Burma, the country laid to waste by Typhoon Nargis is still in battle with itself as the government continues to defy call for more freedom and freedom form the oppressive military rule of it’s generals who have ruled the land. Much of the problems the impoverished country is facing became apparent with the typhoon for most basic services are non-existent and millions were speculated to have died. But with media and other international services heavily screened or non-existent the plight of it’s people remain unknown to much of the world. One voice stands amongst all the others who stand for calls of freedom, Aung San Suu Kyi, the aged woman who has spent the most of her adult life under home arrest.
She again faces trial and judgment for a crime she has denied any knowledge of, subversion of the state due to a man who secretly swam the river towards her home caught and identified to be a Westerner. Most of the world knows little of the struggling state, ruled by a military junta with generals who live of the land, leavign the rest of the populace in extreme poverty. Calls for a more open society have gone unheard, even the spiritual leaders of the country, monks who took part in the recent protests suffered greatly as the move ws crushed by force, using the military to break the will of those very people calling for freedom. Freedom is something the people are in need, due to isolation form the rest of the world. Knowledge is suppressed and people restricted to farm work with schools and other educational institutions almost non-existent. The infrastructure of the country is almost non-existent as well as access to the internet that in today’s day and age has linked so many with the outside world all calling for freedom form their closed society, ruled by oppressive regimes.