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- From: Tif <tiferet32@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:55:38 -0000
Junta fails to stop the ridicule
Crowds at rallies chant anti-regime slogans
Burma's military regime has cleared the streets of demonstrators but
it has failed miserably to suppress other displays of opposition,
writes Edward Loxton for The First Post.
Reports from people forced to attend pro-government rallies indicate
that the carefully-staged functions threaten to backfire. Whole
sections of the crowds herded into city stadiums and country market
places to listen to turgid government propaganda are chanting anti-
regime slogans and ridiculing local officials trying to establish
order.
The recalcitrant crowds appear to have taken courage from the
experience of football fans in Burma, who chant anti-regime insults
from stadium stands, confident that the authorities would have
difficulty rounding up 30,000 soccer spectators. Army teams who take
the field come in for particularly colourful abuse.
In another move to humiliate the regime, exile groups are organising a
"panties for peace" campaign, bombarding Burma's foreign embassies
with packages containing women's underwear. A Burmese superstition,
harboured by junta leader Than Shwe and other generals, holds that any
contact with womenswear robs the male recipient of his powers.
In another protest action, residents of Rangoon are hanging pictures
of Than Shwe around the necks of stray dogs and letting them loose on
the streets. Associating anybody with the image of a dog is a mortal
insult in Burma.
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