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Burma: Prisoners forced to work on Akyab-Rangoon Highway
Prisoners from different jails in Arakan State were used as workforce on the Akyab-Rangoon highway on December 20. The highway was damaged by rains in the monsoons.Fifty of the prisoners are from Akyab and were brought out of jail on December 15, while 50 were from Kyaukpru jail brought out on December 16 and 50 from Buthidaung jail made to work on December 17, on the Akyab-Rangoon highway under Myebon Township -- pillar No.52 and 53, said a source close to jail authorities.All the prisoners are under the control of the Western Command and are kept in a temporary camp which was made by prisoners at pillar No. 52 and 53 of the Akyab-Rangoon highway.The prisoners started work on the road on December 20. They are also working in brick kilns and collecting wood for the brick field, digging rock and earth for the road, said a local in Myebon.The prisoners also will work on bridges leading to the road.

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Rice wants 'more vigour' on Myanmar

'It's simply unacceptable', said Dr Rice (above); referring to the way the junta has treated Mr Gambari. -- PHOTO: AP

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the international community on Friday to act with 'more vigour' in dealing with the junta in Myanmar, calling a UN envoy's treatment there 'unacceptable.' Rice said the mission of UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari 'needs to have more profile, it needs to have more vigour' while admitting the world's energy had dissipated on dealing with the junta's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

'It needs to be, I believe, more insistent on the junta that a special representative of the United Nations secretary general cannot be treated the way that the junta has treated Mr Gambari,' she told a press conference.

'It's simply unacceptable,' she said.

When asked what treatment Dr Rice might have been referring to, a State Department official said the junta has made it difficult for Prof Gambari to enter Myanmar and schedule meetings.

The junta has also 'not been forthcoming' on what Prof Gambari has asked them to do, the official said on condition of anonymity.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack also blasted the military regime on Friday for arresting at least six democracy activists 'for peacefully expressing their political beliefs.'

The arrests 'belie the Burmese regime's claim that it seeks a genuine and peaceful transition to democracy, and demonstrate that it is not fulfilling the expectations of the UN Security Council as expressed in the Oct 11 UN Security Council Presidential Statement,' said Mr McCormack.

The US Senate approved on on Wednesday sanctions against Myanmar's multi-million dollar gemstone industry to punish the military regime over its deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September.

The House of Representatives passed similar legislation last week, but it needs to vote on the Senate version because it was amended. The final bill would then go to US President George W. Bush for his signature.

Last week, President Bush threatened to spearhead a global campaign to step up sanctions against Myanmar if it continues to ignore calls for a democratic transition.

At least 31 people were killed and 74 went missing in the suppression in September of peaceful protests led by Buddhist monks, according to a UN report.

President Bush recently announced new sanctions against Myanmar's military, including an asset freeze on key junta figures and blacklisting of seven companies and five individuals allegedly linked to those companies and the regime.

The United States has long maintained a trade and investment ban on Myanmar. -- AFP

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Burma's struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi's role

Kyi May Kaung

The eighteenth anniversary of the “8-8-88” massacre in Rangoon is a moment to reaffirm the core principles of Burmese people's long march to democracy, says Kyi May Kaung.

(This article was first published on 8 August 2006)

Burmese people across the world, whether in the homeland or in exile, have for the last eighteen years marked today's date with particular sharpness and poignancy. 8 August 1988 was the occasion of a massacre in the capital Rangoon in which the emerging, democratic “people's power” movement of students, workers and citizens was drowned in blood.

The military regime which had ruled the country since 1962 showed that day and in the forty days of nationwide repression that followed (in which perhaps 10,000 people altogether were killed, including 3,000 on the day itself) that its determination to retain its power was absolute. This was confirmed when the ruling junta, having been forced by the strength of the people's will to concede an election in 1990, refused to recognise the overwhelming victory of the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Since the terrible events of “8-8-88”, millions of Burma's people have endured continuing repression, suffering, hunger and hardship under a pitiless dictatorship. But if they do not give in to the temptation of despair, much of the reason lies in the fortitude and constancy of Aung San Suu Kyi herself, who in surviving three periods of house arrest (of which the current one is the most severe and isolating) has proved herself an inspiration to her people.

Daw Suu (Daw = “auntie” in Burmese, a prefix of respect for a mature lady) is the daughter of independence hero Aung San and the recipient of the Nobel peace prize in 1991. Today, she will not be able to join her friends and colleagues to mark this melancholy anniversary. But in her Rangoon confinement, she must know that all Burmese who care for their country's freedom and future are connected to each other partly through the living presence of The Lady.

A Burmese life

Aung San Suu Kyi is in many ways an embodiment of Burma's (renamed “Myanmar” by the junta in 1989) modern history. Her father, General Aung San, was gunned down with his entire cabinet on 19 July 1947 at the age of 32 by a nephew of his political rival, U Saw. Among the other victims (who came to be known collectively as “the martyrs”) were friends of my parents such as the Mongpawn Sawbwa, and the Shan chieftain Sao Sam Htun.

While the Mongpawn Sawbwa survived in hospital for a few days after the assassination attempt, Aung San died on the spot. It has become part of Burmese people's national legend that when U Saw's nephew burst into the room, Aung San – sitting at the head of the long table – stood up and stretched out his palm outwards, appealing for peace and forbearance. But he was shot point blank and his body slid under the table. A student of my father who was near the secretariat that day rushed to the scene and arrived just in time to witness the bodies being pulled down the stairs, bump by bump.

This painful memory, part of our collective trauma and multiple individual traumas, has been replenished many times since, not least by the military's shootings of civilians in 1962, in 1976 and in 1988.

1988 was the great watershed event that has changed all our lives. But it was not the end to Burmese people's travails; almost two decades after the junta's crackdown, Burma's rulers are still tightening the screws.

At a “birthday party” to mark Daw Suu's 61st birthday on 19 June 2006 in Silver Spring, Maryland, Christina Moon of the US Campaign for Burma showed a photograph of the shaved head of the remains of Thet Naing Oo, a dissident beaten to death on the streets of Rangoon in full view of passers-by. There were two large gashes on the head, which had been crudely stitched together with large black stitches like a centipede's feet.

Suu Kyi was under her first period of house arrest when her National League for Democracy won the 1990 elections, and remained incarcerated until her release in 1995. Each time she was freed, she would test the limits of the junta's tolerance by campaigning throughout the country. On 30 May 2003, thugs calling themselves the Union Solidarity Development Association (Usda) waylaid Suu's party at a place near Depayin, an incident now infamously known as the Depayin massacre. Suu was then taken into “protective custody” by the regime, and held in the notorious Insein prison.

Some NLD supporters survived to tell the Depayin story. I met two who were able to make their way to the Burma-Thailand border and eventually to the United States, where they travelled the country to deliver their testimony. U Khin Zaw told me that an imposter monk, standing near a tree felled across the road, had stopped the line of minivans and cars carrying the NLD leaders at a spot outside Depayin in mid-evening. The “monk” asked that Daw Suu stop and engage in “dialogue”. When Daw Suu replied that it was getting late and they needed to continue on their journey, the attack started.

