[Buddha-l] Shakti power in Burma

[jkirk]

Sort of like sending boxes of old shoes to your favorite pol in India!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/burma/story/0,,2195188,00.html

Activists send female underwear to Burmese embassies
Martin Hodgson
Friday October 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>  


	Activists exasperated at the failure of diplomacy to apply pressure
on Burma's military regime are resorting to a new means of protest against
the regime's recent crackdown: sending female underwear to Burmese
embassies. 
	Embassies in the UK, Thailand, Australia and Singapore have all been
targeted by the "Panties for Peace" campaign, co-ordinated by an activist
group based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 
	The manoeuvre is a calculated insult to the junta and its leader,
General Than Shwe. Superstitious junta members believe that any contact with
female undergarments - clean or dirty - will sap them of their power, said
Jackie Pollack, a member of the Lanna Action for Burma Committee.
	Not only are they brutal, but they are also very superstitious. They
believe that touching a woman's pants or sarong will make them lose their
strength," Ms Pollack told Guardian Unlimited.

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