Burma - what can we do?

Question

I don't know what the governments will do, they won't want to upset China. But what can we do?

Answer 1

A lot of people know about the situation now who were ignorant of it before. World opinion is now turned against Burma / Mayanmar.
But world opinion was turned against China during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989, and nothing changed. Now we all use Chinese goods and think nothing of it.
Nothing was done about Tibet when it was overrun and annexed by China in 1950.
Nothing was done about Cyprus when Turkey moved in and partitioned it in 1974.
Whether anything can be done is debatable. While the concept of a global police force is attractive, the debacle of Iraq proves it is impossible to administer.
While many of us would like a free world, it is still a place where might is right in many places and the oxymoron 'fighting for peace' is still the accepted solution almost everywhere else.

Answer 2

What is happening in Burma right now should give the lulled citizens of the world a reality check. The leaders of the world do nothing. Bush "froze assets", as usual, prioritizing money over lives. What can we do? Boycott everything Chinese. That should have some small impact on Burma. The less money the Chinese have, the less weapons they'll be able to make for sale to the military dictatorship of Burma.

President Bush is a hypocrite. The United Nations is a Farce. Americans are carried off to war to fight for the greed of people in power, not for freedom and liberty.

The world is upside down. Truth is now bad.

Answer 3

I you are religious i guess you could pray. Otherwise its just watch the horror unfolding in front of your eyes like the rest of us.
There will be no end to this until the soldiers have regained control. Only then when the dust has settled and the blood been washed away can there be peace in Burma.

Answer 4

I just think it's all one huge tragedy and I really feel for the people of Burma. I greatly admire their courage in the face of a vicious and nasty, nasty regime and I really do wish them well. Hopefully their government will one day be no more.

This would be a case for the West to intervene in but with the hypocricy that abounds in world politics, that will never happen, will it?

Answer 5

We can send our Liberal Journalist there to solve the problem...they seem to have all these answers at hand. That would be an excellent place for them to install their form of democracy,to prove to the world that they have the answers....I understand that would take courage in a form they seem to lack and give up some of the luxuries that America affords them....to which they make a living running down America. So off you go CNN, Katie Couric, NY Times, Time Mag, and all you good Libs....please go, I will be watching.

Answer 6

Nothing as we have tried for years to make the world listen. those that run Myanmar are corrupt bar stewards (forgive the use of puns). Bring back Burma.

Answer 7

say China is selfish!!!
so many people was killed but China was just sit down and watch people in Burma dead, and not gonna do anything.

Answer 8

you can email your MP to ask him to ask gordon brown to put pressure on china and the UN to do something

lol you could have an indian tonight instead of a chinese

Answer 9

Why should we in the U.K. worry about these tinpot countries they could not get rid of us quick enough so they could get there sticky fingers in the till.Look after our own first and tell all these ex colonies to bugger of they got what they wanted, rid of whitey

Answer 10

What is happening there is shocking. Maybe the UN should take action.

After Iraq I doubt if the Americans will want to go in.....There is no oil!!!