Japanese Journalist Killed in Burma Protest Crackdown

You know being back in America from a year living in Asia I try to keep up with all that goes on on that site of the world, I’ve been keeping up with the crisis in Myanmar, I felt strongly against the whole thing but this just brings it to another level. To kill an innocent man who was just recording the situation? How pathetic, not to sound all bad but it kind of reminds of the Japanese in China during WWII. None of this is new though, everyone knows majority of governments in South East Asia are BEYOND CORRUPT! The Military believes that because they hold the ammo, they control the power in most south east Asian countries. I am glad though to hear the US has taken a stance and put sanctions on the country, but the next key player in this is China, if that government doesn’t take the ability to do something, I feel like this issue will be drawn out for some time.

It’s about time Burma got some attention. Wnder if this will get Japanese companies, with the support of the Japanese government, to stop dealing with the junta. Wonder if Bush will carry through on his threat to isolate and make a pariah of any country that deals with Burma once someone tells him that includes Japan. D’oh!

Nagai is a hero. More shame on Burmese rulers. I heard on the radio that they say he was killed by a “stray bullet”. What a sad lie. A bullet that was intended to kill a Burmese civilian perhaps. It’s time for Burmese soldiers to turn their weapons on this pathetic regime and consign it to history.

Anything you need to know about the Burmese army can be seen from this guy’s footwear. Flip-flops for a soldier?? (And a three-sizes too big uniform). Looks like they’re just getting poor peasants off the rice fields and arming them.