SPECIAL - NATIONS IN CRISIS (r)

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"What went wrong....."

Is clear and simple, the wrong horses are backed and the gamblers lose,
time and time again, backing dictators, killing democrats, suppressing
trade unions and freedom of speech, not building and protecting
institutions of freedom and development, and then creating their own
conditions of redundancy, followed by the dictatorship class of armed
bandits and sycophants of power. They will stay in power until they are
forced out, thrown out, kicked out. Ergo sanctions!!!! And more
sanctions!!!



Rangoon Post Co-Editor wrote:
> 
> NATIONS IN CRISIS
> *************************
> By Julien Moe
> 15th September 1999
> 
> What went wrong in Burma was Ne Win's abuse of power and what he has
> driven
> into the heads of the new generation in the Burmese army. Ne Win's abuse
> of
> power and state funds has kept the state poorer and put  the Burmese
> people
> in the poor living standard. Today Burma is one of the poorest nations
> in
> the world. The World Bank has been unable to help Burma lest the aid
> should
> benefit only the military dictators. Ne Win could have saved his own
> face
> and that of the army to have instructed the army to honour the 1990
> elections results.
> 
> What went wrong in Indonesia was Suharto's abuse of power and state
> funds
> too. Scholars of Indonesia believe that Suharto had the opportunity to
> implement political reforms in the early 1980s . However, instead of
> strengthening key political institutions (such as the legal system) and
> opening up the political process, the Suharto regime procrastinated and
> kept
> the status quo  and his downfall was predetermined by the economic
> crisis.
> The East Timorese crisis kept on and Kofi Ananm General Secretary of the
> United Nations threatened B.J.Habiebie, the Indonesian President with
> prosecutions of the International Criminal Court if  Indonesia refused
> to
> accept th UN peacekeeping forces  to restore peace on East Timor. The
> American troops and the Australian troops are now on East Timor.