SG keeping Burma's military rulers and their cronies afloat
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Web of cash, power and cronies
Eric Ellis
SINGAPORE isn't just skilled at mandatory executions of drug traffickers, running an excellent airport and selling cameras on Orchard Road. It also does a useful trade keeping Burma's military rulers and their cronies afloat.
Much attention is placed on China and its coming hosting of the Olympic Games as a diplomatic pressure point on the rampant Burmese junta. But there is a group of government businessmen-technocrats in Singapore who will also be closely monitoring the brutality in Rangoon. And, were they so inclined, their influence could go a long way to limiting the misery being inflicted on Burma's 54 million people.
Collectively known as "Singapore Inc", they gather around the $A150 billion state-owned investment house Temasek Holdings, controlled by a member of the ruling Lee family.
With an estimated $A3 billion staked in the country (and a more than $20 billion stake in Australia), Singapore Inc companies have been some of the biggest investors in and supporters of Burma's military junta � this while its Government, on the rare times it is asked, suggests a softly-softly diplomatic approach towards the junta.
When it comes to Burma, Singapore pockets the high morals it likes to wave at the West elsewhere. Singapore's one-time head of foreign trade once said as his country was building links with Burma in the mid-1990s: "While the other countries are ignoring it, it's a good time for us to go in � you get better deals, and you're more appreciated � Singapore's position is not to judge them and take a judgemental moral high ground."
But by providing Burma's pariah junta with the crucial equipment mostly denied by Western sanctions, Singapore has helped keep the junta and its cronies afloat for 20 years, since the last time the generals killed the citizens they are supposed to protect.
Withdraw that financial support and Burma's junta would be substantially weakened, perhaps even fail. But after two decades of profitable business with the trigger-happy generals and their cronies, that's about the last thing Singapore is likely to do. There's too much money to be made.
Hotels, airlines, military materiel and training, crowd control equipment and sophisticated telecoms-monitoring devices for its secret police � Singapore is manager and supplier to the junta, and the "cronified" economy it controls.
It's impossible to spend any time in Burma and not make the junta richer, thanks to Singapore suppliers' contracts with the tourism industry. Singapore's hospitals also keep Burma's leaders alive � 74-year-old junta leader Than Shwe has been getting his intestinal cancer treated in a Singapore government hospital, protected by Singapore security. Singapore's boutiques keep junta wives and families cloaked in Armani, and its banks help launder their money and that of Burma's crony drug lords.
Much of Singapore's activity in Burma has been documented by an analyst working in Prime Minister John Howard's direct chain of command, in the Office of National Assessments. Andrew Selth is recognised as an authority on the Burmese military. Now a research fellow at Queensland's Griffith University, Mr Selth has written extensively on how close Singapore is to the junta.
Often writing as "William Ashton" in the authoritative Jane's Intelligence Review, Mr Selth has described in various articles how Singapore has sent the junta guns, rockets, armoured personnel carriers and grenade launchers, some of it trans-shipped from stocks seized by Israel from Palestinians in southern Lebanon.
Singaporean companies have provided computers and networking equipment for Burma's defence ministry and army, while upgrading the bunkered junta's ability to network with regional commanders � so crucial as protesting monks take to the streets of 20 Burmese cities, causing major logistical headaches for the Tatmadaw, the Burmese military.
"Singapore cares little about human rights, in particular the plight of the ethnic and religious minorities in Burma," Mr Selth writes.
"Having developed one of the region's most advanced armed forces and defence industrial support bases, Singapore is in a good position to offer Burma a number of inducements which other ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) countries would find hard to match."
Singapore's Foreign Minister, George Yeo, is the current chairman of ASEAN.
Mr Selth says Singapore also provided the equipment for a "cyber war centre" to monitor dissident activity while training Burma's secret police, whose sole job seems to be ensuring pro-democracy groups are crushed.
Monitoring dissidents is an area where Singapore has particular expertise. After almost five decades in power, the Lee family-controlled People's Action Party ranks behind only the communists of China, Cuba and North Korea in leadership longevity, skilled in neutralising opposition.
"This centre is reported to be closely involved in the monitoring and recording of foreign and domestic telecommunications, including the satellite telephone conversations of Burmese opposition groups," Mr Selth writes.
