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Burmese generals caught in the act
Tue, 05/13/2008 - 3:18pm
It's getting harder for the Burmese state to hide the truly profound level of its own dysfunction:
The Burmese generals were visible all right. State television showed them handing out boxes of the small amount of aid allowed in from neighbouring Thailand. Unwittingly, it also showed that the Burmese leadership had plastered their own names over the true origins of the food aid to fool their own people into believing that the emergency relief supplies had come from them.
You know things are bad when a military dictatorship can't even get its own propaganda right.
(Hat tip: Reason's Kerry Howley)
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