used to be warm and lovely
now filled with darkness and horror.
My family...whom I had grown with
used to be cheerful and lively
now living with fear and terror.
My friends...whom I shared my life with
used to be pure and merry
now living with wounded heart.
A free bird...which is just freed
used to be caged
now flying with an olive branch
for the place it loves.
A free bird towards a Free Burma.
In the Quiet Land, no one can tell
if there's someone who's listening
for secrets they can sell.
The informers are paid in the blood of the land
and no one dares speak what the tyrants won't stand.
In the quiet land of Burma,
no one laughs and no one thinks out loud.
In the quiet land of Burma,
you can hear it in the silence of the crowd
In the Quiet Land, no one can say
when the soldiers are coming
to carry them away.
The Chinese want a road; the French want the oil;
the Thais take the timber; and SLORC takes the spoils...
In the Quiet Land....
In the Quiet Land, no one can hear
what is silenced by murder
and covered up with fear.
But, despite what is forced, freedom's a sound
that liars can't fake and no shouting can drown.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and has continued to be a target and under house arrest. This lastest time period she's been under house arrest for over two years. The UN and our government has demanded her release, but not much has been done. She's spent ten of the past 16 years under confinement.
Burma has been ruled by a military junta since 1962. Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a 1990 general election, but the military refused to accept the results of the vote.
She could have given up and been able to return to England to be with her husband when he was dying but she realized if she left they would never allow her to return. So she stayed because she still believes a democracy in Burma is possible. I think even our founding fathers would agree "the Lady" is a Patriot......
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Good luck to her. I hope that her sacrifies will not be in vain. This is just another issue that shows that the UN has no real power. Maybe it would be better to disband the UN and get all the diplomats out of NYC. Then the city wouldn't have to worry about unpaid parking tickets, gridlock, and the building could be used for more expensive housing for the rich who will buy more crap in the city. Doesn't bother me one way or the other, sine I live in NJ. But it is a thought. At least I won't have to go over the GWB to see the Jets play in four years. What were talkin about? ;)
Given how long this has been happening since the 80's shows how long this has been an issue. It also demonstrates sanctions don't work (as if we needed to be reminded of that).
I don't know what the solution is but it's obvious what we have been doing as far as a world wide community isn't working. Military force can't always be the answer but there has got to be another way if the UN is really serious about this, which is probably the real reason why it's still going on. Our presidents and politicians are really good at making speeches demanding change yet don't follow thru, same with the UN....
At least with football there is usually a clear winner....
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