Re: [A-List] Myanmar

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a:"Re: [A-List] Myanmar"
Enviado por:Henry C.K. Liu
Con fecha:27 Jan 2006, a las 2:53

> Myanmar has a history of using outside help to overthrow domestic
> dictatorships. Leaders of the Myanmese independence movement, led by
> General Aung San in the 1930s, used Japanese help to drive out the
> British colonialists. When the tide turned in favor of the Allies in
> World War II, they invited the British back to oust the Japanese army.
> 

This behavior strongly reminds me of the attitude of many Argentinean 
military during the 30s who, not being Fascist themselves, observed 
not without some merry eagerness the German opposition to British 
global rule, and afterwards took the side of the Allies when the 
Second World War was coming to an end.

And, outrageously enough for more than one on this list, this also 
reminds me of the attitude of that Swedish _Labor_ Prime Minister who 
(a) allowed Germany to traverse Swedish land against Norway -in the 
move he put all the Communists and Left Socialists of the North in 
prison so they would not oppose the Germans along the Kiruna railroad-
, (b) declared the neutrality of Sweden, and (c) thus allowed his 
country to emerge from the Second World War as one of the most 
important -and unblemished- industrial powers.

Modern Sweden (as well as modern Argentina up to the moment when the 
1976 coup, which was supported by most of today's "democrats" here 
_Communist Party included_) was a child of this "betrayal to 
democracy".

It is not a matter of "outside help".  It is a matter of how can you 
do an independent policy in a weak country that is located at a 
geopolitical plate boundary.  Marshal Tito did more or less the same 
thing in Yugoslavia:  he played the British against the Soviet, and 
then the Soviet against the British (this, Churchill never forgave 
him).

As a final note, I would like to point out, also, that the policies 
regarding "independence" of tribal groups are so strikingly similar 
to those policies which in South Africa had led to the Bantustans 
that it is quite a mystery for me _how is it that Patrick Bond, whose 
standing against apartheid I can testify if it were necessary at all_ 
can't realize that the agreements between the central government and 
the ethnic minorities shows the character of those "independentist" 
movements.

I mean: while the Pretoria white-only regime fomented "independent" 
Bantustans, in a policy already followed by Britain -some examples:  
Lesotho, Swaziland, Nyassaland, even (outside Africa) Bhutan, etc.- 
the Myanmar authorities arrive at agreements with the military 
representatives of the involved populations.

These considerations set my first blueprint of the global situation 
in Myanmar.  Struggles for democracy cannot be waged _against_ this 
basic issue.  If you do so, then you end up playing on Washington's 
hands.

That is the way I see this issue.

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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