Soe Win, soe what? Ain’t karma a bitch?
Myanmar’s incumbent Prime Minister Soe Win, a hardliner best known for allegedly orchestrating an attack on democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has died at age 59, state media said Friday.
General Soe Win rose in the ranks after the deadly attack on the Nobel laureate’s convoy in May 2003, an event known to her supporters as “Black Friday…“
But eventually Fate catches up with you, as you’d know, if you were a Buddhist. Like the hundreds of monks beaten on Soe Win‘s orders recently.
At least 13 people were killed and more than 2,000 arrested in the crackdown on the largest pro-democracy demonstrations the country has seen in almost 20 years, drawing international outrage expressed in a statement by the UN Security Council on Thursday.
raincoaster 
While I’m a Burkian non-advocate of assassination (‘Glorious Revolutions’ are so much more tasteful than ‘Committees of Public Safety’), one would hope that karma would also take its course on the eastern Pacific rim.
Any day now.