Requisitioned trucks shone their headlights on the road as the Usda goons, high on alcohol and/or drugs, beat people in the crowd. U Khin Zaw described how he heard the sound of cracking skulls and ran off in a panic. As in previous attacks of this sort, Suu's driver managed to press the accelerator and drive off – but the car was blocked further down the road and everyone arrested.

After several months in Insein, Suu was returned to house arrest after a gynaecological operation. This third incarceration, which still continues, is only the latest in a lifetime of difficulties. The death of her father when she was still an infant was followed by the drowning of her elder brother on Inya Lake near her family house (awarded by the democratic regime of U Nu to her mother, the first widow Daw Khin Kyi, in the 1950s).

In 2000, Suu lost Michael Aris - her husband, staunch supporter, and the father of her two sons, Alexander and Kim - to prostate cancer. Daw Suu has been under periodic attack by the government-controlled press of Myanmar, due to her interracial marriage and her mixed-race children. Only people who have lived in Burma, and have been exposed to such a vulgar mentality will really understand the pain such attacks must cause.

Aung San Suu Kyi refused the chance to leave Burma to see her dying husband because she could not abandon her people and their cause. Yet she has always responded to questions about the sacrifices she has made in her personal life by saying these are nothing compared to the suffering of Burma's people.

Eighteen years is a long time. But the spirit and example of Aung San Suu Kyi is a beacon of hope that Burmese people's collective agony will indeed come to an end.

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Statement by the President

Potomac - POTOMAC -- I am deeply disturbed by the report that UN Special Rapporteur Paulo Pinheiro released today in Geneva documenting his findings from his trip to Burma last month. It provides further alarming details about the Burmese authorities' crackdown on demonstrations by monks and democracy activists and the severe reprisals that continue today. He describes how the regime harassed, detained, and killed many peaceful demonstrators. The Special Rapporteur received reports, for example, that a large number of bodies were burned September 27-30 at the Ye Way Crematorium. I strongly condemn these actions and the junta's refusal to accept the need for real change in Burma. Even while Mr. Pinheiro was in Burma, the regime continued to arrest and harass monks and democracy activists. The regime has also closed down monasteries, including the Maggin Monastery in Rangoon that served as a hospice and treatment center for HIV/AIDS patients. Mr. Pinheiro’s report demonstrates why the world cannot go back to business as usual with General Than Shwe and his junta. I call on all members of the international community to condemn the atrocities detailed in Mr. Pinheiro's report in the strongest possible terms. Last month, I announced new sanctions on the leaders of the regime and their cronies. Should the regime continue to ignore calls for a true democratic transition and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, the United States is prepared to lead international efforts to place more sanctions on the regime. Laura and I will continue to stand with the Burmese people as they seek the freedom they deserve.

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Is it for Myanmar or for China?

China supplies military trucks to Burma

Myo Gyi
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

December 6, 2007 - Several military trucks are believed to have been supplied to the Burmese junta by China. They were seen arriving on the Sino-Burmese border town of Ruili this morning, a local eyewitness said.

The light weight medium FAW trucks, manufactured by Chinese owned Tongfeng Company, were seen lining up at Ruili town, a Burmese who works at the car servicing centre told Mizzima.

"The trucks arrived this morning. They are light weight and all of them are of the same design. Since the trucks were dirty, they sent it to us for car wash," the local said.

Another Burmese businessman at Kyegaung town, said the trucks, which are to be sent to the Burmese Amy as the first batch through the Muse-Kyegaung Road, are currently parked in front of the Kyegaung Customs office.

"Yes the trucks are now parked in front of the customs office. There are more than 200 trucks lined up," the businessman told Mizzima.

A source close to the Chinese authorities told Mizzima that about 400 military trucks will be sent to Burma as the first batch and more are expected to be sent later.

He also added that the Chinese authorities in early November sent six rocket carriers trucks through the Kyegaung-Muse Road.

Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Burmese military analyst based on the Sino-Burmese border said, "China has been supplying military trucks regularly. But it has been quite sometime now that they had stopped supplying. But it is again resumed supply."

"It is actually hampering China's image, because it is currently facing a lot of condemnation for supplying the Burmese junta with military hardware. But since China chose to continue supplying amidst mounting pressure, may be it wants to show that it is supporting the Burmese junta openly," added Aung Kyaw Zaw.

“People came out [to demonstrate] because the pain they are feeling is too much – they are suffering.”

Burma’s junta warned of growing anger

By Amy Kazmin in Bangkok

Published: December 6 2007 01:25 | Last updated: December 6 2007 01:25

A senior United Nations official expelled from Burma this week warned on Wednesday that a “more volatile situation” lay ahead if the country’s military regime refused to recognise that recent mass protests stemmed from common people’s anger over economic woes.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Charles Petrie, who until his expulsion on Tuesday was the most senior UN official in Rangoon, warned that without substantive reforms the Burmese junta could be forced to resort to greater repression to keep control over a restive population.

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“It’s very dangerous for the regime not to understand the grievances that people expressed on the streets,” Mr Petrie said. “People came out [to demonstrate] because the pain they are feeling is too much – they are suffering.”

The regime’s refusal to acknowledge these fundamental grievances, and continued repression, were “a pretty bad cocktail”, he said. “It creates the conditions for an even more volatile situation, which the regime will only be able to contain by increasing violence and intimidation.”

Burma’s military rulers stunned the international community last month when they abruptly announced that they were ejecting Mr Petrie. The move followed the release of a statement by the UN country team in which it said the September protests reflected widespread frustration “at the everyday struggle to meet basic needs” and called for the junta to address a “deteriorating humanitarian situation”.

The generals – who have characterised the mass protests as a CIA plot to overthrow them – accused Mr Petrie, who was the UN humanitarian co-ordinator and Development Programme representative, of “acting beyond his capacity by issuing a statement that harms [Burma’s] reputation”.

Mr Petrie, who was granted a month to leave to ensure an “orderly transition”, said the move against him was part of the regime’s broader campaign to harass its critics and browbeat the local population.

“My expulsion is part of the intimidation,” he said.

Mr Petrie’s comments came as the military toughened its stance towards its domestic and international critics, after making a few conciliatory gestures following the global outcry at their suppression of the protests.

On Monday Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, information minister, rejected calls by Ibrahim Gambari, the UN special envoy for Burma, for the regime to engage in a dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize-winning democracy advocate, on a new constitution.

In a rare press conference, the minister said the regime was moving ahead and did not need “assistance and advice from other persons”.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

Why can't We do this?

FORGIVE ME PLEASE...!

I HAVE CHOSEN UNDERGROUND WAY TO GIVE A LESSON TO MYANMAR GOVERNMENT, CHINA AND INDIA.

