Aung San Suu Kyi******Woman of PEACE Discussions - iPeace.us2024-03-29T13:34:34Zhttps://ipeace.us/group/aungsansuukyiwomanofpeace/forum?feed=yes&xn_auth=noA. I. honors Aung San Suu Kyitag:ipeace.us,2009-07-28:2217368:Topic:18961702009-07-28T19:16:00.688ZLincoln Sobralhttps://ipeace.us/profile/LincolnSobral
I'm sure that if Gandhi were alive he would be recruiting people to help release Aung San Suu Kyi from prison in Myanmar. Bono (U2) and many others are doing their best. Thank you. "Aung San Suu Kyi wins top Amnesty honor (Jul 27, 2009)". Hey you: read and help to spread it everywhere, in forums and by e-mail (use the attached file)!!<br />
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I'm sure that if Gandhi were alive he would be recruiting people to help release Aung San Suu Kyi from prison in Myanmar. Bono (U2) and many others are doing their best. Thank you. "Aung San Suu Kyi wins top Amnesty honor (Jul 27, 2009)". Hey you: read and help to spread it everywhere, in forums and by e-mail (use the attached file)!!<br />
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AP - segunda-feira, 27 de julho de 2009<br />
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Photo By AP<br />
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Myanmar's long-detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is receiving Amnesty International's highest honor, U2's Bono publicly announced Monday before 80,000 cheering fans.<br />
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The human rights watchdog earlier said it hoped the Ambassador of Conscience Award would help protect her as she faces a potential prison sentence.<br />
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"Her crime is that, if she was free to participate in elections, she would win. This week the brutal force that has her incarcerated will decide if she spends the next five years in prison," Bono said. He added his wish that Suu Kyi's latest international honor "will help keep her safe."</b><br />
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Amnesty International leaders said the award was timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Suu Kyi's initial arrest on July 20, 1989, as she led a campaign to oust Myanmar's military dictators.<br />
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Suu Kyi's opposition party, the National League for Democracy, won national elections in 1990 but the military refused to relinquish power. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 but has been under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years.<br />
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Suu Kyi, 64, is on trial for allegedly harboring an American who swam out to her residence uninvited. The offense of violating house-arrest rules carries a potential five-year prison sentence, and foreign diplomats have been barred from key parts of her trial. Suu Kyi's supporters accuse Myanmar's junta of seeking to put her behind bars until after elections planned for 2010.<br />
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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a fellow Nobel recipient and the first winner of the Ambassador of Conscience Award in 2003, said foreign recognition probably has deterred Myanmar's rulers from imposing even harsher punishments on Suu Kyi.<br />
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"I know from my own experience that international attention can, to a certain extent, protect the unjustly persecuted from punishments that would otherwise be imposed. ... Goodness knows what would have happened if her fate had not been highlighted as it is again today," Havel said in a statement.<br />
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U2 -- which won the top Amnesty honor in 2005 in recognition of Bono's humanitarian campaigning -- has been honoring Suu Kyi at each performance of the band's ongoing European tour. More than 100 people walked on stage Monday night, holding Suu Kyi masks over their faces, as U2 performed its 2000 song honoring Suu Kyi, "Walk On."<br />
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An Amnesty International official who attended the concert, Donna Jean Guest, said the London-based organization hoped one day to be able to present Suu Kyi the award in person. Amnesty officials were permitted to visit her most recently in 2003.<br />
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"She should never have been arrested in the first place," said Guest, Amnesty's deputy director for the Asia-Pacific region. "We have been very concerned from the start that the authorities would use any pretext to lock her up until after the elections."<br />
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Source: Mail.com News<br />
<a href="http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/world/0/APNews/General-World-News/20090727/U_EU-Ireland-Suu-Kyi?pageid=1">http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/world/0/APNews/General-World-News/20090727/U_EU-Ireland-Suu-Kyi?pageid=1</a> Global Campaign To Free Aung San Suu Kyi launched todaytag:ipeace.us,2009-06-23:2217368:Topic:17861982009-06-23T16:11:12.722ZLincoln Sobralhttps://ipeace.us/profile/LincolnSobral
Both Yoko Ono and Obama are boosting Amnesty International campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi<br />
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64ForSuu.org: Global Campaign To Free Aung San Suu Kyi launched today<br />
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A new website calling for the release of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all of Burma’s political prisoners, launches today with the backing of major celebrities and a coalition of NGOs and trade unions. The website will become the global hub of the international campaign to release Aung San Suu Kyi.<br />
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64forSuu…
Both Yoko Ono and Obama are boosting Amnesty International campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi<br />
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64ForSuu.org: Global Campaign To Free Aung San Suu Kyi launched today<br />
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A new website calling for the release of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all of Burma’s political prisoners, launches today with the backing of major celebrities and a coalition of NGOs and trade unions. The website will become the global hub of the international campaign to release Aung San Suu Kyi.<br />
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64forSuu by Yoko Ono<br />
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Aung San Suu Kyi,<br />
Your heart beats with my heart.<br />
My eyes see what you see.<br />
My belief is your belief.<br />
And my life is connected to thousands of universes, as is yours.<br />
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Every twinkle of the star must travel billions of years to be seen by us.<br />
But our minds do not have to travel at all to be seen by each other.<br />
Because we are altogether.<br />
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Yoko Ono Lennon<br />
