Myanmar Sentences 14 Democracy Supporters

The article that I chose this week is about a group of fourteen democratic advocates from Myanmar who were sentenced to sixty-five years in prison on charges that have no real bearing to the grand scheme of things. Those charges that were filed included: possession of foreign currency without a permit and possession of certain electronic equipment that is outlawed. These charges anger me because they are just a way for the military run government that is established there to put a group of revolutionary activists in jail so that they can’t change public opinion and cause an uprising. This might just be the liberty and freedom that I have learned in living in America for my entire life, but it seems as though limiting these revolutionary minds from voicing there opinions. Although they do not have the same laws as us, I find it difficult to grasp the concept that these offenses merit a sixty-five year sentence.