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Surat Menyokong Desakan Pembebasan Aung San Suu Kyi
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By Anwar Ibrahim
Categories: Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi and Media
May 14, 2007

Senior General Than Shwe
Naypidaw
Burma

Dear Senior General Than Shwe:

We are writing this public letter to call for the immediate release of the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Her most recent term of house arrest is scheduled to end on May 27, 2007.

On January 8, 2007, new United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on you to release Aung San Suu Kyi. May 27, 2007 affords an excellent opportunity to respond to his request.

Indeed, the UN General Assembly, former UN Commission on Human Rights, ASEAN, European Union, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan and many other countries have all called for Aung San Suu Kyi’s immediate release.

The 2006 UN General Assembly resolution on Burma, which passed overwhelmingly, expressed “grave concern” at the “extension of the house arrest of the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi” and strongly called upon your government to “to release all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally, including National League for Democracy leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and U Tin Oo.”

Aung San Suu Kyi is not calling for revolution in Burma , but rather peaceful, nonviolent dialogue between the military, National League for Democracy, and Burma ’s ethnic groups. The U General Assembly resolution, and 15 previous resolutions also support this approach.

We strongly urge you to respond to the United Nations and countless other countries and regional groupings around the world by releasing Aung San Suu Kyi before May 27th and committing to participate in peaceful, tripartite dialogue as outlined by the General Assembly.

Sincerely,

Signed

Anwar Ibrahim
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (1993-1998)

cc: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon