Guardian (UK): Burmese opposition ready to escalate pro-democracy fight – Clancy Chassay

Filed under: News, International Members of Burma’s battered and disparate opposition are growing disillusioned with the old methods of the pro-democracy movement and are seeking ways to escalate their armed struggle. “There is a very real debate among us about how to begin a more sustained armed struggle,” an organiser of last September’s failed uprising told the Guardian. “We are ready for that kind of action, if we can get the supplies and training that we need.” Speaking from exile in Thailand, Soe Aung, the chief spokesman for the National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB), an umbrella group representing nearly all facets of Burma’s disparate opposition, said he was witnessing a significant shift in the public attitude across Burma. “After the September uprising and then the terrible cyclone response, the anger is... [read full story]