"Close the borders, shut down the media, expel dissidents and restrict visitors"
-this is how an article by CNN begins,summing up the kind of actions that are being taken by the Burmese military junta.
Imagine this,over 20,000 monks,students,democratic party members & supporters,general public,women,children-unarmed,peacefully protesting for nothing more than for their basic right for freedom,for a democratic life,for a right to live an unoppressed life!!! Now imagine truck loads of army personnels opening fire,using tear gas,clubbing the protesters,conducting late night crack downs on the supporters.
Issuing warnings and threatening people of dire consequences,shutting down the internet,phone connections,manipulating the numbers of injured and killed,basically doing everything they possible can to suppress the voice of the people from spreading awareness about the situation in Myanmar.
Just by reading and seeing related pictures and videos on it, varied emotions pass through now imagine people who are living in such a country,experiencing such atrocities day in and day out!!I am sure most of us can just try to imagine but not really know how it exactly feels like,living in democratic countries like we do.
Just casually talking about it and sympathizing and tut tuting it is not going to help,its one so-called government vs the entire world and people who believe and respect Human Rights. So if we call ourselves that,its time to show it in whichever way we can,rembember billions/zillions/trillions of drops creates a water body and that's all the difference there is between wherever we are and Myanmar,so lets be that drop and get closer to the country,to improving Human Rights!
