Today is apparently International Bloggers’ Day for Burma, also known as Myanmar to the thugs who run it, so…
Free Burma!
While we’re at it, let’s also cheer for freedom in North Korea, which is just as bad or even worse. Both countries are more-or-less giant work camps.
Then there are all those middle eastern nations—some enemies, some “friends”—which might not be as bad as Burma and North Korea, but nevertheless deserve freedom, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Libya, and Syria.
And Iraq is still not free, not in the sense that its people are in control of their own lives.
Who else? Well, there are former Soviet states which aren’t doing very well, such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, and of course poor Russia itself, which is falling back into tyranny under Putin.
There’s our neighbor Cuba, still a communist dictatorship long after the fall of communism.
There’s Zimbabwe, whose insane dictator has transformed it from one of the wealthiest nations in Africa to hell on earth. The latest speculation is that Zimbabwe’s food supply is going to run out in less than a month.
And let’s not forget the 1.3 billion people living in China.
So, by all means, free Burma.
But according to the researchers at Freedom House, let’s also free Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Cote d’Ivorie, Cuba, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Laos, Libya, Maldives, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
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