Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly


OH, my mother land, your shape alike a pretty woman who is cradling. Not only such incredible shape you are, but also never failed to give us the best things possible in the world. You are perfectly located in the world map. You have very good cultivated lands in which we can grow most of plants spices. You give us more than enough foods for us as well as drinkable water by having enough rivers and streams. You provide us unrivaled three seasons so called summer, rainy & winter to enjoy the whole year. We have almost everything the world's citizen dreaming to possess in term of natural resources such as oil, gas, timber, gems, optimal weather, foods, fishery, plain cultivated lands, mountains, snow, rain, forest, river, streams, etc. We may not find a better land like you in this planet. You have performed more than a responsible mother. That's why let me label you "The Good" as you fully deserve it.

Oh, our brand new civilian government, you have been changing some outdated policies marginally since you succeed the power from your predecessor. We all loved to see some meaningful changes recently and appreciate that. Changing policies alone is not the duties of ruling party I think. You may have to listen people's voices which reflect their lives. Today, the loudest voice in the country is undoubtedly about the construction of Dam that is going to block the river source of our main river, Irrawaddy. Recently leak secrete report regarding to the research of this project unleash people's concern most. The China and our Junta took fully advantage from the lack of media freedom as well as people's lack of internet access by blinding our people from realistic things.

You, being people's government, are supposed to protect our valuable natural resources with the best interests of our people, not the interests of Chinese. You are buying almost everything to China with considerably scrap value. You better understand what kind of things are sustainable and which are not. Those sustainable things such as forests, gems are quite ok to sell. However, letting China do the project which is killing our life-blood river is not forgivable for our people. You, being a citizen of Burma, should have understood the consequences if the ordinary people even can feel that. What make you feel it right? Is it because you prefer Dollar than our beautiful nature? Is it because you cannot overturn the influence of China power? Anyway anyhow, you are the one who can make different before people's outrage wide spread. You may encounter worse condition if you continue to show green on this terrible project. Please save our essential river by stopping this horrible project. In the mean time, you will get people's heart by just doing this alone. Make it easy, men. At the moment, I would love to rate you "The Bad" to reflect your performance.

Dear China, you always said you are very good neighbor for our country. You always take care of us by using your veto power in the UN meeting to block UN security council's proposed action against us. You might have been our good friend in the past as you have claimed. However we are not happy to learn that you are enable to take all natural resources belong to us with the scrap value. You can do almost everything whatever you want to do within our territory. You took our oil, gas, forest, gems, even young women to fill the void by shortage of bride. Now you come invest for hydroelectricity. We know that you have got very costly lesson from your own version of hydroelectric projects such as 3 George dams. Those mega dam projects had killed your some major rivers in the like of Yangtze river, Yellow river, etc. You know how much does it suffer to your people by making those essential river drought.

In view of above, why are you trying to repeat the same problem in our country by investing heavily in hydroelectric power projects? Is it because it's non of your business with consequence? Is it because you pretend not to know what are side effects by doing so? We are poorer than you in term of money and technology but we can still able to understand what is right and what is wrong. We, people of Burma, are very disappointing with the action of our own government at the moment. We know only you can stop this miserable project with the ground of sympathy. We beg you for your mercy. If you are good neighbor country as you always said previously, please withdraw such cruel projects from our land. Please do consider the lives of residents though you got permission from our lousy leaders. We hope we can maintain this good relationship for long run by making meaningful efforts regardless of civil or junta government. At the moment, let me rate you as "The Ugly".

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