> Patrick Bond wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <uvj at vsnl.com>
>>> Why should there be any trade sanctions against Myanmar?
>>
>> It's called Burma, comrade.
>
> Huh? What are the politics of the name?
>
> Doug
Talk about a squalid regime. Slave labor SLORC (sounds like a creepy lizard!), the State Law and Order Restoration Council.
Except for helping to bring down apartheid SA have sanctions ever really worked to do anything but immiserate even further those most vulnerable, suffering under cruel dictatorships?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar
>...Myanmar, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw -- Michael Pugliese