8th
August
2008
Charles J. Brown
11:31 pm
11:31 pm
So Much for Auspicious Numbers
From Reuters:
Myanmar’s junta arrested 48 activists on Friday for a protest march marking 20 years since the army crushed an “8-8-88″ democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives, an opposition official said.
So at almost the very moment that the Chinese chose to start the Controlympics, the artists formerly known as SLORC decided to revisit the crackdown of twenty years ago.
Isn’t that what the ChiComs would call auspicious?
Maybe not.
Don’t worry. I’m sure that Laura Bush is on the case.
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