Burma's people.
Thanks,
Tom
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:55:39 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Six days to Free Aung San Suu Kyi
From: japanesegallery@gmail.com
To: ematlanticcanada@hotmail.com
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From: Alice Jay - Avaaz.org
Date: Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Six days to Free Aung San Suu Kyi
To: "japanesegallery@gmail.com"
Hi - Thanks so much for signing the petition to free Aung San Suu Kyi and
Burmese political prisoners. Over 200,000 of us have signed, but there's just 6
days left to act and numbers count - let's send the email below to all our
friends and family:
Dear Friends,
After 13 years of detention, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been
jailed again on trumped up charges by the brutal Burmese regime. Call on UN
Secretary General to secure her and all political prisoners' release:
Burma's democracy leader and Nobel Peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has
been locked up on new trumped up charges, just days before her 13 years of
detention was due to expire. She and thousands of fellow monks and students have
been imprisoned for bravely challenging the brutal military regime with peaceful
calls for democracy.
Risking danger to speak out for their jailed friends, Burmese activists are
demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners and
calling on the world to help. We have just six days to get a flood of petition
signatures to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon calling on him to make their
release a top priority -- he can make this a condition for renewed international
engagement. Follow the link to sign the petition, and forward this email on to
friends to ensure Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners are freed.
Burmese activists will present the global petition to the media on May 26th:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_aung_san_suu_kyi
On May 14th, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and sent to jail, charged in
connection with an American man who allegedly sneaked uninvited into the
compound where she is being held in Yangon. The charges are absurd -- it is the
Burmese military, now accusing her of breach of house arrest, that are
responsible for the security of the compound. It is a pretext to keep her
detained until after elections which are set for 2010.
The Burmese regime is renown for its vicious repression of any threat to full
military control - thousands are in jail in inhumane conditions and denied any
medical care, there are ongoing abuses of human rights, there is violent
repression of ethnic groups, and over a million have been forced into refuge
across the border.
Aung San Suu Kyi's is the greatest threat to the junta's hold on power. Her
moral leadership of the democracy movement and the legacy of her landslide
victory in 1990 elections means that she is the only figure who could face down
the military in elections next year. She has been detained over and over again
since 1988 -- under house arrest and allowed no contact with the outside world.
But this scandalous new detention in the notorious Insein Prison without medical
care could be very dangerous because she is seriously ill.
Sources say that the military regime is fearful of this unified and massive
online call to the UN -- over 160 Burma exile and solidarity groups in 24
countries are participating in the campaign. And the Secretary General and key
regional players that are looking to re-engage with the Burmese regime, can
influence the fate of these prisoners. Last week Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
said: 'Aung San Suu Kyi and all those that have a contribution to make to the
future of their country must be free'. Let's overwhelm him with a global call to
urgently act on his words and stop the arrests and brutality:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_aung_san_suu_kyi
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