CHINA IS DEPENDING ON MYANMAR GAS PROJECT.

WHY CAN'T WE DESTROY THAT PROJECT?

CAN WE DO OR ASK OUR PEOPLE TO DESTROY GAS PIPE LINE OR SOMETHING BY ANY METHOD FROM NEAREST LOCATION IN WAY OF GAS PIPE LINE?

NOW IS THE BEST TIME TO DO, BECAUSE THE GAS IS NOT IN THE LINE YET.

The first monk to be put to death in Burma since the British colonial rulers hanged a monk who lead a rebellion 70 years ago

Burma: Junta Charges Monks' Leader With Treason

Monday, 3 December 2007, 9:24 am
Press Release: Terry Evans Press Release: Terry Evans

3 December

Burma: Junta Charges Monks' Leader With Treason

The leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance (ABMA) has been arrested and charged with treason for his role in the September pro-democracy demonstrations. Treason is a capital crime in Burma. If convicted and executed, 27 year-old U Gambira would be the first monk to be put to death in Burma since the British colonial rulers hanged a monk who lead a rebellion 70 years ago.

U Gambira was instrumental in getting tens of thousands of monks onto the streets in peaceful protests during September. The anti-regime demonstrations, which began over the peoples' agitation against the fuel price hike in mid-August, came to an abrupt end after a brutal crackdown by the junta.

By the end of September the monks' leader went in hiding, and in an attempt to force U Gambira out into the open the generals resorted to hostage taking by arresting several members of his family. This tactic worked and during November the peaceful protest leader was captured.

Since U Gambira's arrest his exact whereabouts remain unconfirmed officially. However reliable reports indicate that he is being kept in Cell Block 1 at Insein Prison in Rangoon. Cell Block 1 is notorious as the junta's main interrogation centre for political prisoners.

Just prior to his arrest U Gambira asked for following statement to be released:

“To Buddhists all over the world and activists and supporters of Burmese movement, please help to liberate the Burmese people from this disastrous and wicked system. To the many people of the world who are sympathetic to the suffering of the Burmese people, please help us to be free from this evil system. Good people in Burma are being killed or imprisoned, tortured, and then sent to forced labour camps. I sincerely ask the international community to do something to stop these atrocities. My chances of survival are very slim now. But I have not given up hope, and will try my best.”

ENDS

U Gambira is the pseudonym of a leader of the All-Burma Monks Alliance

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Musicians Come Together In NYC for Aung San Suu Kyi and Human Rights

Aung San Suu Kyi, a Human Rights Activist in Burma, is the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient. On December 14th, Swiss Chris, John Legends Music Director and DJ Johnny Juice, Public Enemy's Producer will make the world more aware

/24-7PressRelease/ - NEW YORK, NY, November 29, 2007 — Perhaps you can say getting the message to the masses by one of the oldest forms of communication is an every day occurrence. Not only is music going to be the conduit to bring awareness to the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi, (pronounced Aung San Sue Chee ) but the message is being relayed with the expertise of many different professional musicians, scratching, drumming, guitar and bass playing as well as singing. And on this coming December 14th, at the historic Blue Note in Manhattan, more than a dozen musicians with the help of S.W.I.S.S. (Saving With Instruments Samples and Soundz) and the Freedom Campaign will be doing just that for a cause that needs a voice. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the world's most renowned freedom fighters and advocates of nonviolence, having served as the figurehead for Burma's struggle for democracy since 1988. Joining the newly-forming National League for Democracy political party, Suu Kyi gave numerous speeches calling for freedom and democracy. The military regime responded to the uprising with brute force, shooting and otherwise killing up to 10,000 demonstrators. Since 1989, Aung San Suu Kyi has been in and out of jail for her courageous battle for freedom and democracy. She has won numerous international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament, United States Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Jawaharlal Nehru Award from India. She has called on people around the world to join the struggle for freedom in Burma, saying "Please use your liberty to promote ours." This December 14th, at the Blue Note in Manhattan, five time Grammy winner, Swiss Chris, John Legends Music Director and Drummer will be assembling his "DreamTeam1" team of musicians to play music and bring awareness to Human Rights and Aung San Suu Kyi. The DreamTeam1 will be Bonga Gaston Jean- Babtiste (master drummer from Haiti) Stanley Banks (bass for George Benson), Josh Valleau (keyboard), Ladell Mc Lin (guitar) Sun Singelton (vox), Alex Adhami (cello/ santur/ vox) Sataka Karama (Poet) Bemshi (vox). Also joining them will be award winning and Emmy nominated DJ Johnny Juice who has worked with Chuck D and Public Enemy on numerous projects, Ketsana, a young lady from Laos and a popular singer/songwriter who has charted in Asia, as well as other special guest musicians will be filling the stage for this special show that evening. The benefit is being produced by the S.W.I.S.S. organization (Saving With Instruments Samples and Soundz) and in cooperation with The Freedom Campaign. Admission will be a $10.00 donation at the door, and though not necessary, a donation of any instrument that will help with the S.W.I.S.S. organizations mission would be well appreciated. WHEN: December 14th, 2007 right before midnight WHERE: Blue Note, 131 W. 3rd St New York, NY 10012 View Map S.W.I.S.S. Mission: - Recognition of Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Motivational education through music and sound - Resolve conflicts through peaceful means with use of musical instruments - Multiple collaborations with various artists in various fields of music for multimedia performances - Educational workshops for beginner to advanced drum students in the history of African, African- American and cultures of African decent based music Director and Founder: Swiss Chris http://www.myspace.com/swisschristhemanonthedrums http://www.thefreedomcampaign.org

Swiss Chris is a five time Grammy winner and DJ Johnny Juice an Emmy nominated producer

First Step of India

India stops arms sales to junta

Amit Baruah, Hindustan Times

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New Delhi, November 26, 2007
First Published: 02:12 IST(26/11/2007)

Last Updated: 02:16 IST(26/11/2007)

India has put all sale and transfer of arms to Myanmar on hold. The decision follows the suppression of pro-democracy protests in that country, South Block officials told HT.

India believes contact with the junta is in its strategic interest, but also wants to send out a message that it’s not quite business as usual any longer.

India gave Myanmar three British-made Islander aircraft last year. In Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw in January, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said India was willing to expand military ties. “We have decided to give a favourable response (to the request for military equipment),” he said. That deal — for some Dorniers — is now frozen.

On Wednesday, PM Manmohan Singh told Myanmarese counterpart Thein Sein in Singapore the reform process must not exclude pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Can We Act Something to Singapore?

Asia-Pacific News

Burmese Buddhist temple in Singapore halts activists' activities

Nov 23, 2007, 0:07 GMT

Singapore - The Burmese Buddhist temple in Singapore has stopped activists from using the venue to stage pro-democracy activities on behalf of their homeland Myanmar, officials said Friday.

