Burmese Doesn't Mean You're From Birmingham
The situation in Burma's pretty fucked at the moment - you've got monks wearing sandals and robes getting the shit beaten out of them by soldiers with riot shields and rifles. Add to that, bystanders getting shot and killed (including a journalist now, so it's personal, yo). The support from the public in Burma has been pretty outstanding though - this picture's really inspiring. It really does show that non-violent protest is the best way to do things - if they'd been planting bombs under government officials' cars, they'd have been written off as terrorists and the situation wouldn't have as much attention from the rest of the world. Let's face it - you can't exactly not take notice when monks are getting attacked by soldiers.
