To Hell with your dictatorship, SLO

[strider@xxxxxxxxxxx]

/* Written  3:53 pm  Apr 30, 1994 by s0lg@xxxxxxxxx in igc:soc.culture.th */
/* ---------- "To Hell with your dictatorship, SLO" ---------- */
piras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Piras Chantravekin) writes:
>  
> In article <1475000110@cdp>, strider@xxxxxxxxxxx (strider@xxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
> >From: <strider>
> >Subject: Burmese magazine insults Thai Crown Princess
> >
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> >Burmese Magazine Insults Thai Crown Princess
> >
> >by Reg B. Strider
> >
> >
> >Rangoon--
> >
> >In an incident that may prove embarrassing to Burma, a government-run
> >magazine has insulted the Crown Princess of Thailand.  An article appearing
> >in the February edition of the Myatkhin'thit (The New Sword), insinuates that
> >Crown Princess Sirindhorn would have been a prostitute if she were not the
> >King's daughter.  The penalties for lese majeste are heavy in Thailand but it
> >is considered especially provocative to malign Princess Sirindhorn, who is
> >the most popular member of the royal family.
> >
> >The article purports to be a conversation between a Thai and a Vietnamese, in
> >which the Vietnamese is quoted as telling the Thai:
> >
> >     Though your girl is not Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, you believe that
> >     she is more intelligent and more patriotic.  Sirindhorn is a well-
> >     known person as she was born from the Thai King; however, if she
> >     were born from an ordinary farmer or fisherman, she would have
> >     become a prostitute.
> >                         (Myatkhin'thit, Feb. 94, p. 135)
>  
> >The price Bangkok exacted for refusing to isolate Burma included lucrative
> >logging and fishing concessions.  The Burmese government has since accused
> >Thai fishermen and loggers of overfishing and extracting far more timber than
> >was allowed by the contracts.
> >
> >In retaliation for what the Burmese see as rapacious conduct by Thai
> >businessmen, a number of Thais illegally fishing in Burmese waters have been
> >killed and Rangoon is increasingly turning for trade to Singapore and other
> >countries instead of Thailand.  The article insulting Princess Sirindhorn may
> >be a further expression of Rangoon's resentment.
> >
> >Given the heavy government censorship in Burma, it seems unlikely that the
> >article could have been printed without authorization from senior Burmese
> >officials.  Myatkhin'thit magazine began publishing in 1990, and is similar
> >in style to a scandal sheet.  It regularly insults foreign and domestic
> >opponents of the regime and among its targets have been pro-democracy leader
> >Aung San Suu Kyi and western diplomats.
> >
> >In a 1993 report by the PEN American Center detailing censorship in Burma,
> >the report's author noted that Myatkhin'thit:
> >
> >     ...does not have to contend with the multiple obstacles of checks
> >     on authors, the filling in of forms with biographical details of
> >     all contributors [and] predistribution scrutiny...
> >
> >According to the report, Myatkhin'thit runs stories:
> >
> >     that criticize and attack the student movement...it also frequently
> >     features articles that describe in minute detail rape, corruption,
> >     and murder in foreign countries, with the aim of discrediting these
> >     very countries that are calling on the SLORC to respect the rights
> >     of Burmese citizens.
> >
> >               Anna J. Allott, 
> >               "Inked Over, Ripped Out: Burmese Storytellers and the Censors"
> >               A PEN American Center Freedom-to-Write Report.  
> >               PEN American Center: New York, NY.  1993 (p. 19)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Don't know which son of a bitch in the Burmese goverment authorized
> this newspaper to publish this insulting article. Is it the Sua Mong
> himself?? Too bad, a poor bitch didn't know how to teach her son to
> be a good dictator. 
> 
> I think there is no need for any official appologize from this devil
> regime. The diplomatic relation between the two countries should be
> reduce to the minimum lavel, if not cut off. The Thai government
> should reduce the number of the Burmese diplomatic staffs in
> response to this insult on the Crown Princess. Any trade and
> official discussions should be postponed indefinitely. 
> 
> The Thai Businessmen  should also open up their eyes, stop dealing
> with the devil and being  devils themselves by expoloithing the
> natural resource of this poor country thereby supporting this
> authoritarian regime to continue oppressing its own people.
> 
> Long Live Freedom! 
> Long Live The Crown Princess! 
> ------------------
> Piras Chantravekin
> ------------------
> 
>
But she's not exactly beautiful, is she Piras?   Also, is there any 
connection between the continued existence of the crown princess and
freedom in Thailand?  I can't think of one,

Laurence