Participants clad in red T-shirts have been holding massive prayer sessions, distributing pro-democracy leaflets and using the largest such temple in Singapore as their mailing address since the ruling junta in Myanmar cracked down on peaceful protesters in September.

'The temple is just a place of worship,' The Straits Times quoted the management committee's honorary president David Lim as saying. 'Anyone can come here for prayers, but we don't want it used for political activities.'

The decision was made after Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo visited the shrine. The Myanmar community numbers 30,000 in the city- state.

'The temple should be a place of peace,' Lim said, not a domain for 'activists shouting slogans.'

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ASEAN says "SORRY PEOPLES OF BURMA" (2)

Asian leaders reject calls for Myanmar sanctions

        SINGAPORE (Thomson Financial) - Asian leaders on Wednesday again ruled out
punishing military-run Myanmar with sanctions despite its bloody crackdown on
dissent, saying their influence over the junta was negligible.
   Southeast Asian nations plus their six regional dialogue partners, at the
end of a summit here, also said punitive measures would only reinforce the
junta's isolation and would not speed up the process of democratic reforms.
   "We have not been in favor of sanctions on Myanmar -- neither any of the
ASEAN countries, nor any of the Asian countries," host Singapore Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong said at a closing press conference.
   "Our influence on Myanmar is negligible. Our trade with them is negligible,"
he said of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which met here
earlier this week before Wednesday's wider East Asia Summit talks.
   Lee said that among the 10-nation bloc, only Thailand had significant trade
with Myanmar -- in the form of natural gas imports much needed by Bangkok.
   ASEAN has come under increasing international pressure, especially from the
United States and the European Union, to rein in its errant member and punish it
for September's violence.
   Myanmar sent this week's summits into disarray when it refused to allow UN
envoy Ibrahim Gambari to brief the Asian leaders on the situation in the former
Burma -- forcing ASEAN into an embarrassing last-minute cancellation.
   But Lee described Myanmar's intransigence as "one of the growing pains and
the roadblocks which we have to deal with as a new and growing organisation."
   "It is not easy to resolve... it is something which we have confronted,
discussed and will have to take in our stride," he added.
   The East Asia Summit brings together the ASEAN bloc with Australia, India,
Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and China -- Myanmar's close ally, which Lee
said would never condone sanctions.
   "China is not going to agree. They have made their position quite clear," he
told reporters.
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88-24 with 66 abstentions

UN Committee Approves Myanmar Resolution

November 20th, 2007 @ 11:01pm
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A U.N. General Assembly committee approved a draft resolution Tuesday strongly condemning the Myanmar government's crackdown on peaceful protesters and calling on the military junta to immediately release political prisoners.

The vote in the assembly's human rights committee was 88-24 with 66 abstentions. The resolution now needs the backing of the 192-nation world body. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion.

The draft resolution calls on Myanmar's military government "to desist from further arrests and violence against peaceful protesters" and to lift "all restraints on the peaceful political activity of all persons by ... guaranteeing freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression."

It also calls on the junta to provide U.N. special adviser Ibrahim Gambari with unrestricted access to all parties _ including ethnic minority representatives, student leaders and dissident monks _ and to engage with him to achieve "effective progress towards the restoration of democracy and the protection of human rights in Myanmar."

Gambari, who visited Myanmar earlier this month, said last week he was making progress in nudging Myanmar's military junta toward meaningful dialogue with the pro-democracy opposition. But he acknowledged there were "serious concerns" about "the willingness of the government to move forward in a new direction."

Myanmar, also known as Burma, tried to block a vote on the draft resolution, proposing a motion of "no action" instead. It was defeated by a vote of 88 against to 54 in favor, with 34 abstentions.

Myanmar's U.N. Ambassador U Kyaw Tint Swe called the draft resolution, supported by the United States and many Western countries, "objectionable both on grounds of procedure as well as substance."

Procedurally, he said if it was really necessary, the issue should be dealt with by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Swe said the draft resolution's "real intention is to manipulate Myanmar's homegrown political process and to derail the seven-step political road map that Myanmar has set for itself for transition to a democratic society."

Myanmar's government has been strongly criticized for sending troops to quash peaceful protests, initially led by students and then by Buddhist monks, in late September.

At least 15 people were killed, according to information authorities provided to U.N. human rights investigator Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. Dissidents and diplomats suspect the true figure is much higher.

Thousands were arrested, though Swe said all but 91 "who have been found to have been involved in a conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism" have been released.

Swe said the draft resolution "is replete with unfounded allegations emanating from the exiles and remnants of the insurgents who are waging a systematic disinformation campaign against Myanmar, aided and funded by some of the powerful Western countries."

Calling the challenges facing Myanmar "complex and delicate," he said the U.N. should be allowed "time and space to play a catalytic role in consolidating the national reconciliation process."

The draft resolution calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in detention for 12 of the last 18 years.

Myanmar's military has ruled the country since 1962. The current junta took power in 1988 after crushing the democracy movement led by Suu Kyi. In 1990, it refused to hand over power when Suu Kyi's party won a landslide election victory.

She must be released now!!!

Arroyo Calls For Release Of Aung San Suu Kyi - AFP SINGAPORE (AFP)--Philippine President Gloria Arroyo on Wedneseday called for the immediate release of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, deploring her treatment by the junta. It was the strongest statement yet against the generals during this week's Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, which has been dominated by questions about how the bloc can rein in its errant member. "Let me be very clear. We embrace the advances of Asean but remain concerned about the pace of progress in Myanmar on the issue of human rights," Arroyo told reporters before heading home to Manila earlier than scheduled. "We particularly deplore the treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi. She must be released now," Arroyo said. Earlier this week, Myanmar scored a victory when it forced the cancellation of a briefing by UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari to 16 leaders from the 10 Asean states plus Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. Arroyo, who received a private briefing from Gambari on Tuesday, said the Philippines was "concerned that the forces of authoritarianism still move rather slowly towards democracy in Myanmar." "We must be active in advocating peaceful reforms in that nation. It is good for Myanmar, for Asean and the world," she said. Arroyo reiterated that Filipino lawmakers might refuse to ratify Asean's first-ever charter until Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 12 of the past 18 years, was freed. (END) Dow Jones Newswires 11-21-070441ET Copyright (c) 2007 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

ASEAN says "SORRY PEOPLES OF BURMA"

Associated Press
ASEAN Rejects US Call to Suspend Myanmar
By VIJAY JOSHI 11.18.07, 5:14 AM ET

SINGAPORE -

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Sunday rejected the U.S. Senate's call to suspend Myanmar, saying the military-ruled country is like a troubled child who must be disciplined with dialogue.

"Myanmar is part of our family and it is the principle involved," ASEAN secretary-general Ong Keng Yong told reporters, a day before an annual summit of Southeast Asian leaders convenes in Singapore. "It's like you as a parent, if you have a troubled child, do you say, `... go out of the house, I don't want to talk to you?'"

