Friday, September 28, 2007

A Couple of Blogs from Burma

www.yanaung.blogspot.com

www.drlunswe.blogspot.com

Wish I read Burmese, but the pictures speak for themselves




It would be nice to think that this retrograde regime's days are numbered but I doubt it.

BUDDHIST MONKS LEADING PROTEST IN RANGOON BURMA

Now this is not something you see everyday -- which is precisely what the awful regime of Burma is trying to stop, you seeing, there dealing with the Monks -- Monks dedicated to peace engaged in fomenting civil reform with often bloody results. As is, the BBC has just noted that Burma's Internet has been cut off. Burma and North Korea now share this amongst many other worse kleptocratic regime commonplaces. Is it becoming a more or less inclusive club these days?

Dem Bones, Dem Bones (History dies hard)



The Romanovs awaiting execution in Ekateringburg in the Urals

The BBC reports that the remnants of Alexei and Maria may have finally been found. In rather unrelated news, The Toronto Star seems all a flutter with news of remains found at the Don Jail.