Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world. For decades the Burmese regime has fought off pressure–imprisoning elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy activists, wiping out thousands of villages, imposing forced labor, creating refugees-
But last Tuesday Buddhist monks and nuns, revered in Burma, began marching and chanting prayers. The protests spread as hundreds of thousands of ordinary people and public figures joined in, finding the hope they’d lost. Now they’re facing crackdown – so please, show your solidarity to this movement towards reconciliation and democracy and sign the emergency petition supporting the Burmese people — it’ll be delivered to United Nations Security Council members and international media all week.
In the past, Burma’s military rulers have massacred the demonstrators and crushed democracy. The world must stand with the Burmese people at this time, to show the military rulers that the world will not tolerate repression and violence.
Right now, global leaders are gathering in New York for the annual United Nations summit. In speeches, press interviews but also in real actions, we need them to show Burma’s military junta that the global community is willing to act in solidarity with the protesters.
Show your solidarity to this movement for peace and democracy and sign the emergency petition supporting the Burmese people. It’ll be delivered to UN Security Council members and the UN press corps all week:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/
Also take the time to digg the news.
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Anug San Suu Kyi’s connection with the CIA (thru our intelops like DIA officer Col. Robert Helvey) and the Karen insurgency is an open secret:
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And is it a big suprise all this ties back to the American Enterprise Institute, the chief architect of the Iraq war: Link
“Helvey “was an officer of the Defence Intelligence Agency of the Pentagon, who had served in Vietnam and, subsequently, as the US Defence Attache in Yangon, Myanmar (1983 to 85), during which he clandestinely organised the Myanmarese students to work behind Aung San Suu Kyi and in collaboration with Bo Mya’s Karen insurgent group”
Here’s more background on Col Robert Helvey and CIA’s agenda to employ non-violent warfare to destablize other countries (the organge/velvet revolutions being the most recent examples): link
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If it wasn’t for the CIA then, I wouldn’t be here writing my thoughts to the world.
“In order to influence the election, the US agencies undertook a campaign of writing ten million letters, made numerous short-wave radio broadcasts of propaganda and funded the publishing of books and articles, all of which warned the Italians of what the US felt would be the consequences of a communist victory.”
Anyway we’re talking about democracy and human rights here. The militia did not respect the results of the previous democratic elections. There’s no freedom without democracy.
Cutting out this country from the rest of the world will only deteriorate the situation because communication and idea exchange is the basic of growth.
I stand for non violent acts.
I stand for democracy.
I stand for freedom.
Flip, here’s an article from Asia Times on Burmese geopolitics:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ17Ae01.html
The geopolitical stakes of ‘Saffron Revolution’
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The tragedy of Myanmar, whose land area is about the size of George W Bush’s Texas, is that its population is being used as a human stage prop in a drama scripted in Washington by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the George Soros Open Society Institute, Freedom House and Gene Sharp’s Albert Einstein Institution, a US intelligence asset used to spark “non-violent” regime change around the world on behalf of the US strategic agenda.
I see your point and I read the article with interest but I have to say that I still support non violent acts and democratic elections.
I don’t know where you are from or if you’ve ever been to Myanmar nor what your political views are, but I think those people do not deserve such a tyranny. That’s it.
When it comes to violent repression of freedom, I am simply against it.
You are free to stand with Burmese people or to make speculations about the US secret agenda and geopolitical assets.
I believe in freedom, reciprocal respect and communication. Peace out.