Burma

Abstract
This report is about Burma in the year 2007. After civil disturbance the leaders of the country went drastically against demonstrators without concerning human rights. The three most important points in this report is the rule of the government, the sanction and the application of the human rights. Furthermore, it informs about the rule of the military and their impact on the inhabitants.

The minister of Burma states that the regime is doing a very good job. However, the articles prove the opposite.

Burma’s Minister Hsan says in his Clarification on Myanmar’s situation, that the Government is doing as good a job as possible. However, recent articles show the Junta is strongly repressing its people and badly managing the economy has led to violence and poverty.
According to Kerry Brown the only investments in the Burmese infrastructure are being made by China, to ensure their energy supply. The Burmese government has not renewed anything for 100 years. However biggest fear still is inflation, which was the reason for a 500% increase in energy prices and therefore in considerably higher food costs. The regime was not able to manage the economy well and Burma is now one of the poorest countries, although they are one of the resource richest countries in the area. Another problem is that the money made of the economic resources flows into the military.

According to Brown's article, there are no signs that lifting sanctions will lead to democracy. The army has been playing the most important role of ruler ship since 1962. However Burma was closest to democracy 26 years ago before Ne Win came to power. Dreams of a democracy were quickly destroyed in 1990 by the military which ignored the triumph of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.
The military still remains very important, it even is the absolute power combining the legislative, judicative and executive power. Another tragic example of that happened yesterday when soldiers fired on demonstrators and so showed once again that Myanmar has to go a long way to reach democracy. (2007)

According to Amnesty International there are several doubts about the human rights. People died in prisons because of “severe beatings and others forms of torture”. Furthermore the government did not count how many people exactly died during the civil disturbance. During this time, the government ordered that medical staff should not help injured demonstrator (Myanmar: New evidence of mass detentions). That means, people suffer from physically and psychology tortures and treatments.
Most of the prisoners were in “dog sells” and had no appropriate amount of food and beverages as well as access to toilets or showers (Myanmar: New evidence of mass detentions).
An example for this disaster that is going on in this country is the monk called Thilavantha. He was an English teacher and one day after he attended a demonstration for “an end to restrictions imposed by the military government”, he was imprisoned. As a prisoner he was tortured and one day later he died. The government forced the hospital to publish his death as “a heart attack” (Monk’s Tale). However, it was obvious that he died because he was tortured and received some serious injury that leads to the death of the monk. There are a lot of other similar examples, which leads to a lot of pain and despair.

Reference List
Brown, K. (2007, September 28). Paranoid, insular and inept, the junta has no plan B. Retrieved December 3, 2007, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330834938-111494,00.html
Brown, K. The roots of the violence in Burma. Guardian. Retrieved September 28, 2007, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,330834938-111494,00.html.
Myanmar: New evidence of mass detentions, hostage taking, deaths in custody and disappearances. Retrieved on December 4, 2007, from http://web.amnesty.org/library/print/ENGASA160382007
The Monk's Tale: Death in detention. Retrieved on December 4, 2007, from http://web.amnesty.org/web/web.nsf/print/1F1F44E6A616A34C802573920038FE69.