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cbclark4
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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What would you think if the USA went in and just took out the military dictators in Burma? Imperialist or savior?
If they did do it now, China might have to bite its lip with the Olympics so close. |
Well, RAMBO was recently in the region with DELTA FORCE 
Stallone & Crew Saw Myanmar Aftermath
By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Oct 1, 4:53 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Sylvester Stallone says he and his "Rambo" sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border.
"I witnessed the aftermath � survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off," Stallone told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday. "We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia and this was more horrific."
The 61-year-old actor-director returned to the U.S. eight days ago from shooting "John Rambo," the fourth movie in the action series, on the Salween River separating Thailand and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
Stallone said he was in Thailand for six months, most of it along or on the river.
"This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams," Stallone said. "All the trails are mined. The only way into Burma is up the river."
This was before the crackdown last week against the largest pro-democracy protests in Myanmar in two decades. After the government increased fuel prices in August, public anger turned to mass protest against 45 years of military dictatorship. Last week, soldiers responded by opening fire with automatic weapons on unarmed demonstrators.
For decades, Myanmar's army has waged a brutal war against ethnic groups in which soldiers have razed villages, raped women and killed innocent civilians.
The "Rambo" script, written long before the present Myanmar uprising, features boatman John Rambo � the Vietnam War-era Green Beret who specializes in violent rescues and revenge � taking a group of mercenaries up the Salween River in search of missing Christian aid workers in Myanmar. The character "realizes man is just a few paces away from savagery when pushed."
"I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and they said Burma was the foremost area of human abuse on the planet,"
Stallone said.
Shots were fired over the film crew's head, he said.
"We were told we could get seriously hurt if we went on."
"I was being accused, once again, of using the Third World as a `Rambo' victim. The Burmese are beautiful people.
It's the military I am portraying as cruel," he said.
Stallone is now editing "John Rambo," which will be released in January. He wants the Motion Picture Association of America will give the film an "R" rating.
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Sylvester Stallone: http://www.sylvesterstallone.com |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I gotta see that movie. I love Rambo! |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007.
After days of delays, Myanmar's reclusive junta leader granted an audience Tuesday to U.N. envoy Gambari hoping to broker an end to a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
(AP Photo/MRTV)
L-R: United Nations official Ibrahim Gambari poses with Myanmar's Senior General Than Shwe, Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, General Thura Shwe Mann and Acting Prime Minister Lieutenant General Thein Sein after a meeting in Myammar's administrative capital Naypyidaw.
Gambari met with Shwe and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wrapping up a mission aimed at halting a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests.(AFP/UNIC-HO)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_on_re_as/myanmar (etc) |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Myanmar Junta Hunts Dissidents
U.S. Diplomat Says People Pulled From Homes
By The Associated Press
YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers announced that they were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar's largest city Wednesday and the top U.S. diplomat in the country said military police were pulling people
out of their homes during the night.
Military vehicles patrolled the streets before dawn with loudspeakers blaring that:
"We have photographs. We are going to make arrests!"
Shari Villarosa, the acting U.S. ambassador in Myanmar, said in a telephone interview that people in Yangon were terrified.
"From what we understand, military police ... are travelling around the city in the middle of the night, going into homes and picking up people," she said.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/myanmar |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Hundreds of monks - who led the protests - have been detained and sources have told the BBC
they will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7025357.stm
While it's unlikely this would ever happen, here's where i would be tempted to support sending in RAMBO
along with Delta Force etc.
Strategy, stealth, & instant karma.
Free the monks! |
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