Human Rights Day

Time to get political.

20,000 or more dead in China, ten times that in Burma. Whilst the cameras are allowed in China, keeping up the appearances of a good, humanitarian government (mostly in anticipation of the Olympics, don't forget!) We must not forget the people of Burma.

This is the country which has seen its military junta dominate political life for the past 60 years, disavow its pledges on democracy (repeatedly jailing democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi who remains under house arrest to this day) and even taking the disappointing move of pushing through its unjust referendum on 'democracy' literally days after Cyclone Nargis struck.

Disappointing.

So, don't forget Burma, even though, already, it is fast disappearing from the television news.

Incidentally the above photograph is from New Delhi, and example of a stable, democratic state in the area, which is now fast approaching China for economic progress. An example to many.