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Thank you. I know more about Myanmar than I do about Facebook now. And what a long upsetting read that was. There are hardly words to describe such total failur
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
Thank you. I know more about Myanmar than I do about Facebook now. And
what a long upsetting read that was. There are hardly words to
describe such total failure of humanity. I wonder if I may have
offended you by understatement. I am sorry if that is so. In place of
"sectarian conflict" I should have said:
A colossal hell-hole boasting almost a century [1] of uninterrupted
brutality, millions of dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees, an
intractable death-spiral of poverty, disease, natural disaster,
religious division, foreign arms dealers, corporate profiteers,
military maniacs, mercenaries, poisoned land, torture camps, rape as a
systematic weapon of war, child soldiers, land mines, opium farmers,
and.... Facebook.
Admittedly the last of those is the least of their worries.
Still, for the sake of brevity what phrase like "ongoing civil war" or
"ethnic divisions" might succeed, because there are no few words that
can describe such a situation or would be acceptable language on this
polite board.
[1] All those articles seem to suppose things went bad _after_ the
British left. Being British, I am supposing they may have started
sooner.