Re: Concrete Canadian action needed to end military dictatorship in Buma

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Posted by David Murrell, WatchDog Newsletter on 11:03:20 2007/09/27

In Reply to: Concrete Canadian action needed to end military dictatorship in Burma posted by CCD Media Release


I stongly agree with CCD's stance on the Burma crisis.

But, as usual, CBC reporter Neil Macdonald gave a very poor discussion of the lame UN treatment of the crisis, as it developed yesterday.

At one point in his piece (yesterday September 26 on the CBC National) Macdonald had three quick, "talking head" sound bites, with he, Macdonald, doing one-word descriptions. He was describing the political reaction to the crisis, for three major countries, as follows:
1. the British UN ambassador: "hard-line";
2. the US UN ambasador: "frustrated";
3. the China UN ambassador: "accomodating", and where Mr. Macdonald then prattles on describing how ineffectual the UN Security Council is in this crisis.

Now, CCD supports will all agree that the UN has been ineffectual in the Burma crisis (is there anything new about this?). Yet Macdonald, in his report, fails to mention that it was China who would have vetoed a stronger resolution than what has been passed. (The Security Council passed a resolution sending a UN observert to the scene.)

All of the above was reported in competent media. Yet Neil Macdonald refused to state that it is China which is blocking concrete action. And last January it was China and Russia which blocked a stronger UN resolution.

So why is Neil Macdonald protecting China? It is very similar to the politics surrounding Darfour and Sudan. There, both China and Russia are supporting Sudan, and vetoing meaningful UN action. Yet the liberal media refuse to criticize China and Russia -- prefering to blame the UN Security Council collectively.

So why is Neil Macdonald and the CBC protecting China? Why indeed?
-- David Murrell, WatchDog Newsletter,
watchdognewsletter@rogers.com

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