Monday, 18 May 2009
invitation to free burma political prisoners compaingn free Daw aung san suu gyi
Political prisoners of Burma need YOU!!!!!
Tomorrow, Tuesday 19th May, Between 12noon - 8pm
On the steps of the State Library of Victoria - 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Free Burma's Political Prisoner Campaign & Photo Exhibition
Organised by Burma Campaign Australia
Endorsed and supported by the Victorian Council of Churches. Enquiries: 9650 4511
Contact: Iqbal: 0401 377 986 or Kyaw (Joe) Soemoe on 0403 574 313.
Touchy Email
Dear Jenifer
Hope this email finds you well and happy. Thank you for your emails. Really appreciate them.
I am sure many people would be very angry and emotional about Daw Aung Su Kyi being put in the Insein prison and blaming Mr Yettaw as a fool, who has caused all these troubles.
In my opinion, it might be a blessing in disguise. Nothing has been happening for a while, and then suddenly this has happened, and the whole world is giving attention to Burma again through imprisonment of Daw Su and Mr Yettaw swimming to her residence.
In my view, all the leading group for Burma, inside and abroad, should grab this opportunity and make the most out of it by mass movement of the people inside and outside Burma. All the groups abroad should unite, and in one combined force with one voice, request the UN, USA, European Union, France, UK, Germany, Australia and Canada to put more pressure on the military regime. If possible, physical intervention by UN or other forces. We should re-activate the “Right to Protect” clause to prepare psychologically for the world bodies to act strongly. No harm to put these in the forefront of our requests.
Daw Su may be suffering. But this is the fight for freedom from the military regime. As such, there are expensive prices to pay. There will be a lot of suffering. Nelson Mandela went through many suffering before he was freed. If I may suggest, anger and emotions are not much useful if we want to topple the military regime. It would be wise to keep our minds calm, and to think rationally about the opportunities that situations like this might present. It will also be wise to think ahead of the military regime, so that we are not trapped in their game strategy.
In my view, the military regime, by arresting and imprisoning Daw Su, has made a big strategic mistake. They are claiming that their constitution and the election in 2010 are legitimate, fair and have been done properly for the best interest of the nation. This incidence has shown that the laws imposed by the military regime are nothing but dictatorial, unfair, unjust and for the interest of the military regime to prolong their power. And by revoking the licence of one of the lawyer for Daw Su, U Aung Thein, only shows that the military laws are a sham and the military court is nothing more than a Kangaroo court. They don’t follow proper laws. Never have been. We must stress this point.
I would not be surprised if Daw Su demands that she be freed and the military regime should hand over the government to her party NLD, because the laws that imposed on her to house detention and now in Insein prison are not legitimate. They are not from the people, and not from a legitimate government. We are not required to act like little boys and girls who are afraid of breaking the military regime’s unjust laws. As they are unjust laws, they have to be broken. We can say that, Mr Yettaw, regardless of who he is and how he gets there, he is to be welcomed as a guest, especially as he has swam for hours. Being not a young person, he would be very tired and would be inhumane to ask him to swim back straight away. He would need to recover for quite sometime – even days. It is the military regime’s business to cover the grounds if they don’t want anyone to come and visit Daw Su. The onus is on them. The finger should be pointing at them, and not Daw Su. If the military regime has framed it, it is a big mistake for them. They have forgotten to put the velvet gloves on their iron fists by doing things in a haste through hatred for Daw Su. It reveals the world about the naked truth of the military regime. By this event, they have disgraced themselves in front of the whole world, and discredited their claim that the 2010 election would be fair and legitimate.
This situation has given an opportunity to the groups of Burmese leaders inside and outside Burma, to unite and make the most of it, calmly and with strategic movements in mind. All forces to unite including Chin, Kachin, Shan, Karen, Kareni, Mon, Arakanese, Kaya, Wa, Myoung, and others, regardless of religions or tribes. If we want to succeed, we need to stay calm and patient. It can be a long haul. One thing is certain, no one can kill the wishes of the people, no matter how much guns they have.
Please take care and hope you have a pleasant and a calm day.