The U.S. Senate on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution urging ASEAN to consider "appropriate disciplinary measures, including suspension, until such time as the government of Burma has demonstrated improved respect for and commitment to human rights. " Myanmar is also known as Burma.

ASEAN's Senate snub is not unexpected since it has said expelling Myanmar is not an option. Still, Myanmar - under military rule since 1962 - has become a major embarrassment for the association, which is under intense pressure from trading partners U.S. and Europe to bring about change in that country.

The pressure intensified after the junta's troops and police opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in late September, killing at least 15 people.

A round of subsequent diplomacy by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari led to some apparent concessions by the military rulers, including an indication that they will restart a reconciliation process with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest.

"Let us build on that," said Ong. "The challenge for ASEAN is to prevent slippage of what Gambari has achieved," he said. "Our approach is not to take such a confrontational, drastic action, especially when it doesn't yield good results."

The Senate resolution, introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., also urged the 10-nation ASEAN to take "substantial steps to ensure peaceful transition to democracy in Burma."

Washington said U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab will underscore U.S. concerns when she meets with ASEAN economic ministers Monday.

ASEAN has often cited its policy of noninterference in one another's affairs for its inability to do much about Myanmar, though that stand has become increasingly diluted with Southeast Asian leaders expressing frustration with the junta publicly.

It is likely ASEAN leaders will speak their minds when they meet privately with Myanmar Prime Minister Lt. Gen. Thein Sein during a closed-door dinner Monday night. Appointed in October, Thein Sein recently paid diplomatic visits to neighboring Vietnam and Laos.

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Keep Pressure

France: EU to step up pressure on Burma

The Ottawa Citizen

Published: Saturday, November 17, 2007

France and its European Union partners will follow Canada's lead and step up economic sanctions against Burma over the human rights violations over the last few weeks by the ruling military junta. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier praised the decision yesterday after meeting with his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner. Mr. Bernier pointed out that Canada has implemented "the most severe economic sanctions in the world" against Burma, also known as Myanmar, and expressed his pleasure that the France will join in acting against the regime. Canada announced a ban on all exports to and from Burma, and on new Canadian investment there.

There will be a one-year period for ASEAN governments to ratify the document.

East Asia Summit in S'pore may issue Myanmar statement
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 16 November hrs

SINGAPORE: Leaders meeting at the East Asian Summit (EAS) in Singapore may issue a statement to support UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari's role in Myanmar.

This is according to Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo, who met the local media ahead of the summit.

Mr Yeo said the statement would also support the process of national reconciliation and call on the Myanmar government to give a deadline to achieve democracy.

The minister believes that this way, there would be fewer chances for Myanmar to backslide after the end of the ASEAN and East Asia Summits.

Mr Yeo said there is reason to be optimistic about the future of ASEAN.

But he acknowledged that there are problems, including how ASEAN is handling the Myanmar issue.

The minister, however, pointed out that good progress has been made so far through the efforts of Dr Gambari.

Mr Yeo said: "Off the Summit, countries will gear up for their positions but if they don't maintain that pressure for forward movement, then there could be backsliding, which would be bad for the people of Myanmar, it would be bad for us in Southeast Asia. So, if we have a good solid position in the EAS, then that enhances our position for the future."

Mr Yeo also gave his assessment on his recent visits and discussions with the foreign ministers of China, Japan and India.

He said: "Each had its own perspective...But if we coordinate and act together, I believe we can play a helpful role in the process of national reconciliation in Myanmar. This was put in a very forthright way by (India's) Minister Pranab Mukerjee. He said it can't just be India and China, it has to be India-China and ASEAN together, and I believe there is a common understanding to make that effort."

Turning to the ASEAN Charter, Mr Yeo said that one subject which came up for much discussion was the setting up of a human rights body as details were still being worked out.

"I don't quite know what will be the positions we will eventually agree upon, given the positions of the newer member states. I'm not sure if we will have teeth but it will certainly have a tongue. It will certainly have moral influence," he said.

Once the ASEAN Charter is signed by the leaders at the Summit in Singapore, there will be a one-year period for ASEAN governments to ratify the document.

Singapore hopes that the Charter's provisions will become effective in time for the leaders to meet for the Bangkok Summit.

Minister Yeo believes that as ASEAN internalises its values and aspirations, the younger generation will feel more committed to ASEAN and its goals. - CNA/ir

You are invited

Good Job ! We respect you... Korea's Former President

15/11/2007 DJ to Call for ‘Myanmar Democratization’

By Kim Yon-se Staff Reporter The Kim Dae-jung Peace Center will host an event, dubbed the ``Evening for the Democratization of Burma,'' next month to support the peace movement in Myanmar. To commemorate the seventh anniversary of former President Kim's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, the event will be held at the 63 Building in Yeouido, Seoul, Dec. 4. A Kim Dae-jung Peace Center official said the meeting is aimed at denouncing the armed repression of the people's movement for democratization last September and giving aid to Myanmar's people. ``About 600 dignitaries from various walks of life will attend and all admission fees will be sent to pro-democracy leaders in Myanmar,'' the official said. Among the participants will be Nobel Peace Laureate Kim; Harn Yawnghwe, director of the Brussels-based Euro-Burma Office; and Bertil Lintner, a Swedish journalist and author of several books on the Southeast Asian country. Kim and the participants are expected to reiterate their call for an early democratization of Myanmar. They plan to express deep anxiety over the worsening situation in the country during the event. Kim has urged Myanmar's government to guarantee the free political activities of dissidents, including Aung San Suu Kyi whose house arrest was lengthened in 2005. The former president also called on military leaders in Yangon to allow free entry and activities of United Nations representatives and other international NGOs, and to take appropriate measures so that humanitarian assistance from abroad can safely reach their suffering people. During his five-year presidential term from 1998 as well as during his time as an opposition leader in the 1980s and 1990s, Kim sent letters to the leaders of Myanmar and met with them in person to call for democratization, and to ensure the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratic advocates. The Kim Dae-jung Peace Center stressed that the international community should make Myanmar's government take appropriate measures to give hope and relief to all people upholding human rights and democracy there. kys@koreatimes.co.kr

Rambo's Words

First look: 'Rambo' is on a mission in Burma

By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY

Rambo has become a nihilist.

Icon returns: Sylvester Stallone on location in Thailand.

Sylvester Stallone's Green Beret, who started as a tragic representation of Vietnam veteran neglect in the original film and morphed into a superhero soldier by the third, is back for a fourth outing.

This one plunges John Rambo into the gun sights of the brutal military dictatorship of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma, where in real life the ruling junta recently received international condemnation for its violent suppression of a pro-democracy uprising led by Buddhist monks.

The movie's story, which borrows from tales of real-life atrocities but is otherwise fictional, involves Rambo reluctantly helping missionaries traverse the wilderness of the Salween River on their way to deliver supplies to camps of war-ravaged refugees.

