A Game Mice Rarely Win
Anger and fear may drive mice to square off against the fiercest cat—but my money’s still on the cat.
A source in Myanmar told CNN that students and other civilians “are playing a terrible game of cat and mouse” with security forces.
“The boldest 100 stand about three blocks away from the line of soldiers and shout slogans and taunts at them,” the source said.
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In one area of the city, police were seen rounding up and arresting anti-government activists, a report posted on Mizzima.com said.
It would certainly be safer for them to play cat-and-mouse with a different cat—an amoral one, rather than an immoral one:
[I]nvesting in Myanmar has brought accusations that petroleum corporations offer economic support to the country’s repressive regime, and in some cases are complicit in human rights abuses. This week’s bloody clampdowns on protests have escalated the activists’ calls for energy companies to pull out of the country.
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“It is business as usual,” said Sidhichai Jayamt, [PTTEP]’s manager for external relations. “When we have a contract with the government, it doesn’t really matter who the government is.”
Another appropriate last word on the subject.