"true Asean values"

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It would appear that this is what the French governement and French
president are coddling up to as stated in the August 26 Presidential
address to his diplomatic corps of ambassadors, (remember they are two
distinct entities closer to the British model of parlimentary democracy
under a Presidential executive, not a monarch, not any more, at least
not constitutionally)ds

The french were included in the UN peace keeping force in E Timor.

Saw Myat Sandy wrote:
> 
> " Indonesian generals have tried for nearly 10 years to teach the
> Myanmar
> generals how to camouflage a military dictatorship by the better
> sounding
> word  'democracy'.  During many rounds of golf in Djakarta and Yangon
> they
> had coached the Myanmar generals the secrets of holding on to power
> while
> receiving billions of UN development. In a nutshell: how to 'play
> democracy'. To no avail, as we know. The Myanmar generals preferred a
> more
> direct, a more  'Burmese way' to keep the population powerless.
> 
> Now the Myanmar generals have a chance to become the teachers of their
>  Indonesian fellow generals. The lesson is called:   how to annihilate
> the
> result of a democratic election. And the neighbours, like Thailand:
> demand
> "Don't interfere, show  true ASEAN values". (Minister Surin)
> 
> It is time for the ridiculed UN to wake up and stop all development aid
> until general Wiranto and his cohorts make a pledge that the military in
> 
> the future stay where their place is: in the barracks.. The military
> could
> have stopped  the killing in East Timor. They could have protected the
> honour of their  government, but they deliberately decided against it,
> because the power is theirs and because they think they can turn history
> 
> back and keep East Timor by force.
> 
> The Myanmar generals committed the same error in 1990 ; they thought
> they
> could win the elections, but the same 75%  of the population thought
> otherwise, like in East Timor. Both have no chance as history will tell
> "