Rambo has spent the past two decades living in the region as a hermit, one who has shed patriotism, lost his faith and given up on humanity.

"He realizes his entire existence has been for naught," Stallone says. "Peace is an accident, war is natural. Old men start it, young men fight it, everybody in the middle dies, and nobody tells the truth. He says, 'You think God's going to make it all go away? What has he done and changed in the world? He has done nothing. We are an aggressive animal and will never be at peace.' That's how he feels."

When he encounters the human-rights workers, they "somehow touch the last remaining nerve in Rambo's body," Stallone says.

The movie is titled simply Rambo, without any sequel number, similar to Stallone's recent Rocky Balboa, the sixth film in that franchise, which was praised by critics and fans for restoring integrity to the iconic underdog boxer.

Similarly, this fourth Rambo seeks to rehabilitate the tortured soldier's tale that even Stallone acknowledges strayed too far into fantasy when Rambo III came out in 1988.

Stallone, 61, says he let fame get to his head with some of those previous sequels and didn't maintain the heart that made the originals iconic.

"When you're a kind of nondescript, unknown, inconsequential actor and all of a sudden you're famous, it's very easy to lose touch there," Stallone says.

"You keep pushing the envelope, but there is a limit, and the audience retreats."

U.N. human rights investigator

Nov 15, 5:09 AM EST

UN Investigator Visits Myanmar Prison

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A U.N. human rights investigator visited Myanmar's notorious Insein Prison on Thursday, a day after the ruling junta defied global calls to halt its crackdown by arresting three more anti-government activists.

Paulo Sergio Pinheiro was sent by the U.N. to investigate allegations of widespread abuse during the junta's bloody September crackdown on pro-democracy protests. His five-day mission, which ends Thursday, was aimed at determining the numbers of people detained and killed by the regime.

The military government has said 10 people were killed when troops opened fire on crowds of peaceful protesters in late September. Diplomats and dissidents, however, say the death toll was much higher.

The government has acknowledged detaining almost 3,000 people but says it has released most of them. Many prominent political activists, however, remain in custody. Pinheiro said he was determined to gain access to prisons and other sites to assess allegations of abuse.

Reporters who followed Pinheiro's convoy Thursday saw him enter the Insein Prison compound but could not accompany him further to see if he was given access to prisoners.

The prison, which is in Yangon, has held numerous political prisoners over the years, and many former inmates describe torture, abysmal conditions and long stretches in solitary confinement.

Pinheiro already visited the prison Monday for about two hours, but spoke only to officials.

But Pinheiro told diplomats Wednesday afternoon that the junta had given him assurances he could interview detainees at the prison before leaving, according to one of the diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing protocol.

Pinheiro's trip has otherwise been dominated by meetings with junta officials. He has been given access to several detention centers in Yangon, but was not allowed to meet any prisoners.

Despite worldwide criticism, the junta continued its crackdown on suspected protesters during Pinheiro's visit.

The latest to be nabbed were three people handing out anti-regime pamphlets at a fruit and vegetable market in Yangon on Wednesday, witnesses said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals from the government.

The incident followed earlier arrests of two prominent dissidents.

Su Su Nway, a prominent female activist who has been on the run for more than two months, was arrested Tuesday in Yangon as she tried to place a leaflet near a hotel where Pinheiro was staying, exiled Myanmar dissidents in Thailand said.

U Gambira, a Buddhist monk who helped spearhead the pro-democracy demonstrations in Yangon, was arrested several days ago, said Stanley Aung of the Thailand-based dissident group National League for Democracy-Liberated Area.

Monks inspired and led the movement until it was brutally crushed in September. The authorities began their crackdown by raiding several monasteries in Yangon in the middle of the night and hauling monks away.

"The toughest sanctions in the world"

Canada imposes 'toughest sanctions' against Burma

Peter Goodspeed, National Post

Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Advocating a new "international realism" in Canadian foreign policy, Maxime Bernier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced sweeping new sanctions against Burma this morning."

The repression in Burma has grown worse in the past weeks and months," Mr. Bernier said. "people are being arrested, people are being tortured and people are being killed. Peaceful demonstrations by unarmed Buddhist monks were met with bullets."

He condemned Burma's ruling military junta for fostering a record of destruction, forced labour, systematic rape, the use of child soldiers, illegal drug trafficking, and for failing to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

"Each of these factors contravenes what our foreign policy stands for," he said. "Each is rejected by governments of countries we share our values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Each is an affront to the United Nations Charter."

"The question is simple," he declared. "What can we Canadians do? What can we do as Canadians to force change?"

His answer was to announce what he described as "the toughest sanctions in the world" against Burma.

Canada will immediately ban all exports to and from Burma with the exception of humanitarian aid. It will freeze assets in Canada of Burmese nationals connected with the government. It will prohibit Canadian financial services to and from Burma and it will prohibit the export of any technical data to Burma.

There will be a ban on all new investment in Burma by Canadians and Canadian-registered ships and aircraft will be prohibited from docking or landing in Burma. Burmese shipping and aircraft will not be allowed to enter Canada.

"We know we are getting out ahead of other countries," Mr. Bernier told a breakfast meeting of Bay Street financiers at the Economic Club of Toronto. "But Canada has done so before, and we have been proven right."

He praised past Canadian governments for using sanctions to fight apartheid in South Africa and for playing a leadership role in Sudan and for Canada's "noble and necessary" sacrifice in Afghanistan.

"In every case, Canadian values of freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law are being promoted," he said.

"A strong foreign policy is one that is anchored in strong values -- and in a clear-eyed assessment of our interests," he added. "In Burma there is no more room for compromise with this odious regime."

pgoodspeed@nationalpost.com

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

A Rescuer for the U.N. -- and Burma

By Fred Hiatt

Monday, November 12, 2007; Page A21

Last Thursday, U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari looked sure to be slinking out of Burma in humiliating failure. The secretive general who runs that Southeast Asian nation had kept Gambari cooling his heels for six days, finally refusing to talk to him. Any semblance of a U.N.-sponsored diplomatic process seemed about to sputter to an undignified close.

Then Gambari, and the diplomatic process, too, found an unlikely rescuer: Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the democratic forces in Burma and daughter of Burma's independence hero. Having been escorted under police guard to a meeting with Gambari from the house arrest where she has spent the past 4 1/2 years -- and most of the past two decades -- she gave Gambari a statement to read on her behalf once he reached Singapore.

The statement validated his efforts and expressed something between hope and confidence that a dialogue between her and the dictatorship might ensue. Suddenly it seemed possible that the peaceful uprising of the people and the monks, which the junta brutally sought to crush in September, might yet lead to a negotiated political process for long-suffering Burma and its 50 million people.

How did the weakest actor in this drama -- one who has been almost entirely cut off from the world, from her supporters, even from her family -- manage to become its animating force? Why did she choose to throw Gambari and the faltering U.N. process a lifeline? And how might she expect the world to respond?