Singapore Government companies, such as leading arms supplier Singapore Technologies, dominate the communications and military sector in Singapore. "It is highly unlikely," Mr Selth writes, "that any of these arms shipments to Burma could have been made without the knowledge and support of the Singapore Government."
He notes that Singapore's ambassadors to Burma have included a former senior Singapore armed forces officer, and a past director of Singapore's defence-oriented Joint Intelligence Directorate, people with a military background rather than professional diplomats.
He writes that after the 1988 crackdown, when the junta killed 3000 protesters, "the fir
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Hope BBC, CNN and all other international media receive this news and broadcast to the whole world. Expose the ruling party of Singapore. PAP is excellent in oppressing people of the countries directly or indirectly. What a shame. KARMA, PAP, karma.
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On one hand our Australia friend is telling us of high morals - when on the other hand they openly admitting to spying on us. So what every high morals is all up to them to say .... !!!Originally posted by qlqq9:Much of Singapore's activity in Burma has been documented by an analyst working in Prime Minister John Howard's direct chain of command, in the Office of National Assessments.
Note that they way they write about Singapore Business Investment in Burma.... hello there is Australia Business investment in Burma also !!! Hello here is some idiot using $ investment as a gadge for morals .... seem more like a case of jealously !!!
Australia like most western countries - think just like a child. Yep stop all business to Burma ... !!! Will that resolve the problem ? You only make the poor people there suffer more. What wrong with Singapore doing business there, in hotels and others .... it is helping the burma people to intergrate to modern world, bring them new technology and education.
You stop trade and business -the burma people will forever be in the dark ages , and under the control of the government. With business and trade, burma people have education, equipments and knowledge..... like what you see on tv ... people are using english, video cams, camera phones and internet to bring the world attention to what happening in Burma now. That would not have been possible is everyone believe like Australia - let the burma stay in the dark ages with sanctions which only hurt the people and keep the leader in power more.
Australia just never learn. when china closed its doors - did the people life and power increase ? not the real change happen only when china open back its doors and engage in trade and business - see nowaday when trade progress and people life and knowledge improve - it force even China government to totally restructure their policy.... isn't this better..
Why must Australia like most western countries keep imposing their methods which does not work and does more harm .... frankly after all these years ... sad to say they already make a mess out of the world..... think it is time for them to sit back and reflect on themselves. -
One of senior general Than Shwe's cronies: U Tay Za
Like Than Shwe, his travels are restricted to some parts of Asia and Russia only.
Singapore's govt also allow him access to our country.
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The point is if the west do not impose sanctions, the benefits won't go to the people anyway. Of course sanctions do not include starving the people. Food can still be allowed to be imported.Originally posted by storywolf:On one hand our Australia friend is telling us of high morals - when on the other hand they openly admitting to spying on us. So what every high morals is all up to them to say .... !!!
Note that they way they write about Singapore Business Investment in Burma.... hello there is Australia Business investment in Burma also !!! Hello here is some idiot using $ investment as a gadge for morals .... seem more like a case of jealously !!!
Australia like most western countries - think just like a child. Yep stop all business to Burma ... !!! Will that resolve the problem ? You only make the poor people there suffer more. What wrong with Singapore doing business there, in hotels and others .... it is helping the burma people to intergrate to modern world, bring them new technology and education.
You stop trade and business -the burma people will forever be in the dark ages , and under the control of the government. With business and trade, burma people have education, equipments and knowledge..... like what you see on tv ... people are using english, video cams, camera phones and internet to bring the world attention to what happening in Burma now. That would not have been possible is everyone believe like Australia - let the burma stay in the dark ages with sanctions which only hurt the people and keep the leader in power more.
Australia just never learn. when china closed its doors - did the people life and power increase ? not the real change happen only when china open back its doors and engage in trade and business - see nowaday when trade progress and people life and knowledge improve - it force even China government to totally restructure their policy.... isn't this better..
Why must Australia like most western countries keep imposing their methods which does not work and does more harm .... frankly after all these years ... sad to say they already make a mess out of the world..... think it is time for them to sit back and reflect on themselves.