June 19th ‘09<br />
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Statement by President Obama on Aung San Suu Kyi’s House Arrest and Detention<br />
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Below is a statement just released by President Obama:<br />
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THE WHITE HOUSE<br />
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Statement by the President on Aung San Suu Kyi’s House Arrest and Detention<br />
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I call on the Burmese government to release National League for Democracy Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from detention immediately and unconditionally. I strongly condemn her house arrest and detention, which have also been condemned around the world. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued opinions affirming that the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi dating back to 2003 is arbitrary, unjustified, and in contravention of Burma’s own law, and the United Nations Security Council reaffirmed on May 22 their concern about the situation and called for the release of all political prisoners.<br />
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s continued detention, isolation, and show trial based on spurious charges cast serious doubt on the Burmese regime’s willingness to be a responsible member of the international community. This is an important opportunity for the government in Burma to demonstrate that it respects its own laws and its own people, is ready to work with the National League for Democracy and other ethnic and opposition groups, and is prepared to move toward reconciliation.<br />
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By her actions, Aung San Suu Kyi has represented profound patriotism, sacrifice, and the vision of a democratic and prosperous Burma. It is time for the Burmese government to drop all charges against Aung San Suu Kyi and unconditionally release her and her fellow political prisoners. Such an action would be an affirmative and significant step on Burma’s part to begin to restore its standing in the eyes of the United States and the world community and to move toward a better future for its people.<br />
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<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statement-by-the-President-on-Aung-San-Suu-Kyis-House-Arrest-and-Detention/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statement-by-the-President-on-Aung-San-Suu-Kyis-House-Arrest-and-Detention/</a> When will Myanmar achieve democracy?tag:ipeace.us,2009-06-14:2217368:Topic:17540672009-06-14T23:56:29.613ZLincoln Sobralhttps://ipeace.us/profile/LincolnSobral
In The New Nation - Bangladesh (Internet Edition) this week there is an article, depicting some opinions on the past and present political situation in Myanmar, from which I'm reproducing some excerpts here. A copy of the whole article is attached.<br />
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<b>Regarding democratic government, I think that it is not a question of if it will be achieved or not in Myanmar, but when. What do you think? Forecasts?</b><br />
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In The New Nation - Bangladesh (Internet Edition) this week there is an article, depicting some opinions on the past and present political situation in Myanmar, from which I'm reproducing some excerpts here. A copy of the whole article is attached.<br />
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<b>Regarding democratic government, I think that it is not a question of if it will be achieved or not in Myanmar, but when. What do you think? Forecasts?</b><br />
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Thanks<br />
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<b>The future of democracy in Myanmar<br />
by Md. Masum Billah</b><br />
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"The world attention has remained glued to Myanmar for the last several weeks over<br />
the military junta's allegation against Augn San Suu Kyi's violating the house arrest<br />
terms and condition. Really the trial of the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize<br />
recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, has once again catapulted events in Myanmar onto the<br />
front pages of newspapers around the globe. The leader of Burma's struggle for human<br />
rights and democracy has been charged with violating the terms of her house arrest<br />
after an American citizen swam across a lake and broke into her home last month.<br />
Heads of state from Asia and the West, celebrities and U.N. leaders such as human<br />
rights chief Navi Pillay have responded strongly, demanding not only an end to the trial<br />
in Burma's kangaroo courts but the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi who has<br />
been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years.<br />
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"For while the imprisonment of Aug San Suu Kyi without trial has long been denounced,<br />
a less-publicized travesty has been underway in Myanmar for much of the past 15<br />
years. Organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First and Amnesty<br />
International have reported on the crimes against humanity and war crimes<br />
committed under the rule of Myanmar's military regime, including the recruitment of<br />
tens of thousands child soldiers and attacks on ethnic minority civilians.<br />
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[...]"Influenced by both Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence and by more<br />
specifically Buddhist concepts Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratization,<br />
helped found the National League for Democracy on 27 September 1988 and was<br />
under house arrest on 20 July, 1989. She was offered freedom if she left the country<br />
but she refused.<br />
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[...]"US president Barack Obama has described the court proceedings of military junta as a<br />
'show trial' while Myanmar's usually reticent Asian neigbours have expressed strong<br />
concerns. Japan's deputy minister for foreign affairs Kenichiro Sasae, urged Myamar's<br />
junta to listen to the concerns of the world community and also said that Tokyo hopes<br />
Myanmar will go ahead with establishing a democracy in line with international<br />
expectations.[...]."<br />
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<a href="http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/06/15/news0112.htm">Complete article in TNN Bangladesh on-line edition</a>.<p style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://herdeirodocaos.com/?tag=internet&paged=4">Image</a> (not signed) taken from the blog <a href="http://herdeirodocaos.com/"><i>Herdeiro do Caos</i></a> (heir of chaos), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.</p> Aung San Suu Kyi on Non-Violencetag:ipeace.us,2009-02-27:2217368:Topic:12687402009-02-27T04:01:20.431ZMyo Theinhttps://ipeace.us/profile/MyoThein
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