Satellites on Burma

关于缅甸局势的原因，分析是多方面的。绝大多数认为是来自于丹瑞嫁女的奢华影像资料的外泄，从而导致僧侣们走上街头，这个原因仔细想是经不起推敲的。和88年不一样，这次运动的主体是僧侣，在一个信奉原始教旨的佛教国家里，应该说接触互连网的机会是不多的。再者，九月恰巧缅甸学生都还聚居在乡下，因此串联的可能性甚小。再一个原因是国内原油价格的突然上涨，应该说，这是部分原因，但实际上此次的通涨压力并不如上次的那么大。而且僧侣的耐受力是远远高于激进的学生的。今天浏览MSNBC无意间看到的新闻让人找个了大概的答案。大意是通过卫星影响追踪，对照前后两张照片，在一个偏僻地区发生的一起整个村庄的屠杀。应该说，或许这才是僧侣走上街头的原因。诚然，他们不可能阅读到MSNBC的新闻，但是他们可以通过传道的路径把这些消息在寺庙内传播开来。这也正解释了为什么此次的街头战是一向被认为保守的宗教势力发动的。应该说，是国内的人道主义灾难触动了此次的动乱，而且，也应该是较大规模的，这个村庄也仅仅是个例子。但如今缅甸当局又在玩此花招，已经切断所有国内的互连网接入，消息也越来越少，哎。他们真的恐慌了。

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Eyes on Myanmar

Satellites provide evidence to corroborate human-rights abuses by Myanmar’s military regime. This shows the "before" view (top) and the "after" view (bottom) of a village that was destroyed.

During a teleconference with journalists, he said he hoped the evidence would send a message to China in particular, leading to a harder line against Myanmar's military junta. He also hoped the images would affect events in Burma itself.
"We are trying to send a message to the military junta that we are watching from the sky," Aung Din told the journalists.
The imagery focused on areas cited by human-rights monitors with the Free Burma Rangers, the Karen Human Rights Group and the Thailand Burma Border Consortium, primarily in eastern Myanmar's Karen State, said Lars Bromley, director of the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights project.
Human-rights groups say that more than 3,000 villages have been destroyed in an effort to crush opposition to the junta. Civil unrest in Myanmar has created 1.5 million refugees and 500,000 internally displaced people, and 1,300 political prisoners are in jail, according to human-rights reports.
In the Karen border region, the junta is said to force ethnic minorities to abandon their homes, and use scattered mortar fire to intimidate those who try to grow crops.



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