Panties for Peace

Apparently the Burmese junta thinks women's panties rob them of their power. So women are sending them by mail, and flinging them over embassy walls.

"Not only are they brutal, but they are also very superstitious," Jackie Pollack, a member of the Lanna Action for Burma Committee, told the Guardian Unlimited. "Condemnation by the United Nations and governments around the world have had no impact on the Burmese regime. This is a way of trying to reach them where they will feel it."