The Joke’s on the Generals
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Burmese cartoonists recently launched a similar game, in which players could use catapaults to hit a flying bulldog representing Than Shwe.
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In August, while cleanup operations were continuing in the cyclone-devastated areas, about 400 cartoons inspired by the disaster were displayed at Rangoon’s well-known Lawkanat Gallery in an exhibition titled “Wake from the Storm.”
The 70 contributing cartoonists knew they were courting trouble with the censors, but they defied official disapproval in favor of giving people something to smile about in their times of hardship.
By going ahead with the exhibition, they remained true to the Burmese tradition of satire.
The Burmese people know very well that humor alone can not overthrow the brutal military regime. But they understand that political humor is the most subtle form of revolt, which destroys the self-esteem of tyrants and forms a means of surviving under totalitarianism.
As the American writer and satirist Mark Twain once wrote: “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
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