Lip Service Singapore.

Singapore Foreign Ministry released strong statement in the first days of the crackdown inside Burma. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew called the junta generals as dump general. We,Burmese living in Singapore, are over enjoyed by that statements, expecting strong measures from Singapore government. However, in his reply to queries from MP in Singapore parliament, according to FM GeorgeYeo, Burma, is another Iraq waiting to happen. “The fact is,” he wrote in a recent opinion piece, “that without the army playing a major role in any future solution, Myanmar cannot hold together. The border regions remain largely unpacified.” Yeo has recently responded to questions about Singaporean arms sales to the SPDC by saying that Singaporean weapons (tanks and SAMs) are not the sort that would be used in the recent crackdown on protesters in Burma’s cities.

Let Mr Yeo be know that it is being used in “pacification” of the ethnic areas in which over 3,000 villages have been destroyed and half a million people displaced.

In Tokyo, Mr Yeo has reaffirmed that its priorities in Burma, in alignment with those of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), are stability and policy change, and not the ousting of the military regime.

Policy is adopted by a person or a group of people. If this group of people are stubborn and not incline to change the policy, What will Mg Yeo do?. Going to remove that group from policy making body? What a beautiful diplomatic language Mr Yeo use so that both party(Junta and opposition) and international community like to hear.