So… The g0vernment has said they’re going to hold elections in 2010. Maybe they’re not so bad after all! Maybe they’re just misunderstood?
In which case, why is Th*n Sh-we’s best mate allowed to evict an entire village as well as remove a church, because it’s in the way of where he wants to put a jade mine? Oh yeah, it’s because they couldn’t give a rats arse about human rights… Far more important to line their own pockets. That’s why they’ve just created a new ‘rule’, that nobody with a foreign husband or wife can run in the elections - surely it’s just a COINCIDENCE that this happens to exclude ASSK?
I was about to say that only a total blind fool would actually believe that this country is moving forward, and then I read an article about Gamb*ri saying the ‘elections’ are ’significant’ - which just goes to endorse my argument about Gamb*ri being a total blind fool.
Article below, names altered or removed to attempt to avoid detection by annoying censors.
Tey Zar takes over village for its jade
19 Feb 08
Burmese tycoon Teyy Zar, a business crony of junta chief Snr-Gen Th*n Shw*, has confiscated an entire village in upper Burma to make land available for jade mining, according to a local resident.
More than 300 people have been relocated without compensation from the confiscated village [the source revealed].
Teyy Zar claimed the village belonged to him [it was said]. He had also ordered a church to be removed from the village by the end of February because it stood in the way of his planned jade mine.
Teyy Zar’s company, the Ht*o Trading Co Ltd was not available for comment on the report.
Ht*o Trading Co Ltd is a leading teak exporter and is also involved in tourism, real estate and housing development. Teyy Zar also owns Burma’s only private airline, Air B*gan.
Business sources in Rangoon report that the young tycoon travelled recently to Pusan, South Korea’s largest port, to purchase a freight ship and a tanker.
He is believed to have procured a loan of US $10 million from the military government to buy the two vessels, reportedly as part of a plan to create Burma’s first privately operated international shipping line.
Because of his close business and social ties to Th*n Shw* and other military leaders, Teyy Zar is a prominent target of US sanctions. In October 2007, the US put Air B*gan, on its blacklist.
