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Old 08-31-2009, 07:06 AM
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Default Well I guess only in the movies the good guys win.... :(

For those of you who have seen Rambo (2008) and it's depiction of the ruthless Myanmar Government and it's campaigns against the outer ethnic tribal regions of the country.....

According to recent news reports, it looks like the Myanmar Junta Military is kicking the rebel's asses.
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Old 09-01-2009, 04:31 AM
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What did Rambo leave Burma or something? Get him back on that fifty!
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Old 09-01-2009, 05:08 AM
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I saw that report earlier, The Rebels had to throw down their arms in order to be allowed to flee into China or something.
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Old 10-16-2009, 08:11 PM
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Missed this, weird...

Anyway, while the junta in Burma is one of the worst regimes in the world, I do hope you guys realize that the "rebels" are probably going to be just as bad? Maybe I'm being cynical here, but I've studied Third World civil wars long enough to know that there are almost never any good guys in these kinds of wars. Whether it's in Africa, South Asia, or Latin America, just about every armed rebel group is just as bad as the government they're trying to overthrow. It doesn't matter whether they call themselves socialists, communists, nationalists, democrats, or "freedom fighters" - they're almost always guaranteed to be oppressive autocrats if/when they take power in the capital city.

From what I've read, the KNLA (the largest Karen militia in Burma) has its own rep for atrocities (including the use of child soldiers), though probably not as bad as the junta. It may claim to want democracy, but there's a big difference between talk and deeds. Jonas Savimbi used to say he was an anti-communist freedom fighter to his American backers...at the same time he was telling his Chinese backers that he was fighting to establish a Maoist socialist system in Angola. You just can't trust these kinds of people.
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