We Burmese heartily welcome Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar's statement that the United Nations and some countries might intervene in Myanmar's political future ('Malaysia urges Myanmar to free Suu Kyi', July 28).
We are helpless under the military boot and our political leader Aung San Suu Kyi is totally pressured by the junta in Yangon.
The Burmese generals are scared by the popularity of Ms Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy, and I fear that they are now going to ban political movements in Myanmar.
Any kind of intervention by other countries, including military, is urgently needed in Myanmar. The country's situation economically, socially and in other fields is becoming worse and worse. Now one US dollar equals 1,200 kyat; before the junta took power, it was 50 kyat.
If the United Nations and other countries of Southeast Asia put more pressure on the Myanmar junta, China and India may well change their opinion about dealing with it and consequently the generals may have no way to survive.
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