So, sanctions can work against such regimes but then there are greedy govt of some countries who do not support sanctions and will enter and sustain the regime because of purely economic gains. -
Sanctions can work, but they have to be very specific and targeted at individuals of the ruling junta and their associated business partners, be it state or private corporations.Originally posted by storywolf:On one hand our Australia friend is telling us of high morals - when on the other hand they openly admitting to spying on us. So what every high morals is all up to them to say .... !!!
Note that they way they write about Singapore Business Investment in Burma.... hello there is Australia Business investment in Burma also !!! Hello here is some idiot using $ investment as a gadge for morals .... seem more like a case of jealously !!!
Australia like most western countries - think just like a child. Yep stop all business to Burma ... !!! Will that resolve the problem ? You only make the poor people there suffer more. What wrong with Singapore doing business there, in hotels and others .... it is helping the burma people to intergrate to modern world, bring them new technology and education.
You stop trade and business -the burma people will forever be in the dark ages , and under the control of the government. With business and trade, burma people have education, equipments and knowledge..... like what you see on tv ... people are using english, video cams, camera phones and internet to bring the world attention to what happening in Burma now. That would not have been possible is everyone believe like Australia - let the burma stay in the dark ages with sanctions which only hurt the people and keep the leader in power more.
Australia just never learn. when china closed its doors - did the people life and power increase ? not the real change happen only when china open back its doors and engage in trade and business - see nowaday when trade progress and people life and knowledge improve - it force even China government to totally restructure their policy.... isn't this better..
Why must Australia like most western countries keep imposing their methods which does not work and does more harm .... frankly after all these years ... sad to say they already make a mess out of the world..... think it is time for them to sit back and reflect on themselves. -
Singapore's blood money
Hanging drug couriers but investing with their suppliers
The money trail: the Myanmar Fund
THE Singapore government, in cooperation with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, is directly connected to key business ventures of drug kingpin Lo through an investment group called the Myanmar Fund. The fund, which provides investors "with long term capital appreciation from direct or indirect investments in Myanmar (Burma)," is registered as a tax-free fund in Jersey, Channel Islands, according to documents provided to the Irish Stock Exchange.
Singapore's largest government-controlled financial institution - the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) - is listed in the documents along with Morgan Guaranty Trust Bank (a J.P. Morgan subsidiary separate from the Trust Company) as a core shareholder in the Myanmar Fund. A September 1996 GIC business profile from the Registry of Companies and Businesses in Singapore shows that high-level
Singaporean politicians are officers and directors of the GIC, including senior minister Lee Kuan Yew; his son, deputy prime minister Brig Gen Lee Hsien Loong; and finance minister Dr Richard Hu. As a core shareholder, the GIC helps determine how the fund's money is invested in Burma. Jean Tan, a spokesperson for the Singaporean embassy in Washington, confirmed in a June interview that the GIC holds a 21.5 percent share of the Myanmar Fund. As of last November, this investment was worth $10 million, according to the Singaporean government.
The Myanmar Fund owns 25 percent of an Asia World subsidiary, Asia World Industries. In fact, the Myanmar Fund's 1997 first-quarter report features two pictures of Asia World factories on its cover. The Myanmar Fund has also heavily invested in a number of luxury hotels in Burma, including Rangoon's Traders and Shangri-La. The Asia World business profile describes the Traders and Shangri-La hotels as major investment projects for Lo Hsing Han's company. It says that the Shangri-La Hotel (and surrounding apartments and offices) will be "the biggest of all" Asia World's investments, with "$200 million...in appropriation of the project."
In an official press release last November, the Singapore government stated that its investments in the Myanmar Fund were "completely open and above board" and that its investments in both the two luxury hotels and Asia World were "straightforward investments in bona fide commercial projects." However, the fund's operations are hardly straightforward and open. The operations of the GIC itself are effectively a state secret. The government company is not required to file annual reports or report to parliament. It has no public accountability, even though it uses public moneys for its investments. Furthermore, according to fund documents, in late 1994 - only weeks after being listed on the Irish Stock Exchange - the GIC's shares disappeared from the stock exchange register and were re-registered under the name of Ince & Co. The Singaporean government acknowledged in November that Morgan Guaranty Trust Company is the custodian for the GIC securities, and that Ince & Co. was set up by Morgan to hold the shares in its custody.
