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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Misidentification II: No Guarding Marine is Allowed to be in the Sea for Three Days!


This is a true interesting story, which I have learned in Burma. Sometimes, some people systematically create misinformation for their benefits.

It was in Pathein, the capital city of Irrawaddy Division of Burma. Irrawaddy delta is the most rice productive area in Burma. One of my friends who studied in Rangoon was from Pathein and his parents were extremely rich. They were billionaires (in Burmese currency). According to my friends’ sharing in restaurant, I had a chance to know about this story.

In 1980s, illegally exporting rice from Burma to Bangladesh by watering route was a trend because the rice price in Bangladesh was three to five times more than the price in Burma. Even many people from our village used to be in the business and some people became rich. Any way, my friends’ father owned more than ten big ships those can cross the sea with thousands of rice bags. He owned those ships half legally and half illegally. You could confuse. On those days, Burma was a socialist country. If somebody had too much things, you know what happened. All possessions could become the government’s. So he had to keep those possessions cleverly, half-half.

Any way, since my friend’s father was participating with a lot of money in the rice exporting process illegally, he had to approach systematically, rather than just taking risk. It was amazing the way how he worked out was. Those rich people approached the Executive Director of Weather Department of Burma. It was just like a chess playing. The group of rich people gave about two million per month to that director very secretly. On the day the rice ships could departure to Bangladesh, there was an emergency announcement by the Weather Department through the highest person’s special order - “It is estimated that there will be a storm within coming three days!” Then, what happened as consequences. All marines from guarding navy ships were in the land (three days off) because of weather security matter, they were not allowed to be in the sea. It created the best and safest situation for the illegal rice exporting ships. Do you see the process now? You may amaze sometimes, how people are powerfully, systematically creating and playing around!

I am just giving you a little tip that sometimes misinformation are systematically created by the insiders, through out my experience. Thank you.

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