We have to guess at some answers because the junta is too afraid of Aung San Suu Kyi's popularity and legitimacy to allow her to speak freely. In 1990 the National League for Democracy, which she heads, won a landslide victory in national elections, but the junta never honored the results. In May 2003, the regime nearly killed her when a mob of government-sponsored thugs attacked her and her supporters in the town of Depayin. The statement read by Gambari is the first public expression the regime has allowed her since then.

Aung San Suu Kyi is often compared to Nelson Mandela, and not only because they share an otherworldly forbearance and are both recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Like Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is savvy as well as saintly; she is playing for results. So her lifeline to Gambari probably indicates that she believes there is at least a chance the regime will enter into serious negotiations this time around.

Why might that be true, given how often the generals have played at dialogue only long enough to allow international attention to drift away? Because after the bloody crackdown on revered monks, even the generals may understand that they crossed a line that the majority of Burmese will not forgive. Just Friday, as Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed to meet with her advisers for the first time in years, it was revealed that the regime was frantically dishing out promotions and raises to riot police officers while also reshuffling top military ranks. That could be a response to discontent in the ranks. And yesterday a U.N. human rights investigator was allowed into the country for the first time in four years.

But a close reading of Aung San Suu Kyi's note shows that she is hardly naive or sanguine about success. She stressed her willingness to cooperate but said that a dialogue must be "meaningful and timebound" -- it can't stretch on forever.

That is where the outside world must come in. U.N. officials are busy congratulating themselves and preparing for more visits, while other countries happily name new envoys and core groups and discussion panels. But what's needed is pressure, not celebration or more talk. The U.N. Security Council should implement an arms embargo. The Bush administration, which announced targeted banking sanctions against top officials and tycoons, needs to accelerate their implementation, and the European Union has to join in.

These are things Aung San Suu Kyi is not free to say, negotiating as she is from isolation and confinement. But having saved the U.N.'s bacon, the least she is owed is some tangible support to strengthen her position -- and the chances that dialogue might succeed.

For Mother.....

One Question with Bush

Bush denies double standard for dictators in Burma, Pakistan

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At a recent joint press conference with President Bush and French President Sarkozy, a reporter queries Bush on the disparity between actions taken with the Myanmar junta and those in response to Pakistan's president-turned-dictator Musharraf in their recent hostilities against democratic activity within their borders.

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REPORTER: Mr. President, you came down so hard on Burma and other nations for their crackdowns on pro-democracy demonstrators, yet you seem to be giving Musharraf a pass. So, the question is: Why are you going so soft on Musharraf? Is there a double-standard?

BUSH: I spoke to President Musharraf right before I came over here to visit President Sarkozy, and, uh, my message was that we believe strongly--in elections, and you ought to have elections soon. And you need to take off your uniform.

You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time.

So I had a very frank discussion with him. Look: Our objective is the same in Burma as it is in Pakistan, and that is to promote democracy. There is a difference, however: Pakistan has been on the path to democracy. Burma hadn't been on the path to democracy, and it requires different tactics to achieve the common objective. And, uh, as I told you, I just spoke to President Musharraf before I came here and my message was very plain, very easy to understand, and that is: "The United States wants you to have the elections as scheduled, and take your uniform off."

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The Associated Press report is available HERE.

ALSO SEE -- CNN: 'The price for backing dictators' may be to box America in

The following video is from CBS.com, broadcast on November 7, 2007.

My Opinion and Suggestion (2)

ကြၽန္ေတာ္ ျမန္မာလို လက္ကြက္ မ႐ုိက္တတ္လို့ ျမန္မာလို post မတင္ျဖစ္ပါ။ ဒီတစ္ခါေတာ့ ႄကိဳးစားျပီး ႐ိုက္တင္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ Blogger ေတြဟာ ကိုယ္က်ိဳးအတြက္ ဘာမွ မေမၽႇာ္လင့္ၾကဘူး ဆုိတာကို ပထမဆံုး ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ေမးၾကည္႔ပါ သူငယ္ခ်င္း Blogger ေတြ႐ွိရင္, ကိုယ့္ Blog ကိုလာၿပီး Comments ေတြ စာေတြ ေရးေပးထားခဲ့ရင္အရမ္းေပ်ာ္ၾကတဲ့ Blogger ေတြပါ။ ကိုယ့္ရဲ့ Generations ေတြေခတ္မွာ ကိုယ္တို႔လို မခံစားရဖို႔အေရး ၊ တတ္နိုင္တဲ့ဘက္က လူထုႀကီးကို သတင္းေတြ ရေအာင္ အားကိုးတႀကီးနဲ႔ တင္ျပေပးေနတဲ့ Bloggers ေတြပါ။ အခုလည္း ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ့ အျမင္နႇင့္ အႀကံေလးေတြကို မၽွေဝခ်င္ပါတယ္.....သေဘာတူရင္ သတင္းေလးကို ကူညီျဖန္႔ေပးၾကပါ... For Our Generations ပါ။

ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ့ October မွာတင္ထားတဲ့ My Opinion and Suggestion ကိုဖတ္ထားတဲ့သူေတြ ပိုၿပီးနားလည္မွာပါ။

အခုတစ္ေလာ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနတဲ့ Myanmar အေျခအေန၊ Gambari ေအေျခအေန ေတြကို လူတိုင္း သိၿပီးသားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ့ ပထမ My Opinion and Suggestion မွာတင္ထားသလိုပါပဲ... သူတို႔ရဲ့ ရွက္စရာေကာင္းတဲ့ နိုင္ငံေတာ္လြဲွေပးေရး အလုပ္ကို ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ လုပ္မွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔လဲဆိုေတာ့ စရင္း႐ွင္တမ္း လုပ္မရေတာ့လို႔ပါ။ သူတို႔မွာ နည္းလမ္းေတြ႐ိွပါေသးတယ္... ဒါေပမဲ့ အေကာင္ဆံုးနည္းလမ္းကို သူတို႔ေ႐ြးေနပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ရဲ့မ်ိဳးဆက္ေတြအတြက္ပါ။

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ကိုလည္း မလြွဲနိုင္၊ သူ႕လက္ေအာက္လူကိုလည္း မလြွဲနိုင္၊ သူ႕မွာလြွဲစရာ ဆိုလို႔ အျပင္လူပဲ က်န္ပါေတာ့တယ္။ သူတို႔ကေခါ ္ေနပါတယ္... ဘယ္သူေကာက္ယူမလဲလို႔..... UN, US, France and China. ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔က ဘယ္သူ႔ကိုေရြးမလဲ?

Why including China? .... China ဟာ သူရင္းနွီးထားတာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးပါ။ တစ္ျခားသူေတြ ေကာက္ယူတဲ့ေန႔ေရာက္႐င္ သူလက္ပိုက္မၾကည့္ရဲပါဘူး။ ကၽြန္တာ္တို႔ကေကာ China ကို လက္ခံနိုင္မလား?

