Women's panties threaten Burmese Junta

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:47 PM EDT

Article Source: The Register (UK)

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The Burmese military is facing an unexpected threat from female opponents to its regime - a deluge of panties dispatched to the country's embassies in a "in a culturally insulting gesture of protest" against its recent crackdown on protestors.

According to AP the Panties for Peace initiative is not merely symbolic, since the the group behind the campaign - Lanna Action for Burma - claims "superstitious generals, especially junta leader General Than Shwe... believe that contact with women's underwear saps them of power".

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Women Send Panties to Myanmar in Protest	Associated Press	Fri Oct 19	4
"Panties for Peace" Campaign Wins Wide Support	Irrawaddy.org	Fri Oct 19	3
Activists send female underwear to Burmese embassies	Guardian Unlimited	Sun Oct 21	2

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