Myanmar: How many more children have to die ?

[thaibeachlovers]

19 hours ago, Berkshire said:

While I agree with your sentiments, there's not much that an outsider can do.  It's basically a civil war....although rather one-sided.  Just look at Sudan.  Those people are blowing each other's brains out and foreign countries just want to get their people out.  Not quite like Ukraine where Russia invaded a sovereign country.  I do believe that the leadership of Myanmar are just pure evil.  Their government shouldn't even be recognized by other governments....but what are you going to do. 

The hill tribes would disagree that they are part of Burma, given they have been fighting against the Burmese government for a very long time, so IMO not a civil war.

[heybruce]

17 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Hmmmm.

The west ( America ) supported the Afghan rebels and Russia couldn't stop that.

Why is Burma any different?

They could if they really wanted to, but obviously they don't.

Do you want Myanmar to be like Afghanistan?

[GroveHillWanderer]

On 4/25/2023 at 8:16 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

They already know how to do that from when they supplied anti air missiles to villagers in Afghanistan.

 

BTW it's not the "entire country of Burma" but the areas of the separatist tribes just across the river from Thailand.

They didn't simply provide anti-aircraft weapons to "villagers" in Afghanistan, they provided them to organised militia groups known collectively as Mujahideen.

 

Also the situation in Afghanistan was completely different. The country was suffering under a foreign invasion with the vast majority of the country united in opposition to the invading foreign forces. Also, two of the main countries bordering Afghanistan (Iran and Pakistan) were firmly in support of the Mujahideen and perfectly amenable to having weaponry supplied across their borders into Afghanistan.

 

You don't have anything like the same situation in Myanmar.

 

And the massacre being referred to in the OP was not in the area bordering Thailand, it happened west of Mandalay, so pretty much in the centre of the country. As I mentioned, the junta's forces are killing people all over the country.