September 2nd, 2009
The Corruption of Myanmar
The South East Asian city of Myanmar has long been ranked as the most corrupt nation in the world, with the African city of Somalia coming in a close second and the country of Iraq in third place. The deterring agencies of anti-corruption and anti-money laundering are not in place as strongly in Myanmar, also known as Burma, and Somalia as they are in some other countries, and this is one of the causes for the massive cases in the the political realm, the business realm and the social realm.
And the leaders of a corrupt regime or government will get away with as much as they are allowed to get away with. The watchdog group for the world, is Transparency International, and they put out a report each year called the Corruption Perceptions Index. This is a ranking systems of all the countries, based on the known cases from the prior year. One hundred and eighty countries are ranked, as they investigate the perception that the public has of their own country, as well as take into the consideration the perceptions of the politicians and the officials.
Corruption breed not only social apathy, but repression and poverty (http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Asia-and-the-Pacific/Burma-Myanmar-POVERTY-AND-WEALTH.html)as well, and Myanmar is the text book case of a region in such a state of disarray and sadness. Throughout history, apathy in the people has eventually turned into an explosion of human initiative. People get pushed to such a state, that they just simply take matters into their own hands, in an attempt to make the changes necessary for their continued existence and the survival of their society.
Not many years ago, public protest was illustrated when the monks of Myanmar led marches against the government for eight days. This was once once considered to be one of the jewels of the country, and is now the most miserable place in the world. Much is blamed on the seizing of power by the Junta of the country in 1988, for since then it has been a reign of mismanagement, repression and corruption.
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