The World Has Failed Burma - Part Three

"Please use your liberty to promote ours." - Aung San Suu Kyi

This is Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who won a landslide election in 1990. She has been repeatedly imprisoned and lives under house arrest by the military junta.

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After her freedom from 19 months house arrest on May 6, 2002 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi began her organization trips outside of Rangoon. Her release from house arrest was unconditional and as approved by the SPDC she could freely travel throughout the country.

Her first Rangoon precinct trip was to Shwe Pyi Thayar Township NLD head office on 17 May 2002 followed by trips to Daw-bon township NLD head office on 22 May 2002, on 24 May 2002, Kamayut Township NLD head-office, on 13 June 2002, as her fifth trip in Rangoon precinct, she visited Thakayta NLD head office.

Throughout the trip mentioned, she received overwhelming support from the people. She later made her upper Burma trips from 20 June 2002 to 29 June 2002 visiting (16) township in Mandalay and Magwe Divisions continued by trips to Mon and Karen States visiting 12 Townships from (14 Oct 2002 to 17 Oct 2002).

She then visited 14 townships in Pegu Division from (13 Nov 2002 to 27 Dec 2002), 17 Townships in Shan States from (16 Dec 2002 to 24 Dec 2002), and 15 Townships in Arakan States, Magwe Division and Irrawaddy Division from (3 April 2003 to 13 April 2003).Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had experienced harassment from SPDC since 1996. The USDA had interrupted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and caused her trouble throughout her journey in many ways.

Such plot against Daw Aung San Su Kyi had since been arranged in 1996 and was revealed by the SLORC/ SPDC Minister of Railways Transport Ministry and secretary of the USDA U Win Sein.

On 1 Nov 96 at 14:00 hrs, in the compound of the Le Pyin village primary school which is about 1 mile away from Inndaw Township of Sagaing Division, the entire village USDA members' proposals submitting ceremony was held.

U Win Sein who participated in the ceremony, delivered a speech to the attending villagers making strong personal attack on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Furthermore he stated that the creator of the internal political disturbances, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, must be eradicated.

"Do you understand what is meant by Eradicated"? "Eradicated means to kill", and added, "Dare you kill Daw Suu Kyi?". He repeated this 5 or 6 times, but no one answered him. In addressing the people by microphone and raising the question dare you kill Daw Suu Kyi was heard not only by those attending the ceremony but also villagers in the village and by monks in the monastery.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was injured when she was brought by force back to Rangoon from above roadside. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s car was put off the road by the authority during her trip to Irrawaddy Division in August 1998.

Regarding this matter, NLD chairman U Aung Shwe informed Senior General Than Shwe by letter with letter No: 179/Cee (Nyein)/96 of 20 Dec 96.

To be continued ...

The World Has Failed Burmah - Part Two.

In 1988, when students and monks were massacred in Myanmar, Universities were closed and the education system completed its deterioration. Burma regime infiltrates demonstrations to spark violence.

At least 4,000 or more monks have been arrested and questioned by government authorities in their recent crackdown on protests favoring democracy for the nation. It is reported that they are being held at the Government Technological Institute, the Kyaikkasan racing track and in a prison called Insein Prison.

From these locations, they will be transported to prisons located in the extreme northern part of Burma. The monks have not been allowed to wear their robes and are in shackles, and some of them have been beaten. Many have also initiated a hunger strike, refusing to eat.

The aftermath of a massacre of 12 villagers who were attempting to flee to Thailand after their villages were forcibly relocated by Burma’s military regime.

30-40 villagers had stopped to sleep for the night at two huts in the forest when the Burmese military came upon them, lined up in front of the hut, and opened fire.

Ten were killed immediately including children aged 2, 5, 7,14 and a dead pregnant woman.

Millions of Burmese people have been forced to leave their homes by the military regime; relatively few escape to refugee camps in Thailand.

The vast majority of the villagers eke out a living in the jungle, always on the run from the regime - the Junta!

What is a Junta?

