SocraticGadfly: Myanmar junta keeps priorities straight

May 27, 2008

Myanmar junta keeps priorities straight

Weeks to accept foreign aid after a cyclone smashes your country? Check. Immediate decision to keep Nobel Peace Prize winner under house arrest? Check.

Myanmar’s military junta has extended the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. Don’t forget John McCain’s former lobbyist connections to these folks.

Cyclone Nargis’ aftermath raised international hopes she would be released; instead, the military stepped up security around her place.

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