Asked in a BBC interview whether he was afraid he would be swept away by the winds of change like Mikhail Gorbachev after the fall of the Soviet Union, Thein Sein answered: "I would like to say that Gorbachev and I are not alike, I tell you that.
Twitter user @oma_kazi sums it up nicely: „glaube [sic!] banksy hat sich selbst zerstört, kunst im käfig wollte der garantiert nie sein!" ["I think Banksy has destroyed himself, art in a cage he certainly never wanted that".].
For another, the government has not fundamentally softened its policies about state-sanctioned violence: In the same speech on Thursday, Thein Sein also said, "I am firmly committed to using the power vested in me by the Constitution to deploy our security forces and to use existing laws to prevent and protect the life, liberty and security of my fellow citizens".
"I believe President Thien Sein is genuine about democratic reforms and I am very happy that Prime Minister Cameron thinks that the suspension of sanctions is the right way to respond to this.
The most dominant trend in purse seining is that in El Niño years, the catch in PNG waters tends to fall as areas favorable for purse seining move to the east (i.e. towards the Kiribati zone).
If, however, she deigned to look at any of us directly, we should have a question ready (which, of course, had me frantically readying a German question – in the end I plumped for "Sein oder nicht sein?", or "To be, or not to be?").
"I met with President Thien Sein today and there are prospects for change in Burma and I think it is right for the rest of the world to respond to those changes.
"I urged President Thein Sein not to do any trade with North Korea that violates international regulations," Mr. Lee said at a joint news conference with the Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon on Tuesday, the South Korean news media reported.
We will continue to use "exists" for the most general mode of being, i.e., Meinong's Sein.
"I cannot describe how happy I was when I heard the news," said U Kyaw Win Sein, a rice farmer in Wah Thi Ka who is helping organize the campaign.
He and the President had been young officers together, and I asked him why Thein Sein was making these changes.
