What’s happening in Burma (police state)?
Burma's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi |
Now it is 1984, knock-knock at your front door
Authoritarian surveillance: 1984 |
This and England (because Burma was a colony of England) is where Big Brother was always watching. the propaganda of the "Ministry of Truth" was always being manufactured and disseminated, and the Thought Police were everywhere looking for any inkling of dissent.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." Now is the time for revolution, following the time when Buddhist monks rose up against a despotic government in what came to be called the "Saffron Revolution."
From ethnic cleansing to military coup
What the generals did to a Burmese ethnic minority called the Rohingya (with the tacit approval of the majority of ethnic Burmans, who say these Muslims are not Burmese at all but long time interlopers from the British colonial period of WW II), it is now doing to ethnic Burmans and the majority of the population:
The “ethnic cleansing” of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims explained
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