Myanmar ‘pure evil’

After two years of living in Yangon of Myanmar, I had to agree with my brilliant French doctor who owns a home in both countries (Thailand and Myanmar), that the people of Myanmar are so much more pleasant, friendly and generally nicer than your average Thai person, and far less corrupt when dealing with their foreign guests.

This makes what is happening in Myanmar, courtesy of an illegal military junta taking control of the country using arms and reprehensible and indefensible criminal actions against an unarmed and peaceful democratic civilian resistance, utterly heart-breaking and purely evil in every way.

One of the problems faced by their nascent and promising democracy was encouraging local nationals who are educated abroad as doctors and the like, to return home to raise the quality of life in their own country, rather than staying overseas to work.

That has been dashed by the recent military occupation.

When will the world rightly condemn, reject and contest the wicked regimes of Russia and China — who repeatedly side with the criminals at the UN and in everyday practice — and stand against their attempts to control the people of their countries (and the wider world) instead of allowing freedom of expression, assembly, speech, movement and

— well, you name it.

The world is walking blindly (or mindlessly) into an authoritarian abyss from which there is no escape and no hope, unless we wake up and read the writing that has been on the wall for a painfully long time — left unread, or internalised and acted upon by an increasingly politically illiterate populace.

How can we allow these superpowers to support these evil acts unopposed in any tangible and life-saving way?