Would Burma be Opening Gates of Hell by Putting Senior General Than Shwe on the Dock?
_ by Ko Sala Would Senior General Than Shwe be called upon the dock like Saddam? Gen Shwe still rule as a dictator and Saddam does not. One of them with years of experience as a dictator and the other is relatively fresh or inexperience in ruling a country but still rules seemly not wilted by the pressure to relinquish power. A melodramatic defiance of Saddam in the Iraqi court indeed appeared to be an emotional Tsunami of the dictator. I woke up on Sunday morning with breaking news of Saddam Husseins trial in which the court passed a death sentence upon Saddam by hanging. With my half awake mood I could not resist to flick through several TV channels to get live reporting from Iraq. I managed to hold my flickering action of TV channels to listen to John Simpson, the BBC Chief Foreign Correspondent presenting live from outside the Iraqi court. Like several other commentators on Iraq, John never missed to highlight the verdict as opening the gates of hell. The gates of hell – statement
