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Today marks the day that Burma's Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 13 years in detention. She is the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

You can check full list of Burma's Political Prisoners Photos and their Profile at this website. You can also sign for the Petition.

Free Burma's Political Prisoner Now (http://www.fbppn.net/)

8888 We will never Forget

We will and we shall never forget 8888 Uprising

Burmese ? Do Something About Your Country !!!
Source:Goldie Shwe (http://whoiswhoinburma.blogspot.com/)

This 20th Anniversary of the 8888 protest is a good time for every Burmese people to do self assessment.

• Are you Burmese or do you belong to an ethnic minority group?

• Are you a participant or a witness to the 8888 protests?

• Do you agree that the military junta brutally crushed the protests?

• Do you agree that the military junta is a terminal cancer within Burmese society, sucking out the energy and resources from the entire nation?

• Do you agree that the junta and followers are interested only in personal wealth and have no single interest in the real development of Burmese nation ? (Read Full Article here)

US Congress Bans Gem Imports from Burma

I got this email from US Campaign for Burma::

Dear Bay Dah,

We are pleased to write to you with major news: last night the U.S. Congress passed new, enhanced sanctions legislation banning the import of gems from Burma. We want to thank the thousands of you who telephoned, emailed, and met with your members of the House of Representatives and Senate. We also want to acknowledge the hard work carried out by the members of the House and the Senate -- as well as their staff members -- who led this effort.

What Does the Legislation Do?
- This new law closes a gaping loophole in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act that had previously allowed Burmese gems to be sold in the United States, even though most all other imports are banned. The Burmese regime's sale of rubies and jade brings them upwards of $300 million per year -- much of that from unsuspecting American consumers. Now, that will come to an end!

- The law also creates the position of a U.S. "Special Coordinator" for Burma, whose job will be to reach out to other countries to build support for Burma's human rights activists and ultimately seek a peaceful transition to democracy in the country.

Why The Legislation Is Important and Next Steps
- Similar to how "conflict diamonds" help prop up a civil war in Africa, the sale of Burmese rubies and jade funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Burma's military dictatorship, financing their reign of terror.
We still have much more work to do -- the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act must be renewed and gems weren't the only source of funds for the military regime -- but for one day we want to pause and celebrate an important step forward.

THANK YOU.
Aung Din, Jeremy Woodrum, Jennifer Quigley, Thelma Young, Jacqui Pilch

Related Link

Associated Press: US Congress passes new Myanmar gemstone sanctions bill,

Agence France Presse : US Congress approves legislation to bar Myanmar gems,

Shame on You !! Than Shwe and his dogs

Burmese People will never Forget General Aung San

He was the Founder of Burmese Army and He sacrificed his life for the Burma and Burmese people

According to the sources from inside Burma that Foreign Embassies were informed that they didn't need to attend the ArZarNi(Martyr's) Day Anniversary on 19 July due to the fact that the junta will only mark this very important occasion in Burmese History as the Township level occasion ONLY. (as a Burmese , I can't believe that they(junta) stoop that low!!! .. Bay Dah)


There is a Burmese proverb ... "A dog who ate the leather Blanket that he slept on without appreciating the fact the blanket gave him the place to sleep .. သေရ ေပၚ အိပ္၊ သေရ နား စား တဲ႕ ေခြး ".


Than shwe, you are same as that dog. May be worse than that dog.

General Aung San founded the Burmese Army and this is the fact you will never able to erase it.. You abused and misused of this patriotic Army to become your personal army for your personal gain instead of for the country and now you ignored the most Important person in Burmese History and Burmese Army History who sacrifice his life for the Burma Independence and you also ignored the one of the most Important day in Burmese History.



Burmese People will never forget Bogyoke(General) Aung San, no matter what all of you try to force the people to forget him. Bogyoke will always in Burmese People Heart.

South Afarica's Leader Don't be double Standard.

Look at the situation in Zimbabwe. Does it make you feel familiar of the situation.

Of course, you are not wrong. It is the same situation, same happening as in Burma.


