Burma / Myanmar

I am amazed at the courage of these people, monks and citizens, who stand up to murderers with guns, demanding their freedom.

It encourages me that people will not put up with indignity and totalitarianism forever. Even facing death, they confront power.

I hope there will be a miracle and somehow the bloodshed will end with freedom for everyone there. But this seems unlikely.

(The picture of the monk is taken from Flickr user, honey-bee's collection. The original is available here. It and this edited version are distributed under the Creative Commons attribution license. The author of the original photo has made it available to anyone under the terms of that license, thus my use of it should not be seen as any sort of endorsement by that author of my opinions.)