium that require a certain amount of technological sophistry will not be forthcoming to majority of Myanmar Citizenry until the very basics of a desperate citizenry well beings is defined and addressed.
Can the most basic need of a citizenry well defined in various forums includ5ng here at New Mandala that has been ignored by the West be now reminded by such fleeting, self absorbing generation’s medium such as Facebook?
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plan B,
Just shoot the messenger, why don’t you? That appears to be your preoccupation all along anyway.
And I’m sure the welfare of the Myanmar Citizenry continues to be the responsibility of the West, nothing to do with the rulers of this cursed land. Engagement too little too late for you? You want the fires in the kitchen and the hearth stoked up while the house is leaking from the rooftop and being inundated.
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“Engagement too little too late for you?”
Too little too late:
By what great MEASURE will you use to claim as enough REDEMPTION for the near 3 decades of co-deprivation iniquities, by SPDC and the West, the latter that you have chosen so EARLY, readily and quickly to exonerate at the expense of your own?
Ko Moe Aung
You will need to white wash a lot faster, or make empty excuses akin to ‘the regional government’ of Mandalay ( RGM), just to cover , the unfolding Kachin War, a direct result and the inertia from the previous West policy.
Thein Sein et al/ RGM surely is doing a great job using Facebook┬о for their short comings.
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