Best regards
Zor Hane
နိုင္ငံ တကာ ရွိ ျမန္မာ သံ ရံုး မ်ား သို ့ သတိ ေပး စာ မ်ား ေရာက္ ရိွ ျခင္း
ျပည္ တြင္း မွေန ၍ နိုင္ငံ တကာ ရွိ ျမန္မာ သံ ရွံး မ်ား သို ့ အထူး သတိထားေနႀကရန္
( ေပါက္ ခ်္ မွ တဆင္ ့) အ ေသးစိပ္ လွ်ိဳ ၀ွက္ ညြန္ႀကားခ်က္မ်ား နွင္ ့ တပ္လွန္ ့ထားေႀကာင္း ခိုင္လံု ေသာ သံတမန္ သတင္း ရပ္ ကြက္မ်ား မွ တဆင္ ့သိရွိ ရသည္ ။ အခ်ိဳ ့အေရး ႀကီးသည္ ့ထိုင္း ၊ ဂ်ပန္ ၊ အေမရိကား ၊ ကေန ဒါ ၊ စသည္ ့နိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ေန ့ည မျပတ္ အနည္း ဆံုး လူနွစ္ ေယာက္ စီ ကင္း က် တာ၀န္ ယူ ခိုင္း ထား ျပီး ေနျပည္ေတာ္ နွင္ အျမဲ ဆက္သြယ္ မႉ မျပတ္ရန္ ညြန္ႀကားထားသည္ ။ သံတမန္ မိသားစု ၀င္ မ်ား ေဆြမ်ိဳး သားသမီးမ်ားကို ပါ ကင္း ေစာင္ ့ရန္နွင္ ့ ေက်ာင္းသြားျခင္း ၊ ရံုး သြားျခင္း ၊ ေစ်း သြားျခင္းတို ့တြင္ ၊ ေဒသခံ ဒရိုင္ပါ တို ့ေမာင္း နွင္ ေသာ သံရွံး ၏ ကားျဖင္ ့သာ သြားလာရန္
ညြန္ႀကားထားေႀကာင္း သိရသည္ ။ သံရံုး သို ့ဖုန္းဆက္လွ်င္လည္း ျမည္သည္ ့ျမန္မာ သံ၀န္
ထမ္း ကမွ် မကိုင္ရန္နွင္ ့ ေဒသခံ Receptionist မ်ားမွ သာ ဖုန္းတဆင္ ့ကိုင္ရန္ နွင္ ့ အင္
တာကြန္ျဖင္ ့ျမန္မာ ၀န္ထမ္း မ်ားမွ နားဆင္ ရန္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ မွ ညြန္ႀကားထားသည္ ။
သံရွံး မွ စာရြက္စာတမ္းမ်ားကို အမိုက္ပံုး ထဲ သို ့မျပစ္ ရန္ ၊ စာရြက္ ဖ်က္စက္ မ်ား သံရွံုးတိုင္း
အသစ္ ၀ယ္ထားရန္ ၊ ေဒသ လံု ခ်ံဳ ေရး Alarm Company မ်ား Motions Sensors သံုး မီး လံုး မ်ား ကင္မရာ ရုပ္ ဖမ္း စက္မ်ား တပ္ဆင္ထားရန္ Budget ခြင္ ့ျပဳ ထားျပီးျဖစ္သည္ ။
အခ်ိဳ ့နိုင္ငံမ်ား ဂ်ပန္ ၊ ထိုင္း စသည္ တို ့တြင္ ေဒသခံ ရဲ မ်ားကို နာရီ ျပည္ ့ငွါး ထားရန္ ၊ အ
ေနာက္နိုင္ငံႀကီးမ်ားတြင္ တခါဘူးမွ် မငွါးဘူးသည္ ေဒသခံ Security မ်ား ငွါး ယန္းအသံုးျပဳ
ရန္ ညြန္ႀကားထားသည္ ။ အထူး ညြန္ႀကားခ်က္ မွာ သံရံုး တိုင္း မိမိ တို ့ေရာက္ရွိရာ နိုင္ငံ
တိုင္း ရွိ အာဆီ ယံ သံ ရံုး ၀န္ထမ္း မ်ားနွင္ ့ မိမိတို ့အဆင္ ့ဆင္ ့အလိုက္ အထူး ပိုမို မိတ္
ေဆြဖြဲ ့ထားရန္ ( Lunch အတူ စားျခင္း ၊ လက္ေဆာင္ေပးျခင္း ) ညြန္ႀကားထားသည္ ။
သံအမတ္ႀကီး ၏ေနအိမ္မွ ထမင္းခ်က္ အမ်ိဳး သမၼီးမ်ားမွ အစ ဥယဥ္ မႉး အဆံုး စေန ၊ တ
နဂၤေႏြ ထြက္လည္ ခြင္ ့ကို ေခတၱ ပိတ္ထားရန္ စသည္ တို ့ပါသည္..