Morgan Guaranty Trust Bank, investing yet other funds on behalf of clients, is the largest core shareholder (followed by the GIC) of the Myanmar Fund at 42 percent, according to a fund report. This means that together, the Singaporean regime's GIC and Morgan Guaranty Trust Bank have been in control of 63 percent of the Myanmar Fund and its co-investments with the corporation chaired by drug baron Lo Hsing Han. (The GIC shares re-listed as Ince & Co have shifted hands once again. In a February document obtained by The Nation, the fund reported transfer of the Ince & Co. shares to another company, Hare & Co. In telephone interviews, spokesmen for the Myanmar Fund, the GIC and Morgan Guaranty refused to provide information about the identity or purpose of the new custodial company.)
Dining with the devil
SINGAPORE'S dealings with Lo Hsing Han and Steven Law continue to expand unabated. Singapore's GIC investment in the Myanmar Fund increased by 4.3 percent in 1996. In Rangoon, the Traders Hotel celebrated its official opening last November. At the opening ceremony, attended by Singapore's Ambassador and graced with an ap-pearance by Lo himself, the presiding SLORC minister publicly thanked both Steven Law and the government of Singapore for paving the road for a smooth business partnership. "I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the government of Singapore," he said, "without whose support and encouragement there would be very few Singaporean businessmen in our country."
Since then, ground has been broken on the construction of Sinmardev, a new, $207 million industrial park and port on the outskirts of Rangoon. A Singaporean consortium is the leader in a joint venture with the SLORC, the Myanmar Fund, Lo's family company and a slew of international shareholders. The Myanmar Fund holds a 10 percent interest in Sinmardev. Singaporean entrepreneur Albert Hong, head of Sinmardev, described the project as the largest foreign investment in Burma outside the energy field.
"Singapore is more involved with Lo than any other country, because that's basically where Steven Law is functioning out of when he's not in Burma," observes a US narcotics official.
Singapore's rulers continue to deny any wrongdoing in connection with their relationship to Asia World. "It is fairly far-fetched, trying to link the Singaporean government and drug traffickers," said embassy spokesperson Jean Tan.
"Nonsense," says Singapore's former solicitor general Francis Seow, now a research fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School. The former close associate of Lee Kuan Yew says he knows "through personal experience" that Lee micro-manages every aspect of Singaporean political, economic and social policy.
Dr Chee Soon Juan, secretary general of the Singapore Democratic Party and a leader of Singapore's political opposition, was labeled a traitor for raising the drug issue in Singapore. "Drug peddlers are routinely hanged in Singapore for carrying heroin," wrote Chee, in a rare and courageous act of public protest in response to a documentary that aired on Australian television last year, Singapore Sling. "And where are all these drugs coming from? Drug lords like Lo Hsing Han are the big-time pushers aided by the SLORC generals." "Is this not hypocrisy at its worst?" he asked.
"The Singapore government knows it's having dinner with the devil, and sharing a very short spoon," says Seow. "And it is a terrible double standard. Drug moneys are being laundered apparently by the same drug lords who supply the heroin for which small-time drug dealers are hanged. We are reaping profits as Burma's biggest investor, but we're being paid with blood money."
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try asking the white di.ck do explain why Chevron still has investment in Myanmar's natural gas field and why australia companies are still supplying milk powder to feed the Myanmar soldiers.Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Why is that so? -
Gazelle, you are truely someone who shares the same views as me when it comes to foreign policies!
We are at odds when it comes to domestics politics, but are of the same mind on other matters.
So Gazelle, what are your views on Singapore mainstream propaganda media's pro-USA propaganda drivel?
You know as much as I do that's it's all bullshit.
Singapore PAP regime is also pro-USA.
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Gazelle, Singapore mainstream propaganda media likes to spread pro-USA propaganda to the public.
Some naive and igorant people may get influenced by this type of pro-USA propaganda.
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A former assistant secretary of state for the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Robert Gelbard, has said that half Singapore's investment in Burma has "been tied to the family of narco-trafficker Lo Hsing Han".
This is Lo Hsing Han. His son is Steven Law? An Americanized name?!
