Laura Bush: "The time for a free Burma is now."

First Lady Laura Bush has written an editorial about the situation in Burma which was published in the Wall Street Journal today, 10/10/07.  Excerpt:

Millions have also been stunned by the junta's shameful response: nonviolent demonstrators struck down with batons, tear gas, smoke grenades and bullets; civilians, including children, seized at random; innocent men and women slain.

The generals' reign of fear has subdued the protests--for now. But while the streets of Burma may be eerily quiet, the hearts of the Burmese people are not: 2007 is not 1988, when the regime's last major anti-democracy crackdown killed 3,000 and left the junta intact. Today, people everywhere know about the regime's atrocities. They are disgusted by the junta's abuses of human rights. This swelling outrage presents the generals with an urgent choice: Be part of Burma's peaceful transition to democracy, or get out of the way for a government of the Burmese people's choosing.

Read the whole thing at Stop the Terror in Burma.

Comments

[Jeff]

George, a local note on this national/world story ..... a group of Midlanders will be heading to Thailand on a Christian mission in January/February, 2008 ..... among their stops will be a refugee camp on the border for those fleeing the atrocities in Burma/Myanmar.

[Geo]

Jeff, hopefully they will take along supplies that the refugees might need.