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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
its too bad the people are left totally defenseless and that the police and military are the only ones with firearms. (yes, I know, this isn't about gun control....but it sure does raise an interesting point.)
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You're kidding, right... we're talking about Buddhist monks here. BUDDHIST MONKS. And you think they ought to be *armed*?
I'm back in Iceland now, and while the Burma news is no longer making the front page here, I'm still hearing stories about it hourly on BBC radio (one of my most important sources of news here). We don't have CNN here, so I don't know how it's being covered there, but I hope it hasn't faded this quickly. BBC has been doing opinion pieces on whether or not the protests have failed, and whether or not the decreased news coverage will submerge this issue to irrelevance for another 20 years...
And yeah, Elphaba, I briefly considered putting this in Politics, but I didn't want just the usual suspects responding to this. The only way to get a wide variety of responses to a political topic is to post it in Discussion, unfortunately. Or at least, that's my perception.