Myanmar Coup

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Sound familiar??:

Myanmar nationals living in Singapore are fearful, but hoping for the best:

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I have been to Myanmar twice. You don’t really discuss with the military there but it is a nice country without any tourism or anything. I bought some rubies.

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now with the US leading such headlines it’s liable to become more popular anywhere!!

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Another problem related to the Myanmar coup_

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Ombugge - are you an agent for Myanmar crews? What are your rates?

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I worked with some good Myanmar seamen. Burma had a long history of seafarers. Unfortunately, like many other Asian countries the seamen are little more than indentured servants who answer to the employment agencies who, at least in my experience, are shore based mafia backed by the government of the day. The good agencies are few but valued by reputable ship managers.

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No I’m not Crewing Agent, or otherwise involved.
BTW; Were you by any change involved in the conversion and operation of this one? (You have mentioned several times that you had some involvement with RoPax vessels in the Red Sea):

Sorry, OT again.

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Yes, I was involved in buying the five Italian flag ropax ferries 70’s built and later converted in Italy according to SOLAS to carry roro cargo and passengers in the Mediterranean. They were sold to us and replaced by new buildings in the 1990’s. Al-Salam Boccaccio was sunk due to sabotage, which I describe at AL SALAM BOCCACCIO 98 webpage - censored by Wikipedia . A sad story. But H&M and P&I insurances paid 100%. Egyptian crew is very good.

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That page is nothing but a litany of incomprehensible assertions, the reading of which can best be described as the intellectual equivalent of doing jenkem. Your argument hinges on several key postulations, all of which are equally ludicrous:

  • There are several instances of poor crisis management highlighted in the accident report and BVR transcript. This cannot be true, so the report must be falsified.
  • Garbage cannot have blocked the scuppers.
  • If the scuppers were somehow blocked, clearing them would have been a simple matter.
  • The ship should have been quite stable with 900 tons of water on the car deck.
  • Capsized ropax boats don’t sink.

Instead of substantiating any of this, you glue it together with self contradictory drivel. It speaks well of Wikipedia that their editors scrubbed any references to this jenkem bottle of a blog.

Sorry about the thread @ombugge, what’s going on in Myanmar is pretty fucked up :frowning:

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Well now, that seems like a reasonable pretext for deposing the government :roll_eyes:

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The ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting apparently failed to agree on a declaration, and Brunei issued its own chairman’s statement.

But the Singapore PM broke with the ASEAN “no interference in internal affairs” principle by calling the use of lethal force in ongoing demonstrations as a “disastrous” move:

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The ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting apparently failed to agree on a declaration, and Brunei issued its own chairman’s statement.

But the Singapore PM broke with the ASEAN “no interference in internal affairs” principle by calling the use of lethal force in ongoing demonstrations is a “disastrous” move:

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Looks like all ASEAN nations are in on it:

That MAY help a lot more than Britain, EU and US imposing sanctions and UN Security Council passing resolutions.