About The Myanmar Situation

I’m surprised this isn’t bigger news, but the actions of the Myanmar junta are reprehensible and something clearly needs to be done. Frankly, I’m surprised the UN hasn’t done a thing against the regime and I don’t even understand why it exists anymore if it can’t take action. It’s not bad enough that Myanmar is denying visas to aid workers, then taking the foreign aid and putting their own names on it. It seems that the regime is only interesting in solidifying its power rather than helping its people. This is seen in the holding a constitutional referendum yesterday despite the fact the most of the country is trying to piece their lives together rather than voting. Now, the only thing people in Burma can rely on are the monks, the same monks beaten and roughed up in the protests last fall are clearing the roads and feeding the people while going hungry themselves. I hope this serves as a wakeup call to the international community that the government on Myanmar is corrupt and illegitimate

Thus the solution,

China must stop propping the junta up. Clearly, even they can see the wrong here. After than, the UN needs to organize an intervention comprising of Chinese and American forces as well neighbors such as Thailand and India to take out the junta in a peacekeeping operation. From there, we can finally deal with the situation. This needs to happen very very soon, as people will start dying for hunger and disease. If we don’t do this, 1.5 million people will die and refugees will flood other countries, especially Thailand. I remember either last month or two months ago, 40 or 50 Burmese migrant workers suffocated in a van going to Phuket. We’ll see more of this is something isn’t done to help Myanmar. This won’t be an occupation, we can be out of there in a little as a year with a democratic government in place. We need to do this, for the people, for the monks and especially for the dying children.