From: “Saffron Revolutin” unfolding in Burma! – The Metta Center
“On Saturday, the Burmese military junta allowed 500 monks to visit Suu Kyi at her home-prison, yielding to the recent massive nonviolent demonstrations by monks, students, and civic leaders. It appears that the monks have set up a win-win situation, where the government is hesitating to act and crush the demonstrations (as they did in 1988) because it would likely cause the nonviolent uprising to spread all across the country in protest. Marches have now attracted 100,000 participants.”
Could change be coming? If it does, it will be another example of how effective regime change is done nonviolently.
Filed under: current events, history, nonviolence, politics
