I watched the Dispatches program on Burma on Monday evening with Tom and Beth. There was a weird silence as we heard of villages burnt, land mines hidden outside the front doors of people, children killed or press ganged into the army.

Burma has a massive army, but no enemies other than its own people. These soldiers are involved in a brutal process of ethnic cleansing.

As the program outlined that the military in Burma would seriously struggle without western funding through oil and tourism, the main two countries being France and the UK – she asked a question:

‘Dad … why doesn’t our government do something, or at least stop our money being used?’

Good question.
Interesting to see that a 10 year old girl understands the brutal injustice on display here.
Why can’t politicians?