ျပည္ပရွိ မိမိတို ့မိသားစုမ်ားထံ လိုက္လာရန္ ၊ လည္ ရန္ အသင္ ့ျဖစ္ေနေသာ ျပည္တြင္း ထဲ မွ သံတမန္ မိသားစု ၊ ေဆြမ်ိဳးစုမ်ားကို လည္း ယာယီထြက္ခြင္ ့ပိတ္ထားလိုက္သည္ ။
ထို ထက္ပိုဆိုးသည္ မွာ သံရံုး ၀န္ထမ္း အခ်င္း ခ်င္းႀကားဥ္ ပင္ လွ်င္ အခ်င္း ခ်င္း အထူးသ
တိထားေစာင္ ့ႀကည္ ့ႀကရန္ ၊ အေရး ေပၚ အေျခအေနေပၚ အခြင္ ့ေကာင္းယူ၍ နိုင္ငံ ေရး ခိုလံု ခြင္ ့မ်ိဳး ျဖင္ ့ထြက္မေျပး နိုင္ေစရန္ သံအမတ္ ကို အထူး မွာႀကားထားသည္ ။ မည္သည္ ့မီဒီ
ယာနွင္ ့မွ် အင္တာဗ်ဴး မလုပ္၇န္ ၊ ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ နိုင္ငံျခားေရး ဌါန မ်ား၊ ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားကို အထူး
နည္းကပ္စြာဆက္ဆံရန္ ( ဖါးထားရန္ ) ညြန္ႀကားထားသည္ ။
ေနျပီးစားျပီး US $ ၁၂၀၀ မွ က်ပ္ ၄၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္အထိရေသာ သံယံုး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားကို လစာထပ္
မံတိုးေပးရန္ အသံမ်ားလည္း ထြက္ေပၚ လွ်က္ရွိသည္ ။
ဘန္ေကာက္သံရံုး အပိုင္စီး မႉမ်ိဳး ကဲ ့သို ့ျဖစ္ေပၚ လာလွ်င္ အဘယ္သို ့အေရး ေပၚ လုပ္
ေဆာင္ရမည္ ကို လည္း သံအမတ္ႀကီးကို လွ်ိဳ၀ွက္ သီးသန္ ့မွာႀကားထားသည္ …
သူတို ့ဘာေႀကာင္ ့ ျပည္ပတြင္ ဤသို ့ေႀကာက္ေနႀကရတာလဲ ?
ေရဘုရင္ မိေက်ာင္းသည္ပင္ ကုန္း ေပၚ ေသာင္ျပင္ေပၚ တြင္ ဖြတ္ကဲသို ့ ပင္ျဖစ္ေႀကာင္း
မိမိကို မိမိသိရိွႀက၏
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မွ ကူးယူေဖၚျပပါ သည္ ..
