The Various Wicked Means of the Internal Destructionists in Myanmar

Kerry Howley | September 25, 2007

The state-controlled New Light of Myanmar responds to the monk protests with a long, creatively grammatical "supplication" from the Minister of Religion. As the exasperated minister tells it, brainwashed young monks have been staging images of their own abuse and posting lunatic rants on the internet. The brainwashers? Foreigners and communists.

The root cause of the above-mentioned problems is the perpetration of internal and external destructionists, who are jealous of national development and stability, to harm all the government's endeavours through various methods.

Internal and external destructionists do not even spare the religion if it is in their interest. They dare instigate young monks, who are trying hard in the religious studies, to stage street protests.

Since their instigation targeting the public did not work, they started agitating the young monks who have no knowledge of social and political affairs as they have devoted to the Buddha's teachings. Included in their agitated words were even exaggerating the government's minor weaknesses by describing themselves as saviours of the troubled people. In some cases, the agitators ployed various wicked means such as painting pictures of torturing the monks, acting themselves for the torture and posting the news events on the Internet, threatening the big monasteries by phone through their raised hardcores, threatening those who do not want to stage protests to be blacklisted on the Internet after collecting their names and those who dare not go outside will be sent Htamain (women's wear).

That last line is open to interpretation.

Whole thing here. Latest news from Yangon here.

Comments

|9.25.07 @ 11:26AM|#

"You only think you are impoverished and oppressed because of evil external destructionists"

Oh yeah, that'll work.

|9.25.07 @ 11:40AM|#

Warren - unfortunately, I think their clubs will be more persuasive than their words.

Brian Sorgatz|9.25.07 @ 11:40AM|#

...and those who dare not go outside will be sent Htamain (women's wear).

It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi is in drag.

|9.25.07 @ 11:42AM|#

...threatening the big monasteries by phone through their raised hardcores...

Is dude talking about boners?

|9.25.07 @ 11:49AM|#

Myanmar's new foreign minister: Borat.

|9.25.07 @ 12:27PM|#

There must be a deposed Nigerian official in there somewhere...

|9.25.07 @ 12:30PM|#

When the revolution comes in Myanmar, I will suspend my opposition to capital punishment. I did that for the Romanians, too.

|9.25.07 @ 12:41PM|#

it's a complete lie, which is a typical tactics that junta has used since their occupation of its own country and taken as hostage since 1962.

This is their last fight, but not a fight worth fighting. Junta is just a bunch of lunatics, where reasonable law and sound judgment will NEVER work, when dealing with them.

I hope there are more international pressures, supported by continued demonstrations for a few more days or weeks. If that happens, there is no other way for junta, except that their exit would be as brutal as they have done to innocent civilian people.

China is also dealing with double-edged sword. Stable, free and democratic Burma is dangerous for them, because Burmese people will have a BIG say in their rights as well as to their natural resources, which China has EXPLOITED by befriending with junta.

The time is finally coming....for evil faces, that are about to unfold....

sv|9.25.07 @ 1:22PM|#

wtf

|9.25.07 @ 1:27PM|#

Let me get this straight:

The agitators are threatening to send women's clothing?

If they're going to make implausible claims they should care enough to make them scary at least.*


*I know, I know, cultural differences and all that. It could well be a supreme insult in Burmese culture, of which I am completely ignorant. I still laugh though.

|9.25.07 @ 1:33PM|#

bbc.com has the protest as their lead story

Eric Dondero|9.26.07 @ 8:55AM|#

Must be kind of odd for the cynical libertarians at Reason and others, to be on the same side of President Bush for once. Bush, yesterday took a strong stance in fighting for freedom and democracy in the totalitarian state.

Don't hold your breath for any praise coming for libertarians for Bush's human rights stance.