[Redcercana] Knickers for Burma - Bragas para Birmania

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Yolanda

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3101946.ece

  Knickers to the general becomes latest ploy of Burmese rebels


      By Andrew Buncombe, Asia Correspondent


        Published: 27 October 2007

Activists seeking to pressure the Burmese regime are targeting the
superstitions of its senior generals by asking for people around the
world to send women's underwear to the junta.

In what may be a first, campaigners based in Thailand have called for
supporters to "post, deliver or fling" the underwear to their nearest
Burmese embassy. They believe the senior members of the junta – some
known to be deeply superstitious – could be made to believe they will
lose their authority should they come into contact with the lingerie.

"The Burma military regime is not only brutal but very superstitious.
They believe that contact with a woman's panties or sarong can rob them
of their power," says the website of the Lanna Action for Burma group,
based in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand. The group says that Burmese
embassies have already received underwear from people in Thailand,
Australia, Singapore and the UK.

One of the group's activists, Tomoko, said: "We want to raise awareness
first, and we want to target officials, letting them know we are against
them abusing their power. We are sending the generals panties as a
symbol of putting their power down."

What result the underwear campaign will have is unclear. Burma's senior
general, Than Shwe, is known to be very superstitious. When the regime
decided to move its capital from Rangoon to a new location deep in the
jungle at Naypidaw, the general sought the advice of a numerologist who
told him that the most auspicious time for the move would be 6.37 in the
morning. As a result, the first convoy of government trucks left Rangoon
at precisely that time.

News of the latest effort by activists to pressure the regime came as
hundreds of Burmese riot police returned to the streets of Rangoon
yesterday. The Buddhist Lent season was ending, allowing monks to move
about again, and authorities feared they might spark off protests.



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