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အမႈ မနက္ျဖန္ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္း
မဇၩိမသတင္းဌာန
အင္းစိန္ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အတြင္းရွိ အထူးတရား႐ုံးမွ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အမႈ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းကို မနက္ျဖန္ နံနက္သုိ႔ ခ်ိန္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။
ယေန႔နံနက္ ၁ဝ နာရီခြဲတြင္ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းစတင္ခဲ့ျပီး ေန႔လည္ ၁၂ နာရီခြဲတြင္ ထမင္းစားခ်ိန္ ေခတၱနားသည္။ မြန္းလြဲ ၃ နာရီ ခြဲတြင္ အဆံုးသတ္ခဲ့သည္။
တရားခြင္မွအျပန္ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းက သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို ႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ က်န္းမာေရး ေကာင္းမြန္ေၾကာင္း ထဲ့သြင္း ေျပာဆိုသြားခဲ့သည္။
သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲသို႔ ျပည္တြင္းရွိ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။
တိုက္ပြဲ စေနျပီ
အေျခအေန တစတစ တင္းမာလာေနျပီ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လွည္းတန္းတြင္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား စတင္ စုရံုး ေရာက္ရိွလာ သျဖင့္ ရဲ မ်ားခ်လာေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။
မီးပြိဳင့္ကေန ပိတ္ထားပါတယ္။
ယခုအခါမွာ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္အတြင္းသို ့ ေရွ ့ေန (၄) ဦးနဲ ့ အေမရိကန္သံရုံးမွသူမ်ား ၀င္ေရာက္သြားပါျပီ။ ေစာင့္ႀကည့္ေနႀကသူမ်ား ဆက္လက္ရွိေနႀကပါတယ္။
ျပည္သူလူထုအျပင္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားနဲ ့ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားပါ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ေစ်းဘက္ေနရာေတြမွာ ေရာက္ရွိေနႀကပါတယ္။
ဒီ့အတြက္ က်န္ေသာ ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီးတစ္ရပ္လုံးမွ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းအင္အားျဖည့္ေပးႀကဖို ့ အႏူးအညြတ္ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံေႀကာင္း အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ေရွ ့ေရာက္ေနသူမ်ားမွ ေတာင္းပန္ေမတၱာရပ္ခံေနပါတယ္
အဖမ္းအဆီးစေနျပီ။ အနဲဆံုး ငါးေယာက္ေလာက္ပါသြားတယ္လို႔ေျပာတယ္။ ေရြျပည္သာက လူငယ္ ကိုေထြးသိန္း တစ္ေယာက္ပဲ နာမည္သိရေသးတယ္။
သံရံုကားမ်ား ၀င္လာျခင္း
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ရံုထုတ္သည္ကို လာေရာက္ၾကည ့္ရႈ ့ရန္ အေမရိကန္ ၊ ၾသစေတးလ် အပါ၀င္ သံရံုး ၈ ခုမွ ကားမ်ား အင္စိန္ေထာင္ ဖက္သို ့၀င္ရန္ ေရာက္လာေနပါျပီ။ ကားမ်ားကို အ၀င္မခံပဲ ပိတ္ထားသျဖင့္ အခ်င္းမ်ား လ်က္ရိွေနေၾကာင္းသတင္း ပို ့လိုက္ပါတယ္။
ေဒၚစုတိုက္ပြဲ ၀င္ေနျပီ
၀န္ထမ္းေတြက ေဒၚစုၾကည္ လို လာေခၚပါတယ္။ ေဒၚစုၾကည္ ရံုးထုတ္ရင္ ထြက္ခဲ့ပါလို ့ဆိုပါတယ္။
ေဒၚစု က ျပန္ျပင္ေခၚပါ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္လ ို ေခၚမွာ ထြက္နိင္မယ္လို ့ဆိုတဲ့အတြက္
