But their obsessions with endlessly making merit in Buddhist temples and baptising white elephants suggests that Burma's ruling generals are wrestling with their own demons.
Under the Eastern cosmic law of cause and effect, they know their crimes are an anathema in Buddhism. They appear, because of the killings, the tortures, the press-ganging for slave labour and the pointless cruelty to Suu Kyi and the late Michael Aris, to fear for their own future reincarnations. With good reason, it would seem.
James Pringle, for Scotland’s Sunday Herald: http://www.sundayherald.com
Reprinted with permission
Please also visit the Lonely Planet:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/myanmar
and
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org
and for a listing of their documents on Myanmar (Burma);
http://web.amnesty.org/catalog.nsf/SearchResults?SearchDomain&Query=(Myanmar)&SearchOrder=1&SearchWV=TRUE&SearchThesaurus=FALSE&SearchFuzzy=FALSE&Start=1&Count=20&SearchEntry=ResultEntry
Under the Eastern cosmic law of cause and effect, they know their crimes are an anathema in Buddhism. They appear, because of the killings, the tortures, the press-ganging for slave labour and the pointless cruelty to Suu Kyi and the late Michael Aris, to fear for their own future reincarnations. With good reason, it would seem.
James Pringle, for Scotland’s Sunday Herald: http://www.sundayherald.com
Reprinted with permission
Please also visit the Lonely Planet:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/south_east_asia/myanmar
and
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org
and for a listing of their documents on Myanmar (Burma);
http://web.amnesty.org/catalog.nsf/SearchResults?SearchDomain&Query=(Myanmar)&SearchOrder=1&SearchWV=TRUE&SearchThesaurus=FALSE&SearchFuzzy=FALSE&Start=1&Count=20&SearchEntry=ResultEntry