Can Burma be considered a good society when its constantly proving the Human Predicament theory?

Burma and the Capabilities Approach

Was an official British colony from 1886-1948 Became a democratic republic after splitting from the UK Military Coup D'état in 1962 where Burma became a single-party authoritarian regime led by the Military Junta

Burma

Started in August of 2007 in response to the governments choice to lift fuel subsidies… Causing the price of gas to jump 66%

The Buddhist Monks started to walk with the protestors after the government, in an effort to crackdown on the protests, put sanctions on the food supply

While the death toll is some what contested it is believed that in the two months 30-130 people were killed with hundreds more imprisoned and beaten

Saffron Revolution

Kenji Nagai

Only foreign

national killed in

the protests.

Nagai was able to

keep taking

pictures while he

bled out from his

gunshot wounds

to the chest.

BurmaInfant Mortality Rate-

54d. Per 1000b. 2009 estimate by

UNICEF

Life Expectancy- 62.7 years 2010 estimate by UN DESA

The World Health Organization ranked Burma the worst performing health care system in the world @ 190th

Physical Well Being

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbMsYQ4ydQ&feature=relmfu

BurmaLiteracy Rate-

89.9% CIA Fact book 2009

No freedom of press as the Military Junta controls what is broadcast to the citizens and world

Informed Decision Making

Journalists are

not allowed

inside Burma

and so much of

what is reported

is from the

citizen

journalist….

The absence of free press

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-i9V2Qpzqw

BurmaHomicide Rates-

between 10-20 per 100,000 inhabitants The Guardian published in 2004

Burma has not had the opportunity to be a economic powerhouse because of foreign trade sanctions in place for blatant human rights violations

Abduc-tion and Deten-

tion21%

Looting & Theft

14%Murder

21%

Rape & Sexual Assualt

15%

Torture14%

Land-mine

Victims15%

Human Rights Vio-lations by Burmese

Government

Safety

Study done by Women's League of Burma circa 2007

In 1990 her

Democratic

leadership party

won 59% of the

vote. Instead of

allowing her to

rule the Burmese

government have

kept her

imprisoned in

her own home.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Please use your liberty to promote ours…..

BurmaPolity IV June 2011

-6Has a constitution

and a parliament but uses both as a ruse for foreign powers

No rule of law and so it makes it easy to squash any resistance

Democracy

When government doesn’t fear their people they can kill religious icons and get away with it….

http://www.youtube.com/v/02uNScGZpj0

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