Save the Burmese Monks! October 2, 2007
Posted by NettyD in Religion, Theories and Thoughts, U.S. and World News.trackback
[Photo courtesy of chinapost.com]
4,000 Burmese monks who were detained after participating in pro-democracy protests against the country’s military, are now going to be “sent away” from Rangoon. A militia source says that the monks have been disrobed and shackled, and are refusing to eat. (BBC News)
This is an atrocity!! Where is the international community? What crime have these monks committed? The people of Burma are suffering under an oppressive military-led government and these monks were attempting to rally the people of the country to stand up against it.
How can the rest of the world sit back and just let this happen? Any silence or inaction opens the door for other countries to think they can get away with this behavior.
Does anyone have any information about what one person can do for these monks? If so, I’ll post it and try to rally the blog community into helping. I’ll be finding ways too.
For more information about the background of this story visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7010202.stm
Of course there is something that can be done. I feel first of the ’so-called’ religious communities should stand up and take notice of this. Although they may not believe in their beliefs, these are peaceful, loving people. Their awareness and giving souls are beyond most.
I with my own spiritual beliefs feel compassion for these people and pray that their will be one hell of an uprising to help them.
It seems that lately the media is too hung up on who is saying what against another, instead of moving forward in a positive way. It’s all tit for tat. Sickening. They call that journalism. It looks to me more like a bunch of out of control children on a playground.
Let’s see what makes money …sex,movie stars having marital problems, trivial crap, thats what it is. Wake up!!!!!!! world, take notice of the real people that need your assistance.
The end.
Do they have Oil over there?