အေျခအတင္ျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္းသိရပါတယ္။ ေဒၚစု ကိုအတင္းအၾကပ္ရံုထုတ္ရန္ ၾကိဳးပန္းေနေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ သတိၱရိွစြာျဖင့္ ကုလားထိုင္ေပၚတြင္ထိုင္ေနျပီး လာေခၚေသာ ေထာင္၀င္ထမ္းမ်ားကို
မလိုက္ ဟု ရာ ဇသံေပးလိုက္ေၾကာင္းသိရပါတယ္။ ဒီသတင္းကို တျပည္လံုးကိုျဖန္ ့ေပးပါ။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တိုက္ပြဲကို စတင္လိုက္ပါျပီ။ အားလံုး လက္ပိုက္ၾကည္ မေနၾကပါနဲ ့ ။
ေထာင္ အာဏာ ပိုင္မ်ားက အင္စိန္ေထာင္ ထဲ မွာေထာင္ထဲမွာ ေထာင္သားေတြအားလံုး ကို အလုပ္မခ်ပဲ ပံုစံထိုင္ခိုင္းထားတယ္။ ေထာင္ထဲမွာ ဆူမဲ ့ေနအထား ကိုေရာက္ေနျပီ။
သတင္းမ်ားကိုဆက္လက္တင္ျပေပးေနပါမယ္။
သတင္းထုတ္ ျပန္ခ်က္ အမွတ္- ၃
နအဖ လူတစုသည္ အေၾကာက္လြန္က အင္စိန္ ေဖာ့ကန္ ေအာင္ဆန္းဘက္ကပိတ္ထားတယ္အင္းစိန္ဂံုးတံတားကေန စျပီး ေထာင္ထိပိတ္တယ္လိုင္းကားလည္းသြားမရဆိုက္ကားလည္းမရသံဆူးၾကိုးတုန္းေတြပိတ္ထားတယ္လို ့သိရပါတယ္။ လမ္းသြားလမ္းလာလူအမ်ားမွာ အလြန္ ေဒါသထြက္လ်က္ရိွေနၾကတယ္။
ေဒၚစုသတင္း
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ေထာင္ထဲသို ့သြင္းစဥ္က လက္ေပြပံုစံယူကာ ရာဇ၀တ္သားတဦးကဲ့သို ့ျပဳမူဆက္ဆံလိုက္ၾကသည္ဟု သတင္းရရိွပါသည္။
တိုက္ပြဲ သတင္း ထုတ္ ျပန္ ခ်က္ - အမွတ္ ၁
သန္းေရႊ ေနာက္လိုက္ေတြကအင္စိန္ - ေပါက္ေတာ၀ က စပိတ္ထားတယ္လမ္းၾကိဳလမ္းၾကားေတြလည္း ပိတ္ထားတယ္အရပ္၀တ္ရဲေတြနဲ႔ စြမ္းအားရွင္ေတြရိွေနတယ္။ ဒါေပဲ ့ လာၾကည္ ့တဲ့လူေတြ တေျဖးေျဖးမ်ားလာျပီ။ ေဒၚစုရံုထုတ္လာမွာကို ျမင္လို ျမင္ျငား သူတို ့လာၾကည ့္ၾကတာျဖစ္တယ္။ သူတို ့မ်က္နာမွာ ခံျပင္းမႈ ေဒါသ ထြက္မႈေတြကိုေတြ ့ေနရတယ္။ လူေတြက အရြယ္စံုပဲျဖစ္တယ္။ လူငယ္ေတြနည္းျပီး လူလတ္ပိုင္းေတြမ်ားတယ္။ လူၾကီးေတြလည္းေတြ ့ေနရပါတယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုလက္ထိပ္ခတ္ျပီးထုတ္လာ တယ္လို ့လည္း အနားကလူတခ်ိဳ ့ကေျပာေနတာကို ၾကားေနရပါတယ္။
ပိတ္ထားတဲ့ေနရာကေန လွမ္းၾကည့္ေနၾကရတယ္လူေတြက မီးပြိဳင့္ေနရာ ကေနပဲ ၾကည့္ေနရတာကိုေတြ ့တယ္။ ေစ်းအထိကို၀င္လို႔မရတာေအာင္ေဇယ်တံတားအဆင္း မီးပြိဳင့္ကေန ပိတ္ထားတာတာကိုေတြ ့ရတယ္။ ရဲ စုစုေပါင္း ၁ရာေက်ာ္ေလာက္ေတာ့ေတြ ့ေနရတယ္။ အေျခအေနက ေတာ့ အေတာ္ေကာင္းမဲ့သေဘာရိွတယ္။ လူေတြသတိၱရိွေနတာကိုေတြ ့ရတယ္။
Junta's Plot: Taxi driver who bravely informed us of his true account
by BDC
17 May 2009
People are very upset about what the junta did to Aung San Suu Kyi since they already knew this was nothing more than a political ploy.
When the junta took Aung San Suu Kyi from her home and charged her in the Insein Prison, a conscientious citizen from Rangoon with first hand knowledge of the incident contacted us. He was a taxi driver and at first he said he had information on John Willam Yettaw. So we made an appointment and met.
When we first met he explained that he didn’t know the name of Yettaw at that time, but now he clearly identified his face when he saw him on the news. Knowing the junta was using Yattaw as a scapegoat in this criminal scheme the taxi operator could not keep silent about this injustice against our true leader.
