Of Weddings and Dictators

As we know, disaster aid in Myanmar is slowly trickling in, though often-confounded by the oppressive regime's efforts to control it.

Listening to the CBC this morning, I came across something interesting: the daughter of the dictator, Than Shwe, was married in a lavish ceremony in late 2006 -- and videos from the wedding were posted on YouTube... enraging the people, who caught a rare look at how their dictator actually lives.

Technology to the people! Nobody would have been able to glimpse this side of his life, years ago...


It strikes me how many of the images are the same as in an American wedding -- the bride's nervous smile as the jewels are being put upon her... Trying to be delicate while cutting the towering cake.

And how different; all the troops present.




from the YouTube comments:

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i fucking hate these fucking assholes there enjoying while my peope are dieng and suffering from hunger and millions of other issues........fuck do they not ssee that there country is a fourth world country not even a third world country anymore.

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Watch closely and you may see the entrapped souls of starved children twinkle in those diamonds. You may see the blood of countless monks pour of the silky drapes, and the eyes of a thousand dead men stare wateringly from the white of her wedding dress. Watch and you may know that if there is a place of reckoning, then the fires will burn gingerly on the flesh of those who've fattened themselves on the suffering of others.


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wow....is ur country that bad?sorry to interupt but i went clueless with what's happening in u guys' country...what that dictator did?erm does ur country practice diplomation?anybody wana tell something?i really wana know

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Ew! They're going to sleep together? Dude...I think I just lost some of my youth

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...why is everyone disgusted?

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becoz the freaking bride looks like FIONA!!! oh wait..i'd say 'fiona' is more beautiful than her...so let's just say she looks like a fat bitch fulled with shit!!!!

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Because that government has a strangle hold over the country. Lets just say it isn't a democracy.