Will panties weaken the Myanmar military junta?
Editors of the popular South African women’s magazine Marie Claire believe so. According to an article originally published in Praetoria News:
The popular South African women’s magazine has joined the global call for people to join the “panty protest” against Myanmar’s regime by sending women’s underwear to the junta’s embassy in Pretoria. Its current issue calls on its readers to send their knickers to the embassy as a form of protest against human rights abuses.
Thein Win, chairperson of the Free Burma Campaign South Africa, said: “It is an excellent idea. Send more panties to sap more power so that they know people do not support them.”
It is reported that the 73-year-old head of the military, Than Shwe, and members of the military junta believe that contact with women’s panties - clean or dirty - will sap them of their strength. Embassies have received underwear from Thailand, Australia, Singapore and the UK.
It will certainly sap their power if you send panties to burma especially dirty ones if they are placed over the heads of the burmese junta like in the picture above, one pair of dirty ones would knock me out never mind thousands.