Comments on: Should Suu Kyi Support Private Armies? http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/03/should-suu-kyi-support-private-armies/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:28:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sri http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/03/should-suu-kyi-support-private-armies/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Sri Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:42:28 +0000 http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/03/should-suu-kyi-support-private-armies/#comment-40 i agree with asg- despite the jallianwalabagh massacre or the man-made bengal famine some would say civil disobedience worked for next door neighbor india. but wittman probably subscribes to the revisionist version of india's history where brits were a somewhat reluctant and benign imperial power who were just there to civilize the indians i agree with asg- despite the jallianwalabagh massacre or the man-made bengal famine some would say civil disobedience worked for next door neighbor india. but wittman probably subscribes to the revisionist version of india’s history where brits were a somewhat reluctant and benign imperial power who were just there to civilize the indians

]]> By: asg http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/03/should-suu-kyi-support-private-armies/comment-page-1/#comment-34 asg Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:57:23 +0000 http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/03/should-suu-kyi-support-private-armies/#comment-34 All fine points. I'll call out this bit from the Wittman quote: <i>Only if a government in power is at least relatively respectful of human rights can unarmed civil disobedience work as an effective political device…</i> Is this really true? What about Denmark's noncooperation with the Nazis, or for that matter the American civil rights movement? The federal government may have been respectful of human rights, but I challenge anyone to look at the state police & bureaucracies in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama and say the same, especially with respect to black people. And there was a lot of civil rights struggle before the feds got involved (e.g. the desegregation of downtown Nashville). And then there are the examples of Otpor in Serbia and Gotovye in the Ukraine. All fine points. I’ll call out this bit from the Wittman quote:

Only if a government in power is at least relatively respectful of human rights can unarmed civil disobedience work as an effective political device…

Is this really true? What about Denmark’s noncooperation with the Nazis, or for that matter the American civil rights movement? The federal government may have been respectful of human rights, but I challenge anyone to look at the state police & bureaucracies in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama and say the same, especially with respect to black people. And there was a lot of civil rights struggle before the feds got involved (e.g. the desegregation of downtown Nashville). And then there are the examples of Otpor in Serbia and Gotovye in the Ukraine.

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