Myanmar : Military Regime, Junta, Aung San Suu Kyi

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To share our genuine feelings about Burma and its path to freedom.
burmese bloggers w/o borders ................... Give to Burma

*a person blog about what's happening in Burma aka Myanmar. land of the thousand temples. plus that one that's perched on the rock.



was there personally some time back. yup, the place has a heavy feel of military. feels very stifled. mobile phone? what mobile phone. had to bring a sat phone for comms. internet access were heavily controlled. does not surprise when it came to this.

btw, Singapore have a very neat looking embassy building there.







and the clip whereby the Jap was shot pointblank.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUUQi1ooEAs

Death list by junta violent crush (from AAPP)

Name: Ko Soe Than (b) Si Tone
Address: 716 , 26 Street , No 5 Quarter, S\Okkalapa
Age: 41 years old
Date of death: 27 September, 2007

Name: Kenji Nagai
Adress: Nakano Ward, Tokyo, Japan
Age: 50
Date of death: 27 September, 2007
Remark:He is a photo journalist of freeland

Name: Myo Min Htun
Address: 287 , 24 Street , No. 7 Quarter, S\Okkalapa
Age: 22
Father: U Than Htun
Date of death: 27 September, 2007

Name: Zayar Naing
Address: Mahor Video rent shop , Thura 2 Street, No. 9
Quarter, S\Okkalapa
Age: 18
Date of death: 27 September, 2007
Remark: He is a tenth student of Basic Education High
School- BEHS (2) School , S\Okkalapa, Rangoon

Name: Pho Zaw
Address: Dan Ohn Set, Marga street, N/Oakkalapa,
Rangoon
Age: 40
Date of death: 29 September 2007
Name: Sunny (alais) kalamalay
Address: Bo Htun Zan Quarter, Daw Bon, Rangoon
Age: 18
Date of death: 29 September 2007




 

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thisislondon.co.uk

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle
01.10.07

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Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.

A Swedish diplomat who visited Burma during the protests said last night that in her opinion the revolution has failed.

Liselotte Agerlid, who is now in Thailand, said that the Burmese people now face possibly decades of repression. "The Burma revolt is over," she added.

"The military regime won and a new generation has been violently repressed and violently denied democracy. The people in the street were young people, monks and civilians who were not participating during the 1988 revolt.

"Now the military has cracked down the revolt, and the result may very well be that the regime will enjoy another 20 years of silence, ruling by fear."

Mrs Agerlid said Rangoon is heavily guarded by soldiers.

"There are extremely high numbers of soldiers in Rangoon's streets," she added. "Anyone can see it is absolutely impossible for any demonstration to gather, or for anyone to do anything.

"People are scared and the general assessment is that the fight is over. We were informed from one of the largest embassies in Burma that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned."

The diplomat also said that three monasteries were raided yesterday afternoon and are now totally abandoned.

At his border hideout last night, 42-year-old Mr Win said he hopes to cross into Thailand and seek asylum at the Norwegian Embassy.

The 42-year-old chief of military intelligence in Rangoon's northern region, added: "I decided to desert when I was ordered to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks onto trucks.

"They were to be killed and their bodies dumped deep inside the jungle. I refused to participate in this."

With his teenage son, he made his escape from Rangoon, leaving behind his wife and two other sons.

He had no fears for their safety because his brother is a powerful general who, he believes, will defend the family.

*sh!t. if this is true. sh!t. sh!t. sh!t.

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Guess who's supporting the junta??

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/web-of-cash-power-and-cronies/2007/09/28/1190486569946.html?page=fullpage

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supposely Singapore.

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aye. of course. all's taken with pinch of salt and pepper.

however, there's a saying about smoke with fire. without the fire, where's the smoke. though, sometimes.. it's just smoke and no fire. ie: mozzie coil.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7022437.stm

Burmese monks 'to be sent away'
Burmese people eat on the streets of Rangoon
Monks are absent, but people in Rangoon are going about their lives
Thousands of monks detained in Burma's main city of Rangoon will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.

About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.

They are being held at a disused race course and a technical college.

Sources from a government-sponsored militia said they would soon be moved away from Rangoon.

The monks have been disrobed and shackled, the sources told BBC radio's Burmese service. There are reports that the monks are refusing to eat.

The country has seen almost two weeks of sustained popular unrest, in the most serious challenge to the military leadership for more than two decades.

   
Their eyes are on the international community, their only hope is that the world will see their plight and help them
A Buddhist activist

Buddhist monk's view
Reporters' update
Exiles in desperate conditions

The authorities said 10 people were killed as the protests were dispersed, though diplomats and activists say the number of dead was many times higher.

The banned opposition broadcaster Democratic Voice of Burma has issued a picture which they say shows the body of a monk floating near the mouth of the Rangoon river.

Last week several monasteries were raided, and there were reports of monks being beaten and killed.

With many monks behind bars, the demonstrations have now died down.

On Monday, the centre of Rangoon was almost back to normal, a reporter, who cannot be identified for security reasons, told the BBC.

Most shops and temples have reopened and people appear to be getting on with their lives. But there seemed to be a group of soldiers around every corner, and very few monks about, the reporter said.

This is notable in a city where monks can usually be spotted going in and out of temples, shopping at street stalls and chatting in tea shops.