- Not given recognition on Victory of Opposition Party in the Election
- No transfer of Power after the election
- Accusation of involvement of "Neo Colonial" western countries
- Just for the sake of holding the country power, Give the excuses of the country is in "danger" of invasion by Western Countries and US
- Arresting, terrorising, torturing of supporters of Opposition Party
- Crackdown on Opposition Party
- Forced Relocation of the People
- Land Seizures
- Formed Government organize "Thugs"(Militia group) to terrorise its own people
- Organize fake Public Rally to lie the whole world that people support the Dictator
- Blocked and Banned International news media
- Worthless Currency and Uncontrollable Inflation


When last time whenever EU and US submitted the Humanitarian Intervention action for Burma in UN security Council, South Africa government together with China and Russia, always VOTE AGAINST of UN Humanitarian Intervention in Burma. (The reason of Voting against the Burma Policy is whatever happening in Burma is not effecting to the South Africa and besides that some of South Africa's "friendly" Africa Nations leaders are as corrupted as Burma Junta and South Africa's leader didn't want to upset the corrupted follows Africa Nations leaders. The South Africa Government always mentioned it as "Internal Affairs")

Now Zimbabwe is facing the same Problem as Burma. Instability in Zimbabwe, start effecting South Africa domestic issues and South Africa start lose face among the International Communities and among the other African Nations.

So what the South Africa's Leader Mr. Jacob Zuma saying now.. just look at the news from Africa - Reuters below:

S. Africa's Zuma says Zimbabwe out of control
Tue 24 Jun 2008, 7:33 GMT

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday the situation in Zimbabwe was out of control and called for urgent intervention by the United Nations and the regional SADC grouping.

"The situation in Zimbabwe has gone out of hand, out of control... We cannot agree with what (the ruling) ZANU-PF is doing at this point in time," Zuma said at an investment conference.(link)


The Government of South Africa and its leader Mr. Jacob Zuma, SHAME ON YOU!!!

Now you know what is happening to Burma and Burmese People. When these kind of brutal suppression were and continue happening in SOUTHEAST ASIA COUNTRY, you don't care and voted against the UN resolution but now when it happen in the one of the Africa Nations, you are begging for URGENT UN Intervention!!!!!


DON'T BE DOUBLE STANDARD !!!!!


Here is the Photos of Evil Soul Twin Brothers (Mugabe (Left) and Than Shwe

Ashin Sopaka awarded International freedom prize

Myanmar monk awarded International freedom prize

Buddhist Channel, June 23, 2008

Source: http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,6673,0,0,1,0

Cologne, Germany -- Ashin Sopaka, a Burmese monk was awarded International freedom prize. The prize was presented by the Society of liberty in Rome, Italy.

Ashin Sopaka, a well known Burmese monk currently in exile, played an important role in the Myanmar democracy movements, especially in the September 2007 "saffron revolution".

He is the founder of Cologne-Buddhism-Center (KBC) under the name of Santi Dhamma Vihara in Germany. He is currently lecturing Buddhist studies to the German.

About Ashin Sopaka
Ashin Sopaka was born in Wun Tho, Sagaing Division, Burma in April 16, 1980. He was ordained a novice in 1994 and a monk in 2000. He studied Buddhism at Khanti Pariyatti Monastery (Wun Tho, Sagaing Division, Burma), Wayalet Pariyatti Monastery (Rangoon, Burma) and Man Aung Monastery (Rangoon, Burma).

Ashin passed Buddhist examinations known as Pathamange, Pathamalatt, Pathamagyi in Burma. He arrived Colombo, Sri Lanka on 9th May, 2004 and studied B.A and M.A programme in Colombo.

He successfully completed his B.A and M.A from the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka. He got involved in the Burmese Saffron Revolution while studying at the Buddhist and Pali University.

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Ashin Sopaka Peace Walk (May 2007) Interview Video(YouTube)

Source: http://burmadigest.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/video-diaries-peace-walk-in-usa-prayer-for-daw-suu-and-all-political-prisoners/

A Buddhist monk from Burma id doing a peace walk in USA from Washington DC to New York, starting on May 30, 4th anniversary of Depayin massacre, where Burma National Leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi just escaped Burma regime’s attempted assassination, but nearly 500 followers of Daw Suu were brutally beaten to death by pro-junta militia thugs.

He also made a similar peace walks in Thailand & Germany last year.