A junta is a government run by committee that has taken the meaning of a military government. Different then a dictatorship, a junta is a collection of rulers, in the case of the Burmese, the military leaders.

Burma’s Gen. Than Shwe, has a history of war crimes and must be indicted for murdering his own people.

Evil Burmese General Than Shwe, forbids dissent. He is afraid of the monks power and has now chosen to arrest, torture or kill them. He has also sent untold numbers to northern Burma slave labour camps.

The young generation was taught to accept and internalize the twisted histories and other lies fed to them in state run schools instead of being taught how to use their brains, how to think, and how to question.

The news and media surrounding them was always manipulated and controlled by the Junta. Myanmar is a country in which rumours fly as no where else

To be continued ...

The World Has Failed Burmah - Part One.

Myanmar is made up of 135 national races, of which the main national races are Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Bamar, Mon, Rakhine and Shan.

The population is estimated to be over 60 million and there are more than 500,000 (including refugees) in Malaysia today.

The nationality is Myanmar. There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Myanmar. Some of the Ethnic groups are listed as Akha, Palaung, Padaung, Naga, Taron, Eng and many more near extinct tribes.

The religions are Buddhist, Christian and Muslim. The major language is Myanmar, but minority ethnic groups have their own languages. English is widely spoken and understood.

Burma is also known as Myanmar. The country's military rulers changed the official English name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989. They also changed the capital's English name from Rangoon to Yangon.

Burma was a parliamentary democracy from 1948 until 1962, when the military took over. Under the rule of a man named Ne Win, the Burmese army imposed a quasi-socialist police state on the Burmese people.

Over two-and-half decades, Win and his military goons wrecked the country. What was once a relatively prosperous (by Southeast Asian standards) country with natural resources and brainpower was turned into an oppressive, poverty-stricken mess.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of Gen. Aung San, a hero of the Burmese independence movement who was assassinated by political rivals in 1947.

Aung San Suu Kyi was a mother and housewife in the U.K. She flew to Burma early that year to take care of her sick, elderly mother

Moved by the courage of anti-government protesters, she delivered the first public political speech of her life on Aug. 26, 1988. She electrified the crowd of 100,000 by calling for multi-party elections.

The Burmese military was not amused. In the days that followed, it slaughtered up to 3,000 demonstrators and placed Suu Kyi under house arrest. She went on a hunger strike – demanding that she be placed in the same miserable prison as her lesser-known pro-democracy leaders.

In 1990, the military allowed elections. Suu Kyi's party won in a landslide, so the military nullified the result. Suu Kyi has spent the last 17 years in prison or under house arrest.

Riot police and military personnel crack down on the protests in Yangon. There are reports of a brutal crackdown at night, with hundreds of people killed in villages, towns and cities.

They came to kill the monks!

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HE In The SHE World - Seeing Is Believing

Slides : Aldred Loh.

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Amnesty International also notes that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a prisoner of conscience, is one of more than 2,100 political prisoners in Myanmar. On the 8thof August , the Junta sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further 18 months house arrest for violating an earlier condition of her existing house arrest, after an uninvited man spent two nights there in early May. Amnesty International condemns her arrest and finds this as nothing more than a legal and political agenda.


Come support our event and help us end the human rights violation in Burma. Amnesty International Malaysia will be screening the movie Our Burmese Days and the award winning movie Burma VJ and will launch Action Sheets and Petitions appealing to end the human rights violation in Burma.


Annexe Gallery,
2nd Floor,
Central Market Annexe,
Jalan Hang Kasturi,
Date: 20th of August (Thursday),
Time: 4:00-10:00 pm

Suhakam

Suhakam will hold a public inquiry over the arrest of five legal aid lawyers.

Date: 14, 15 and 16 August 2009.
Time : 9.00 a.m.
Venue: Level 29,
Menera Tun Razak,
Jalan Raja Laut.

Everyone should be concerned since legal aid lawyers are even arrested for doing their work. Those attending are encouraged to wear black and swarm Suhakam office to send the message that we want justice.