moment of the day

when a man dressed like Charlie Chaplin, on a red bike, crossed the street

protest for democracy

I come home everyday and my dad gives me an update on the protests and the killings in Burma. This topic usually comes up because it hits close to home - my parents and my entire family are from Burma (but ethnically Chinese) and it hurts to see and hear what is happening to the people of that country. We (all 27 of our family members, mostly from my mom's side) visited Burma in the winter of 2006, and the country was still very underdeveloped from the time my parents had left til now. And now, hearing about all the protests and killings by their government just makes me angry. Their government is killing innocent people, from students to monks, and I hope their government burns in hell for doing it. Images can be found here - the most horrific is one of a dead body of a monk floating in a river in Rangoon:

http://english.dvb.no/photo3.php?cat=6

Burma needs help and the UN has done nothing. They sent a representative to visit the country after everything has somewhat settled, after they killed hundreds of people they claimed not to have killed, after they burned all their bodies to rid of the evidence. If this were another country that the US could benefit from - China, Korea, Iraq (remember Saddam Hussein?), the US would have done something by now...