BURMA COUP - 13
March 20: We don't want to ignore the significance of something that happened yesterday. A terrorist police truck came upon a group of 100 marchers. There was an altercation and the protestors killed two of the police, wounded a third, and took their guns.
The dictatorship freaked out. They sent in troops, and more innocent people were murdered.
But let's not miss what happened with this incident at a deeper level. Min Aung Hlaing and his generals love it when his stormtroopers kill the people. But it is a disaster for them when their own terrorist thugs are the ones who die. The police and soldiers are rampaging, because they believe they can do it with impunity (and because they are savages). But when some of them are killed, they lose their sense of invincibility.
Ultimately, this will end when someone take out the top generals or they so fear for their lives that they flee to China. Every time they lose personnel, then, from the protestors or the EAOs, this gets a little closer to reality.
March 21: So the news is the protestors killed some police in a remote area of Sagaing. And now nearby police are abandoning their stations.
This is both completely predictable and extremely important. The dictatorship controls Burma through a geographic network. Each location is a node on this network. In the cities they have the largest police stations and outside of the cities they have the largest army camps. As you move out to smaller cities and towns you get smaller stations and camps. And in rural areas there are tiny stations, just a few police, and army outposts - ten or twenty soldiers. These small stations and outposts are vulnerable. If the people or the EAOs take them, then the police and soldiers in nearby locations become extremely frightened. The people are coming for them next. This makes it very likely that they will run away or surrender.
A basic strategy therefore is to take the dictatorship down starting with the smallest nodes. Once these start to fall the progression should accelerate, as the police and soldiers flee from other nearby camps.
The dictatorship will respond by sending out large convoys, but the people can avoid these - or the EAOs can ambush them. For all revolutionary leaders inside, if you are willing to try it, this is the way to go.
March 21: BURMA TERRORISTS
I think it's great everyone calls the dictatorship "terrorists" now. They absolutely are - among the worst terrorists the world has ever seen.
The funny thing is, the junta used to call the ethnic pro-democracy resistance groups terrorists, too. The KNLA were terrorists, and the Arakan Army. But when they agreed to ceasefires, the name calling stopped.
There's an old phrase, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." For Burma, it is unequivocal. The Tatmadaw ARE terrorists and the Karen and the other EAOs, and the people in the streets, ARE freedom fighters.
The Tatmadaw have been terrorists, against the ethnic peoples, since 1962. That's 59 years! But no one in the international community, no other country, or the U.N., has ever called them that. I wonder why.
There's another saying, or maybe I just made it up. One man's terrorist is another man's business partner. Companies from the U.S., and Europe (Germany, France, U.K.), and Australia, and of course Thailand, Singapore and China, have been happy to do business with them, even though they ARE terrorists.
These countries, starting with the United States, will not take the simple and blindingly obvious step of declaring the Min Aung Hlaing regime a terrorist organization. That tells you who they are really for - their businesses.
When Burma is free, every single asset of every single foreign business that worked with the terrorists should be confiscated (every single mine, pipeline, ocean drilling platform, farm, factory, etc), and put in a sovereign wealth fund for the benefit of the people. Burma is, or it should be, a wealthy nation. No matter how much chaos and destruction there may be now, when the battle for freedom is won there will still be plenty left over, to rebuild.
March 20: We don't want to ignore the significance of something that happened yesterday. A terrorist police truck came upon a group of 100 marchers. There was an altercation and the protestors killed two of the police, wounded a third, and took their guns.
The dictatorship freaked out. They sent in troops, and more innocent people were murdered.
But let's not miss what happened with this incident at a deeper level. Min Aung Hlaing and his generals love it when his stormtroopers kill the people. But it is a disaster for them when their own terrorist thugs are the ones who die. The police and soldiers are rampaging, because they believe they can do it with impunity (and because they are savages). But when some of them are killed, they lose their sense of invincibility.
Ultimately, this will end when someone take out the top generals or they so fear for their lives that they flee to China. Every time they lose personnel, then, from the protestors or the EAOs, this gets a little closer to reality.