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Question is does sanction works ? haha Burma is a country that is rather self-substain - it produce all the food and stuff themselve need ..... the rest, the regime is rich enough to smuggle in from other countries . Thich rich and powerful have their means to get their stuff still only at a higher price, the poor is the one that suffer from the sanctions.Originally posted by googoomuck:The point is if the west do not impose sanctions, the benefits won't go to the people anyway. Of course sanctions do not include starving the people. Food can still be allowed to be imported.
So, sanctions can work against such regimes but then there are greedy govt of some countries who do not support sanctions and will enter and sustain the regime because of purely economic gains.
Trade sanction only help keep the country in a state of backwardness which the regime can control. If open up the economy, and industry - that will soon dilute the power of the regime. With improve economy and industry people life will get better , better educate and have more knowledge and power to fight for freedom.
Go to iraq and ask the people there - it down which days are better !!! Even under the tyrant days are better with all the sanctions than now ! So the tyrant is gone, it is better ? Now with US soldiers with guns in the street, seem like trading one tyrant for another one that all. -
Sanction can work ? burma is a self-substaining country - they have their own food and stuff, the ruling junta is rich enough to smuggle in things they need, it is not like if the wife of junta will die if she does not have desperate housewife on cable !!!Originally posted by LazerLordz:Sanctions can work, but they have to be very specific and targeted at individuals of the ruling junta and their associated business partners, be it state or private corporations.
So if west or you think that the junta - is wrong - why not just send soldiers there to overthrow him once and for all. Why go through all those no use actions which is not effective. If you not going to go in there over throw him, then why not try to work with him. Even a tryant will want his country to be get better.... if there is growth and economy his power will be diluted and slowly move to more freedom like in china.
Doing all these sanction - is not going to help, the rich will alway still be able to get stuff, just at a high cost that all, it is still the normal folks you are punishing. So it is the plan that sanction is plan to make the people life so misery and hard that you are forcing the people to rebel ...... then the question .
I question the purpose of the sanctions - as it does not affect the junta, but it is hurting the people, is the aim of the sanction to make the people life more miserable and hard that they will rebel ?
The junta may be bad . But what about the people who put in the sanction ? Both also treat the people as tools .... The people who put in the sanction just using the people as tools , they just want to make life more difficult and hard , so that the people will uprise again the junta they do not like.
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Hello, Australia does not sell arms, weapons to Burma but Singapore does. The singapore is helping the disgusting myanmar gahmen to monitor the Myanmar people in Singapore when the world leaders and world communities condemn the evil regime of Myanmar.Originally posted by storywolf:On one hand our Australia friend is telling us of high morals - when on the other hand they openly admitting to spying on us. So what every high morals is all up to them to say .... !!!
Note that they way they write about Singapore Business Investment in Burma.... hello there is Australia Business investment in Burma also !!! Hello here is some idiot using $ investment as a gadge for morals .... seem more like a case of jealously !!!
Australia like most western countries - think just like a child. Yep stop all business to Burma ... !!! Will that resolve the problem ? You only make the poor people there suffer more. What wrong with Singapore doing business there, in hotels and others .... it is helping the burma people to intergrate to modern world, bring them new technology and education.
You stop trade and business -the burma people will forever be in the dark ages , and under the control of the government. With business and trade, burma people have education, equipments and knowledge..... like what you see on tv ... people are using english, video cams, camera phones and internet to bring the world attention to what happening in Burma now. That would not have been possible is everyone believe like Australia - let the burma stay in the dark ages with sanctions which only hurt the people and keep the leader in power more.
Australia just never learn. when china closed its doors - did the people life and power increase ? not the real change happen only when china open back its doors and engage in trade and business - see nowaday when trade progress and people life and knowledge improve - it force even China government to totally restructure their policy.... isn't this better..
Why must Australia like most western countries keep imposing their methods which does not work and does more harm .... frankly after all these years ... sad to say they already make a mess out of the world..... think it is time for them to sit back and reflect on themselves. -
The sanction is effective if the govt of all countries support it.Originally posted by storywolf:Question is does sanction works ? haha Burma is a country that is rather self-substain - it produce all the food and stuff themselve need ..... the rest, the regime is rich enough to smuggle in from other countries . Thich rich and powerful have their means to get their stuff still only at a higher price, the poor is the one that suffer from the sanctions.
