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The comparison of Burma's recent gestures of conciliation with Beijing's 2008 Olympics is ominous. The human rights record of the single-party authoritarian PRC government has worsened since the 2008 Olympics, breaking the promises that the PRC government made to the International Olympic Committee, with the largest crackdown on dissent since the 1989 massacre and crackdown on the Chinese people's movement by the CCP regime. If the Myanmar government is aspiring to follow the lead of the PRC, we could be seeing a reversion to even more harsh police-state tactics in the near future than we saw back when Aung Sang Ssu Kyi was being kept under house arrest all those years. It turns out that Beijing's promises were just window dressing, and that its top priority is to maintain the monopoly of one-party rule in China at any cost. Will Burma's government try to pull off a similar trick as its long-standing authoritarian ally, the PRC?
Nov 16, 2011 03:31 PM
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