Burma's insurance underwritters

Hello and welcome to another Burma discussion forum.

This time we are going to discuss the complicity of foreign corporate actors in the regime, and in particular insurance companies which provide credit and protection from prosecution for the government.

Such corporations, such as the infamous Lloyds of London, have given the Burmese government, continuous high credit rankings so that they can buy weapons and artillery which are later used on the country's citizens and particulary ethnic minorities.

This is a a more exhaustive, but still unfortunately limited, list of insurance underwriters of the Burmese regime from the US Campaign for Burma.
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/insuranceaction.php

You will find that these corporations are worldwide and not located in one city or one country but rather constitute in the words of Alexander Solzhetnitsyn "an archipelago of secretness" from Singapore to London, in Dubai and in New Delhi.

These corporations have local subsidiaries which process transactions of miltary material using credit rankings and collateral of the regime.

Corporations have historically played a seminal role to maintain a tyrannical and despotical regime from apartheid South Africa to Sudan, and in caudillo ruled- South America during the cold war.

Corporations are the bankrollers of money, which cannot be acquired through international governmental and/or non-governmental organizations.

Primer, Awareness and Call to Action for Burma

Now, it is fascinating to see how quickly picked up the ineffable horrors that the Burmese government has been subjecting it's people for a very long time only after the media pressured Burma to accept foreign aid to alleviate the suffering of the Cyclone Nargis, but this was a very insubstantial symbol indeed.

After all, the human rights abuses have been perpetrated for almost 50 years since Ne Win, a leader of a military junta, illegally stole power from the "democratic" elected government. However, compared to what will follow, the previous government would constitute a democracy, but compared to other democracies, it was very weak indeed.

In the immediate aftermath of the otherthrow of the democracy, Ne Win and his conspirators begin to institute press and media censorships, perfect black holes to acquire immunity and impunity for all subsequent actions, which prove to be the vilest since Hitler and before the Khmer Rouge and certainly comprable to other mass murderers in every continent. Under his leadership the army began to coordinate nefarious machinations against the minority groups of his country, killing his own people due to their dissidence to the government, due to their underrepresentation and marginalization.
http://myamarnews.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html and click on the Youtube videos on the right.

These videos speak in violet, unforgetable, grisly, heartbreaking and show the full depravity of the Tatmadaw(the Burmese internal military analogous to our US Army) and they show a side of Burma, even those who are aware of the country, know much about, and their images are more expressive, emotional and otherwise, of the full scale emotional and physical devastation of the country and speak on a higher plain then I could possibly even begin to express.

Now, I am not just posting empty words, if you have a conscience, heart and/or awareness of this country and feel enough is enough, join my Burma group on google, burma-watchers@gmail.com and end this !