Trade sanction only help keep the country in a state of backwardness which the regime can control. If open up the economy, and industry - that will soon dilute the power of the regime. With improve economy and industry people life will get better , better educate and have more knowledge and power to fight for freedom.
Go to iraq and ask the people there - it down which days are better !!! Even under the tyrant days are better with all the sanctions than now ! So the tyrant is gone, it is better ? Now with US soldiers with guns in the street, seem like trading one tyrant for another one that all.
A sanctioned state like Burma with precious natural resources will likely find willing buyers easily. ThereÂ’s India and China-which shares borders with burma- that focused on trade for political influence and economic gains. With new found wealth, Burma can go on a buying spree for military hardware and software. The Burmese junta is able to find some countries who donÂ’t give two hoots about the people of Burma.
The effectiveness of sanctions also depends on the target country govtÂ’s sensitivity to its own population. ItÂ’s already well known how the Burmese govt treat itÂ’s people.
The oil for food program in Iraq was a sanction thatÂ’s effective because every country supported it.
The Iraqis have elected the govt they wanted. The insurgents are the group of people whoÂ’s causing all the trouble the Iraqis are facing now. -
While we supply the medium for them to kill, it is actually up to them to fire the trigger, when who and how. They had a choice, and they chose to kill the innocent citizens. It ain't really Singapore fault. Water can sink or float a boat, it all depends how you want use the weapon. Even if we don't supply, other countries will supply them, or they might just buy it from the black market, since they are dealing with only unarmed peasants. Might as well supply since we have quite a few assets there. Not for them to kill citizens, but to protect themselves. If they want to use it against themselves, it ain't up to us to control.Originally posted by qlqq9:Hello, Australia does not sell arms, weapons to Burma but Singapore does. The singapore is helping the disgusting myanmar gahmen to monitor the Myanmar people in Singapore when the world leaders and world communities condemn the evil regime of Myanmar.
Just like iraq, most suppliers are from the americans, if not the russians(considering the T90s and AK47s). the usa also supplied many weapons to saddam hussien during the 90s.
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Is it necessary to use such strong language?Originally posted by Gazelle:Another white dic.k sucker thread!! -
he's jealous la, dont bully himOriginally posted by eagle:Is it necessary to use such strong language?
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Some ppl here swallow hook line and sinker whatever crap that is written about against the Singapore.Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Why is that so?
Its amazing.
As long as its against Singapore, they don't think. They are happy to come across it. They just snatch it and post it here. No question asked.
And its the very same ppl who will demand proof, source or statistics when you refute their immature rantings.
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Only in a perfert world - the sanction is effective, and all country support it which is someting impossible and only happen in dream !Originally posted by googoomuck:The sanction is effective if the govt of all countries support it.
The oil for food program in Iraq was a sanction thatÂ’s effective because every country supported it.
The Iraqis have elected the govt they wanted. The insurgents are the group of people whoÂ’s causing all the trouble the Iraqis are facing now.
So why do impractical sanctions that is based on dream.
The oil for food program ! That is even worst example - plain day light robbery under the name of justice .come on you got the whole US forces navy and planes are patrolling and trying force the iraq to sell them their oil and in return for food at gun point ! Is it a good deal ? You try to go to your petrol kisok - tell the owner there - you give me petrol and i give you food ! If it is such a good deal - oh i am sure the owner will accept it right !!! .... if you get kick out - that prove one point - it is worst deal , force at gun point misuing justice name. By the way, oil was still smuggle out to selll via syria and other neighbouring countries
. Did the oil for food work ? it just Sadamn still have all the things he need, and enjoying life, the poor suffer more.
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SINGAPORE isn't just skilled at mandatory executions of drug traffickers, running an excellent airport and selling cameras on Orchard Road. It also does a useful trade keeping Burma's military rulers and their cronies afloat.
This is what I'm unhappy about. If Singapore, as the current Chairman of ASEAN, really wants to end this situation once and for all, she has got to stop all export of weaponry to the regressive regime. Why help the junta to continue to suppress the people with more weapons? -
I wonder what sort of language will you use if your children start to address a white man as their real dad.Originally posted by eagle:Is it necessary to use such strong language?