အေျဖကရွင္းေနပါတယ္.... ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔က ေရြးရမွာပါ။ UN ရဲ့ Troop ဟာ အဆင္သင့္ပါ။ Mrs Rice က Oct 10 ကေန စီစဥ္ၿပီးသားပါ။ သတင္းကို ဂ႐ုတစိုက္ နားေထာင္ေနတဲ့သူေတြကေတာ့ သိၿပီးသားျဖစ္မွပါ။ France ကလည္း သိတဲ့အတိုင္းပါပဲ... ေကာက္စားခ်င္နပါတယ္။ ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ သံုးရက္က USA and China က defence အရ Hotline မွာ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္တစ္ခုကို လုပ္လိုက္ၾကပါေသးတယ္။ TODAY'S ZAMAN မွာ ၾကည့္လို႔ရပါတယ္...

ကဲ..... ဘယ္သူ႕ကိုေရြးမလဲ ဆိုတာကေတာ့ ျပည္သူျပည္သားေတြရဲ့ သေဘာာထားပါ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အေနနဲ႔ေတာ့ China ကလြွဲရင္ ဘယ္သူပဲလာလာ ဒီလူယုတ္မာႀကီးေအာက္က အျမန္ဆံုးနည္းနဲ႔ လြွတ္ခ်င္ေနသူပါ... အခုဖတ္ေနတဲ့သူလည္း ထပ္တူျဖစ့္ခဲ့လ်ွင္ အႀကံေလး ေပးပါရေစ.....

Online က ခ်စ္ကိုႀကီးေတြ Troops ေခါ ္ဖို႔ ၿကိုးစားၾကပါ.....

ျပည္တြင္းက လူထုႀကီးကို Troops လာရင္ welcome လုပ္ဖို႔၊ လမ္ေၾကာင္းျပေပးၾကဖို႔ ေျပာေပးၾကပါ.....

ကၽြန္ေတာ့အကိုႀကီးတစ္ဦးရဲ့အႀကံကေတာ့ - အခုေလာေလာဆယ္မွာ ျမန္မာျပည္က လဘၠက္ရည္ဆိုင္ေတြမွာ သတင္းစာအတြင္းသတင္းဖတ္ရင္ (ဖတ္ျဖစ့္ခဲ့ၾကရင္) မၽွက္နွာဖံုးစာရြက္ကို ေဇာက္ထိုးလုပ္ၿပီးမွ ဖတ္ၾကပါရန္..... ေျပာေပးၾကပါ..... (သတင္းေတာ္လွန္ေရး လမ္းစဥ္ တစ္ခုပါ.....)

မေမ့ၾကပါနွင့္ "To bring the democratically ruled country under its rule, by force if necessary".


Troops လာရင္ ျပည္သူေတြ အရင္နာမယ္ဆိုတာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္သိပါတယ္... ဒါေပမဲ့ ကြန္ေတာ္တို႔ လုပ္ေနတာေတြဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔အတြက္မဟုတ္ပါ..... ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို့ရဲ့ Generation(s) ေတြအတြက္ပါ..... နားလည္ေပးၾကပါ.....

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Please see this until finish, and collect your tears.

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Religion and Revolution

Thierry Falise, a photojournalist based in Bangkok, was in Rangoon when the nine-day September 2007 uprising began. He documented the uprising in a photographic diary, ranging from the early ebullient optimism to the final, bloody days of shootings, beatings and arrests.

I feel Cry...by seeing this...

we should send this to Ban Ki-Moon. Somebody can help?

They are calling for TROOPS!, Why don't understand?

Myanmar rejects talks with 'big power bullies'

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• Myanmar rejects talks, refusing to talk with what it calls "big power bullies"
  
• U.N. Secretary-General concerned at "lack of progress" in U.N. mission
  
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The military junta has rejected proposed three-party talks that would have included pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, saying it refuses to bow to "big power bullies."

U.N. diplomat Ibrahim Gambari is likely to leave Myanmar without having met the junta's chief.

It also seemed likely that U.N. diplomat Ibrahim Gambari would leave Myanmar Thursday without having met with the country's most powerful figure -- junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe.

Seeking political reform and reconciliation between the ruling military and pro-democracy forces, Gambari had proposed a meeting among Suu Kyi, a regime representative and himself.

Minister of Information Brig. Gen. Kyaw Hsan, quoted in the state-run New Light of Myanmar, said Suu Kyi had yet to respond to the government's request that she refrain from calling for international sanctions against Myanmar -- earlier set as a condition for a dialogue between her and the government.

In what observers said was an angry lecture, Kyaw San said: "I would like you to know that Myanmar is a small nation and if a big power bullies her ... we will have no other way but to face this and endure."

Gambari was dispatched to Myanmar, also known as Burma, after the military stamped out pro-democracy demonstrations in late September by firing on the protesters. Authorities said 10 people were killed, but diplomats and dissidents said the death toll was much higher. Thousands of people were detained.

During that visit, he was able to meet separately with both Nobel Prize winner Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest, and Than Shwe.

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But Kyaw Hsan told Gambari Tuesday that the envoy's earlier visit to Myanmar "did not bear fruit as we had expected," and was followed by sanctions from the United States, Australia and the European Union as well as condemnation from the U.N. Security Council.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern later Tuesday at the "lack of progress" in Gambari's latest mission.

Ban said he had instructed Gambari to get talks going between Suu Kyi and Myanmar's leadership, seek the release of all detained monks, students and other demonstrators, and press the government to "take necessary democratic measures."

In Washington, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the U.S. wanted Gambari to be allowed to "convey his message directly to all the parties he wishes to see" so he could tell Myanmar's leaders of "the need for them to change their policies."

Suu Kyi was treated for a minor ailment Friday and Saturday at her home by her personal physician, said a person familiar with her condition who asked not to be quoted by name because news about her is a sensitive topic.

Rumors had swept Yangon that Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, was in ill health. But a spokesman for her National League for Democracy party, Myint Thein, said that "from looking at her physical condition it can be assumed it is not very serious."

Speaking to the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based opposition radio station, the spokesman blamed the problem on a lack of regular visits by her doctor. The junta allows virtually no access to Suu Kyi.

Complicating Gambari's visit is a rift between the regime and the world body. On Friday, the day before Gambari's arrival, the junta announced it would expel the top U.N. official in the country, resident coordinator Charles Petrie.

It accused Petrie of going beyond his duties by issuing a statement criticizing the generals' failure to meet the economic and humanitarian needs of the people, and by saying this was the cause of September's protests.

However, the U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, announced Tuesday that he had been invited for a visit next week by the country's military authorities.

Pinheiro, who has been barred from visiting since 2003, said in a statement that he welcomed the invitation to make a five-day visit beginning Sunday.