Normally I write about climate change. But today I realized there’s not much point in trying to save the future when hostile military regimes are murdering innocent people in the present.
Today the Burmese Junta opened fire on peaceful protesters, including thousands of Buddhist monks, brutally gunning down at least nine people.
China, the country’s main weapons supplier, refuses to intervene, or to stop weapons supplies. Their only comment was that they hope “the situation there [in Burma]... does not get complicated.”
In my opinion 9 dead people is very complicated.
In recent days the main source of news from the country has been digital images smuggled out by email, because western journalists have not been allowed in. I’m guessing that the internet is also the only way to get news IN to the country.
So let’s all today use the internet. Let’s have an impromptu Blog Action Day to protect the Burmese people, or to at least encourage them. Go to your own blogs and write about it. Comment on other blogs that already have written about it. Let the people know we support them. Make some buzz in the blogosphere.
