The unfortunate situation that the Burmese people today and for decades, can not leave us indifferent. The days of peaceful protests led by monks against the ruling regime headed by a corrupt and brutal military rule, is in terrible danger of being drowned in blood.
Throughout history we have witnessed many such episodes, of varying magnitude, but always tinged with the most absolute tragedy. We can not stop quickly recall the Prague Spring, Budapest, Tiananmen, etc.. Because there is a tragedy when human rights are systematically violated and silenced his claim by force of who holds power of arms.
However, as horrific reality is only possible when there are other elements that come together to make this possible. Factors of power, regional equilibrium strategies and global economic, socio-political, indolent indifference ...
In the case of Burma, without attempting a gross simplification, we note three components gravitantes.
Inaction Chinese giant's accomplice (the same China of the Olympic Games 2008) by action or omission that allows this human catastrophe and should not surprise anyone. China has its own history of lack of freedom, brutal repression and shameful persecution of dissidents in the past 60 years, until today.
The inability of the West, and now comes to us, to articulate truly effective measures to limit and mitigate this type of dictatorial regimes and monstrous, we evidence that the ideals of freedom and democracy so dear to Western culture are just a longing too distant for the Burmese people.
Burma in 1988 suffered at the hands of the same military junta bloody and fierce, a clear demonstration of effective methods that are always willing to use his tormentors, to silence all claims of essential freedoms. The international community objected to a greater or lesser extent, with different flats. But the course has not changed and the test parts we refer. Finally a passive observation, tinged with condemnation safe.
The obvious question of this editorial is, free societies on this side of the globe: Have we learned anything from Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge? Never more true than history is also a matter of survival. Daniel
Pisoni (Under the auspices of CEIHE)
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