Picture, taken by the Democratic Voice of Burma, apparently showing the body of a dead Burmese monk
Monks were reportedly killed (Image: Democratic Voice of Burma)

The atmosphere in Rangoon is tense, the reporter said. Local people are well aware that the monks have been locked away and are afraid that they will be next.

The crackdown, in which unarmed protesters were beaten, tear-gassed, and shot at, has attracted condemnation from abroad, and even from Burma's neighbours in the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean).

more via the link above.

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erm, the articles are from the web.

basically everyone can read about it.

there's always good and bad journalist. but then again, who's to decide good/bad? just because he speaks bad things about you, would make him a bad journalist? what if it was based on facts that he has collected from credible sources?

sometimes, the truth does stink.

the pen is indeed mightier than the sword in the context of the digital world. with a few clicks on the keyboard, the data goes to the global audience.

if there's no truth in that article, that journalist would lose his creditability, as does the newshouse.  in turn, they would lose their audience over time. which would be dire to most agency.

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probably wants some fame and fortune to work in a tabloid. maybe new paper would hire him.

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via : Clubsnap.org - In search of the truth

that japanese guy who was shot dead.

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read last week in the papers that the Junta say something about "it's our business, outsider stay out of it."

[Cobra]

In a way they are right ... what's happening in Myanmar does not post any security threat to the region or Internationally. ... its an internal affair ... however, the world (not exactly the entire world) are concern becos of their investments and opportunities in the country .. the oil , gold, gems, wood, etc etc. ... anyone invested in myanmar jade ? .... kekeke.

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World rounds on Myanmar after Suu Kyi ruling (Agence France-Presse - 8/11/2009)

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been handed another 18 months of house arrest, taking the Nobel laureate out of the picture for elections next year and sparking international outrage.

A court convicted the 64-year-old at the end of a marathon trial for breaching the terms of her detention by the ruling military junta, following a bizarre incident in which an American man swam uninvited to her home.

Judges sentenced Suu Kyi to three years of hard labour and imprisonment, but military ruler Than Shwe signed a special order commuting the sentence and ordering her to serve out a year-and-a-half under house arrest.

However, the regime's apparent concession to global calls for Suu Kyi's release failed to win over its critics, with the European Union threatening fresh sanctions and world leaders uniting in condemnation.


"Thank you for the verdict," a grim-faced Suu Kyi, wearing pink and light grey traditional Burmese dress, said after the court at Yangon's notorious Insein Prison announced the verdict.

John Yettaw, 54, the epileptic former US military veteran who swam to her lakeside house in May, was sentenced to seven years of hard labour and imprisonment on three charges.

Two female aides who lived with Suu Kyi also had their sentences reduced to 18 months. The opposition leader and her assistants had both faced jail terms of up to five years.

Suu Kyi was later driven back to the house under tight security and the road outside the crumbling villa was sealed off, Myanmar officials said.

She has already been in detention for 14 of the past 20 years since Myanmar's ruling generals refused to recognise her National League for Democracy's landslide victory in elections in 1990.

Home Affairs Minister Maung Oo had made a surprise entrance to the courtroom just minutes after the judgment was read out to announce Than Shwe's intervention in the case.

He said her time in house arrest could be shortened "if she lives well in the suspended sentence", saying that the move was "also for the peaceful security of the country and also to move towards democratisation".

The case has drawn international outrage amid claims that the junta was concocting the charges to keep her locked up for the elections due in 2010, Myanmar's first since the cancelled vote of 1990.

Suu Kyi's lawyers argued during the trial that she could not be held responsible for Yettaw's actions. Her lawyer Nyan Win said her legal team would decide whether to lodge an appeal.

Yettaw, a Mormon whose teenage son died two years ago in a motorbike crash, had testified that he swam to her house after receiving a "message from God" that he must protect Suu Kyi against a terrorist plot to assassinate her.

The EU vowed to take "targeted measures" by reinforcing sanctions against the regime. There was no immediate response from the United States, which also imposes sanctions on Myanmar.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "saddened and angry" at the verdict in the "sham trial", and called for the United Nations Security Council to impose a worldwide embargo on the sale of arms to the Myanmar junta.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said new sanctions had to hit the junta where it hurt, especially in the trade of wood and rubies. Australia also called for tougher sanctions, expressing dismay at the "spurious" conviction.

Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman called for an "urgent meeting" of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, of which Myanmar is a member, and Indonesia said it was "very disappointed".

Amnesty International's Myanmar analyst Benjamin Zawacki told AFP: "This is an attempt by the government to try to present a certain amount of leniency. But it's just enough to keep her away on election day."

However, Myanmar's state-run newspapers carried a commentary Tuesday telling foreign countries not to meddle in the nation's affairs and warning Suu Kyi's supporters not to cause trouble.

"The people who favour democracy do not want to see riots and protests that can harm their goal," said the version in the government mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar.


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she's been slowly disappearing from the limelight... only till recently that she's back on the radar.

wonder what's that all about.

caught a recent segment on her saying something that she's a figurehead for democracy. *think it was on BBC?

here's a simple time line on what she is, and had done.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html

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[tags] Myanmar

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will be making a trip up some time next year. anyone else keen to make the trip up?

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[tags] Myanmar

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would be an interesting place to visit again after so many years.