Sanctions or Mismanagement?

As everyone knows, poverty has been going on in Burma since after 1962. The junta has always been pointing out the sanctions as major reason for putting Burma into poverty. Actually, if the junta has enough knowledge and were capable to maintain reasonable thinking they would find sanction is not the source of poverty, because Burma has potential natural resources and still making hundred of millions dollars every year. Again, the junta believe sanctions were decided by DASSK. In fact, DASSK is not the one who decide whether Burma be sanctioned.

The main reason of poverty and starvation in Burma is mismanagement of the military leaders and corruption. To explain more about the mismanagement, the junta has no clue about today business world. Many of the army officials were graduated from May Myo military university, not from Business school. The worse, most ministers in Burma are retired army officials. Consequently, there are a lot of unsolved problems in many civilian administration. And the corruption has been the worst case. They may refute about corruption, of course. But, they cannot when they were caught red-handed. For instance, many overseas bank account s of Burmese army officials and their relatives were often frozen in different western countries, such as England, United States and Australia. For example, almost four hundred army officials of bank accounts were frozen in Great Britain three and half years ago. Recently, Australia froze the account of 422 military officials and their allies. Where did they get the money from? Burmese embassies around the globe going after ordinary citizens for tax, but not to those who never work overseas and declare their foreign bank account. Why they don't want to put the money in Burmese National Banks? Don't they know investing in Burma is much more important than anything? If the junta , itself asking the Burmese overseas citizens to invest money in Burma, why do they invest their money in western countries? If Than Shwe hates west world, why did he let his people and his families to keep the money in west countries?

For General Than Shwe, he should be much better controlling his people and family rather than arresting innocent citizens who protest because of the starvation.