The Burmese generals who misrule their country are a
superstitious lot. Long-time dictator Ne Win reportedly
ordered everyone to start driving on the right (drivers were
using the left side in the former British colony) after his
astrologer told him to "think right."
Ne Win is long dead, but the autocrats who succeeded him
apparently also look to the stars for guidance. And the
signs are not good.
It cannot have pleased Myanmar's
ruling family: the collapse of a 2,300-year-old gold-domed
pagoda into a pile of timbers just three weeks after the wife
of the junta's top general helped rededicate it.
There is no country in Asia more superstitious than Myanmar,
and the crumbling of the temple was seen widely as something
more portentous than shoddy construction work.
The debacle coincides with the junta's trial of the country's pro-democracy
leader, Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi, after an American intruder swam across a lake and
spent a night at the villa where Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been
under house arrest for most of the past 19 years.
After two weeks of testimony that began May 18, the trial has
been suspended as the court considers procedural motions - and
as the junta apparently tries to decide how to manage what
seems to have been a major blunder, drawing condemnation from
around the world.
The superstitious generals may be consulting astrologers as
well as political tacticians for guidance. That would not be
unusual for many people in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
I'll save the thugs a trip to the astrologer. The stars say
they should stop killing and imprisoning people who only
want to be free. If the generals did so, the stars
further promise that Burma would benefit
from the same opportunities enjoyed by free societies
around the world.
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