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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Something fishy…

Posted by on November 10 at 12:31 PM

The International Herald Tribune reports that Myanmar has suddenly and mysteriously moved its capital to a remote mountain hideout:

“At precisely 6:37 a.m. on Sunday, according to one report - with a shout of ‘Let’s go!’ - a convoy of trucks began a huge, expensive and baffling transfer of the government of Myanmar from the capital, Yangon, to a secret mountain compound 320 kilometers to the north.”

The new capital has underground bunkers, military headquarters, meeting halls, and a golf course. How creepy would it be to live in a capital and watch the entire government apparatus roll out of town at 6 a.m. without a word of warning? Even creepier than this.