At first, the Burmese youth believed that the international community would come to their aid.
“Save us,”
the opponents of the February 1 military coup wrote in English on their T-shirts.
Two months and 550 dead later, the defenders of democracy in the land of the Thousand Pagodas realized that they were alone.
Westerners cry out in horror at the massacre of civilians by soldiers who target the crowd like pigeon shooting.
Timid sanctions are being taken in the United States and in Europe, without for the moment calling into question the interests of large groups like Total.
The time does not lend itself to humanitarian expeditions: no one will liberate the Burmese in their place from the yoke of dictatorship.
This awareness is transforming their tug-of-war.
While live ammunition repels peaceful parades, the political opposition is structuring itself to make up for the absence of its emblematic figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, arrested by
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