White Champagne Turns into Red Wine in Myanmar
(Le champagne blanc se transforme en vin rouge dans Myanmar)
In Myanmar, a Japanese was shot to death.
According to BBC, "One of the people killed on Thursday was a Japanese video journalist. According to the official accounts, eight protesters were also killed. One man was reported killed on Wednesday.
Japan said it would make an official protest over the death in Rangoon of Kenji Nagai, a video journalist for Tokyo-based news agency APF News." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7017496.stm
In a picture presented in a midnight TV news program last night in Japan, the Japanese journalist was lying down on his back showing a belly where he was shot, with his arms stretched over the head but holding a camera, while a soldier was looking down at him nearby and holding his rifle further at the ready and a crowd was running away driven from the site of a rather ancient-looking street in South East Asia.
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My warning to young men here and there is that a bullet in a size of your finger can really take away your life, while you might contribute to, say, building a skyscraper such as a World Trade Center in your long life.
Remember that Jesus Christ never carried a gun. You must follow him.
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During WWII, the Imperial Army of Japan committed some unbelievably unfruitful operations in addition to its advancement into the Continent of China before WWII, despite opposiotion from civilian members of the cabinet of the Imperial Japan's Government.
One of them is the Imphal Operation put into motion from Myanmar:
"The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in North-East India from March until July 1944. Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses. Together with the simultaneous Battle of Kohima on the road by which the encircled Allied forces at Imphal were relieved, the battle was the turning point of the Burma Campaign, part of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Imphal
The Imperial Army of Japan dispatched 86,000 troops, 32,000 of whom were killed and more than 40,000 of whom were wounded in the Imphal Operation.
(The Imperial Army always kept strict order in its organization as well as correct records as modern machinery in most of cases.)
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Why must a Japanese journalist be killed in Myanmar 63 years after the Battle of Imphal as one of ten or so people unluckily shot to death, while there were thousands of protesters on the street?
It is a warning from Heaven above to us.
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There is a Japanese proverb: if you are among red, you will become red (si vous êtes parmi le rouge, vous deviendrez rouge).
Maybe if you are among Myanmar protesters, you will become one of them.
And, if one Japanese becomes one of them, there is a chance that all the Japanese will become like them.
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There is a famous Japanese film, yet, on Japanese soldiers in Myanmar during and after WWII: The Burmese Harp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burmese_Harp_%28film%29
In its story, a Japanese soldier became a Buddhist monk to appease the spirits of fallen soldiers and stay in Myanmar forever after the war.
Only a good soldier can become a good monk (nur ein guter Soldat kann ein guter Mönch werden).
(If you are working in Tokyo, Paris, or New York, you may be very safe.
If I can confirm your safety everyday, I feel fine.
But, what cities does the God love more, Yangon or Beijing, or Baghdad or New York, otherwise, Tokyo or Paris?
Indeed, if champagne is involved in wine, it will turn into wine, won't it?)
"THE CONFLICT IN MAN"