We agreed in advance not to record our conversation but because of the serious nature of this matter but I made sure to record the conclusion of our conversation. For fear of retribution from the junta for revealing such damning evidence I was compelled to keep the cabbie anonymous.
He said; “On 2 May, Yettaw hired my Taxi from the Rangoon airport and dropped him in front of Aung San Suu Kyi’s house. I saw Yettaw display a red card to the security guard then they ushered him into the compound. I thought, at that time, this was just normal and did not think anything about it".
You can listen to the short recording file here.
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The true account is as follow: Yettaw entered the Aung San Suu Kyi’s house compound with the help of the junta’s security and hide inside. And the next day morning when Aung San Suu Kyi’s roommates saw him, he made himself to look as if he just swam across the lake then said; “I just swam across the lake and I am ailing, starving and very tired”.
Another aspect to consider is the fact the junta hurriedly replaced the security guards after the incident in an attempt to erase as many clues as possible. John William Yettaw did not swim across the lake. This was just a junta ploy. For the sake of justice we are publishing this true accounting for the world to see as Aung San Suu Kyi goes to trial. I would also like to express my sincerest appreciation to the taxi driver who bravely informed us of this true account.
This is the translated version of Junta's Plot published on niknayman-niknayman
You can get the link here at BDC.
Best regards,
Myo Thein
Aung San Suu Kyi Framed
According to the *taxi driver who picked John William Yettaw up at the airport on May 2nd “John did not swim to Aung San Suu Kyi’s home”, John was dropped off at the gate of Suu Kyi’s home. Then the cabbie witnessed as John showed the guards a red document then was allowed to enter the compound where he donned flippers, got wet and pretended to swim across the lake and lied to Suu Kyi’s caretakers. According to John Yettaw’s wife, John was incapable of swimming since he suffered asthma and diabetes. He was also a very timid and fearful man according to his wife. The whole accounting is a fabrication from Naypyidaw to find an excuse to keep Aung Suu Kyi in jail.
With the level of security around Suu Kyi’s home it was all but impossible for anyone to enter her compound or even swim in the vicinity. But if you had permission from the junta you could move around with no restrictions. Either John was extorted somehow or he got a handsome financial reward for working with the junta. It’s a far cry from being a student of psychology. As we speak absolutely everything about John Yettaw is being dissected and his finances will surely be most reveling if there is any intercessions or unusual activity.
If the cabbies accounting is correct, John W. Yettaw will have to answer to US and International authorities on numerous charges including perpetrating fraud, conspiracy, human rights violations and violating US Government sanctions by working with the junta. He will also earn the honor of being one of the most hated men on every continent on the planet.
The desperate Gen. Than Shwe just keeps digging himself a deeper hole as he acts like a man possessed as the 2010 elections draw closer. But it is to no avail since the world has already determined this election to be a sham and a hoax. The only people Than Shwe will convince are his ardent followers who’ve cashed in their morality for the hard currency they enjoy under his regime. Many of them are international corporations and now more than ever it is time to revel all the players who finance Than Shwe’s bloody military junta. It is time to expose the individuals around the world who are lining their pockets with Than Shwe’s blood money. Some of them are affluent, wealthy society people.
Never before has the plight of Burma come into focus as has today. Than Shwe is making blunder after blunder as he tries to rally support for his bogus election. Now he has to do some major damage control since this latest antic has gotten the attention of the world and on all levels. Already many generals are completely at a loss for words as they find themselves in the fish bowl of world opinion. They are coming to realize that the game is all over in Burma. With words like defection, coup and assassination on their lips these days it’s only a matter of time before a consortium of generals make a move. Making deals and pining for immunity is also on their lips and when the rats abandon ship there will be plenty of witnesses to the inner workings of Than Shwe’s crime regime.
It just did not make sense that someone could simply swim to Aung San Suu Kyi’s home anyway.
*http://burmadigest.info/2009/05/17/taxi-drivers-evidence-junta-deceives-to-arrest-aung-san-suu-kyi/
http://www.niknayman-niknayman.co.cc/2009/05/blog-post_1167.html
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