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Burma… or should i say China?

I wasn’t sure what to expect when coming to Burma. I didn’t really know much about the country other then what I have seen on CNN and the BBC. Last September the shit it the fan, a political protest turned into a bloody riot leaving countless people dead. It was started over the cost of fuel (which is still the main complaint from the local people I talked to). The US and other western countries placed a boycott on Myanmar (Burma). Burma was now cut off from the world, but this plan quickly backfired on the west. The red devil from the north (China) came to the rescue. China doesn’t necessarily seem to be just helping; they actually are taking over like they did in Tibet some 40 years ago. China is buying up countries all over the world and pumping money into them to help fuel China’s communist rule on the world. Thousands of Chinese immigrants are being relocated in Burma to start up business and run Burma. The word on the street is the Burmese people will slowly be weeded out like they are trying to do in Tibet. There have been reports that in Tibet women will go to the dentist for normal dental work and end up waking up with their tubes tide (so they cant have babies). More people need to speak out about what China is doing with Tibet and now Burma! The violation of human rights in this day and age is fucking outrageous! Here are a few photos from Burma. I didn’t spend much time there due to the fact that most tourist sights have been built and maintained by slave/forced labor. It was hard for me to walk around carelessly taking pictures while people were being forced to clean the path that I walked on. Here are a few different websites that you can go to and see what you might be able to do to help. But the most important thing is that you are aware of what’s going on and that you don’t forget that these things are still happening now as you read this.

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