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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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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.

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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

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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.

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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.....

Thanks By,
Suggestion

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'

• Story Highlights
• 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
  
• Wants talks between between Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's leadership
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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.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Fine!!!

'She is okay'


November 06 2007 at 02:19PM

Rumours that Suu Kyi had fallen ill swirled around Yangon on Tuesday, but a spokesperson for her National League for Democracy (NLD) said the 62-year-old Nobel laureate was fine.

"She is okay," party spokesperson Nyan Win said.

A source at Asia Tawwin Hospital said Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 of the last 18 years in detention, had a minor operation to remove an ingrown finger nail and was returned to her lakeside home, where she is under house arrest.

Among those who met Gambari on Tuesday were General Aung Kyi, named the junta's go-between with Suu Kyi last month when he met her for 75 minutes.

It was Gambari's second meeting with Aung Kyi, but there was no word from the United Nations on the outcome of that or other talks.

A UN statement said human rights envoy Sergio Paulo Pinheiro would visit Myanmar from Nov. 11 to 15, the first time he has received a visa in four years.

JEG's Urgent Project for All Burmese and Supporters

Motivation Project Urgent

A very simple task but it has to be split up by times... let's say we send Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a "Thinking of You" card or just a poem this Nov'07, and another one early December'07 to let her know she is in our minds, hearts and still being remembered by everybody.

Because of DASSK in-house situation, all deliveries to her go under censorship therefore, we must remember;

• DONOT mention the world, or the length of time she's been under arrest, nor the miracles everybody is expecting. If you do not know what to say, find an inspirational quote to suit, or just simply ask me.
  
  
• We are to be very polite, simple and short in our "very Loving" messages to her. We DONOT feel pity but love, only love for her.
  
  
• In case of poems, same as above, try to fit it in 1 page if possible that way the translator does not suffer and approves delivery quickly.
  
  
• Any messages that do not pass censorship could be returned to sender or destroyed by censorship (I think the later).
  

Due to the Junta "censorship":

1. Use stamps, if 2 and 3 apply to you then, post from a different area from your location.
   
   
2. It is your choice to indicate your proper name or just sign it as a fan of her.
   
   
3. It is your choice to indicate your forwarding address, although this silent action tends to request a response. Your Country should be sufficient. eg...
   
   JEG
   
   Sydney
   Australia
   
   
   
4. Please do not expect a response from her, as it is impossible due to her situation, her age and the bulk of mail she will be receiving. (If you address it as above, a miracle might return your letter... LOL)
   

If the idea is not good.... well... uhumm uhuuum LOL

Any other suggestions? I'm all ears... LOL... I thought in a book but that could be next year... let's wait to see what develops... She will be so busy reading so many wishes...

A big hug to all...

the add is

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
54, University Avenue Road,
Yangon - Myanmar
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Thanks to Jeg.
And
Make sure "Just LOVE" ... Millions of LOVEs

HELLO ...... Any Body got Fastest Shipment?

Artists to send new piano to Suu Kyi

Sunday Nov 4 19:39 AEDT

A group of British women from the world of arts and entertainment, including singer Annie Lennox, is preparing to ship a piano to detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.

Lennox has joined stars including actress Maureen Lipman, film producer Norma Heyman and arts fundraiser Joyce Hytner in organising the purchase of a new piano for Suu Kyi.

The Sunday Times reported Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest, is an accomplished player but her piano has broken, partly through wear and tear.

"It just seemed a good and nice idea," Lipman, who has been a long-time supporter of Suu Kyi and has driven the plan to provide her with a new piano, told the newspaper.

Suu Kyi's old piano is believed to have been a source of great comfort to her during her years of house arrest.

She would often play her piano so supporters standing outside her house would still know she was alive.

While the money for the new piano has been raised, organisers are still trying to decide the best way to deliver it.

One option is to fly the new instrument to India or Singapore and then transfer it by ship to Rangoon.

©AAP 2007

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CRPP(F-U Lwin,U AyeThaAung,U AungShwe,U ThanTun,U TinOo)(B-U HlaPe,U SoeMyint,U LunTin,U Nyunt Wei,Dassk)	In front of Dassk's house(6-may-2002)	Dassk at Paunglaung Dam Project (29-6-2002)	At Irrawaddy river (Magwe) Bridge Project (23-6-2002)
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dassk studying at St Hugh's College , Oxford	dassk & daw than aye(Bi Latt Pyan Than).jpg(at Algeria)	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru & Daw Khin Kyi	Dassk
General Aung San 's family.	Bogyoke aung san's family with his mother Daw Su(1947-April)	Wedding of general Aung san.(1942-September)	Her father , mother & brother.
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oway magazine commetee.(1936)	Deligation of burma to Japan (1943)	Bogyoke Aung San in London-1947.	Bo Letyar ,Bo Setkya & Bo Teza(1941)
Bogyoke aung san1946-Dec Kachin	dassk in Kachin State (1989)	Dassk(1989)	Dassk
dassk in Bhutan (1971)	At home in Oxford-1983.	Dassk with her sons(1992-may)	Wedding day-1-jan-1972.
Wedding day (1- jan-1972)	Michael Aris &Dassk In Burma (1973)	Dassk & her son Kim in Oxford	Dassk in New Delhi-1965
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Sayama Moe Cho Thinn ,Saya Tin Moe & Dassk	dassk (followed by the tatmadaw-1989)	dassk	Daw Khin Kyi & Dassk at New delhi
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Dassk with Thamanya Hsayadaw.	dassk	dassk	Dassk
1989-Thingyan.	dassk	dassk at Meik Hti Lar	Dassk & hor son Alexander(Myint San Aung) 1973-In Nepal
dassk	Dassk	dassk (19-july-1986)	On The Bridge(28-7-1998)
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Al Neuharth Free Sprit of The year Award(6-Feb-2003)USA-Freedom Forum	dassk	dassk	dassk
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TIME-1990-Jun-11.	Time-1991-Oct-28.	TIME-1994-Feb-28.	Asiaweek1989-July-21.
TIME-1995-Dec-18.	Dassk with US Congressman Mr Bill Richardson.	Dassk with Mr Bill Richardson.(14-Feb-1994)	U Kyi Maung & Dassk.
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Dassk at her post-release press conference(6-May-2002).bmp	Dassk	Dassk	Dassk's 58th birthday-BKK(19-jun-2003)
Dassk	Dassk	The Irrawaddy-Vol 11-No 5 (2003-Jun)	Dassk
Dassk & Head of state Senior General Than Shwe(20-Sept-1994)	Head of State Senior Than Shwe & DASSK (20-sept-1994)	SPDC Members & NLD CEC Members-1995	SPDC Members & NLD CEC Members-1995 from(5-7-2003-New light Of Myanmar)
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Al-with-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.jpg	Free Suu.jpg	nr630605aungsan.jpg	kachin.jpg
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