Who will save Burma's women and children?

Source: http://nationmultimedia.com/2008/06/19/opinion/opinion_30075891.php

Nilar Thein, a brave human rights activist who is "on the run", hiding from Than Shwe's military dictatorship in Burma. She has been separated from her infant daughter now for over 10 months as she continues to help lead the movement for freedom in Burma. (source: U.S. Campaign for Burma )

Nilar thein is a former student leader in the 1988 democracy uprising in Burma and spent more than nine years in prison.(Source: The Nations)

Who will save Burma's women and children?
By Nilar Thein

Published on June 19, 2008

I woke up from a dream in the middle of the night. I was with my daughter, playing in a small garden.

We were playing hide and seek. I was looking at her from behind a tree. She was so beautiful, with the prettiest smile on her face, looking for me happily. I couldn't hide anymore. I wanted her to find me. I wanted to hold her in my arms and kiss her face gently. I started to show myself to her, but, suddenly I saw three men -with black coats and ugly faces - watching from the shadows near my daughter. I stepped back. I wanted to be found by my daughter, not by them. I still saw my daughter, still looking for me with her innocent smile. I didn't want to hide anymore. I wanted her to find me, but these men would take me away and put me in hell. Then I woke up, with tears on my cheeks.

I have been separated from my daughter for nearly ten months. A midnight knock at our door in August last year changed our lives dramatically. The military junta's security forces took my husband Kyaw Min Yu (also known as Jimmy) on the night of August 21, 2007. He is a leader of the prominent dissident group, the 88 Generation Students, comprising former student leaders and former political prisoners. He and other leaders were taken from their homes that night by the authorities. As a former student activist and a former political prisoner myself, I knew very well how my husband and friends would be treated in the junta's interrogation cells. Therefore, when they came back to arrest me, I went into hiding.

But I must continue to lead the 88 Generation Students with my other colleagues, so that Burma may realise its freedom, and find justice and democracy someday. I must avoid being arrested. However, there are so many difficulties and hardships in moving secretly from one hiding place to another, and I didn't want my daughter to share these hardships. Therefore, I decided to send my three-month-old baby to my parents. Now, I miss her so much.

My mind wanders to University Avenue, where "the Lady", Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been detained under house arrest for so many years. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, will have to spend her 63rd birthday today alone in detention. She will be missing her two sons, too. Her strength and determination helps me and many women in Burma stand up for justice. I thank her for being with us and leading our movement. She is a great reminder to the world that the military junta that rules our country forcibly separates mothers and children.

Coincidentally, the UN Security Council will hold a debate in New York today on "Women, Peace and Security". This debate is a discussion of UNSC Resolution 1325, which was passed unanimously in October, 2000. Resolution 1325 "Calls on all parties to armed conflict to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, and all other forms of violence in situations of armed conflict." It also "Emphasises the responsibility of all States to put an end to impunity and to prosecute those responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes including those relating to sexual violence against women and girls, and in this regard, stresses the need to exclude these crimes, where feasible from amnesty provisions."

US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is expected to chair the debate, with many world leaders discussing the development of women, peace and security. Will they discuss Burma? Will they remember Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the women of Burma who are suffering all forms of abuse by the military junta?

Burma is now in the midst of two conflicts. One is the 50-year-old civil war, raging between the Burmese military and the minority resistance forces, predominately in the eastern part of the country. Burmese troops are raping with impunity tribal women and girls, some as young as eight years old. Burmese soldiers use women in conflict areas as porters to carry their military equipment and supplies during the day, and use them as sex slaves at night. Many women have been brutally killed to erase the evidence of these crimes.

The other conflict is a 20-year old war, waged by the Burmese junta against its own unarmed citizens, who are calling for freedom, justice and democracy. Women activists are beaten, arrested, tortured and then put in prison for many years. Many female activists are mistreated and sexually assaulted by their interrogators and jailers. Children are used as bait by the authorities to get their mothers arrested. Of the 2.5 million people severely affected by Cyclone Nargis - many of whom the military junta simply left to die through starvation and disease - at least a million are women and girls. Recently, a UN expert said that up to 35,000 pregnant women, all cyclone survivors, are at extreme risk of death. However, they will never receive any care from the military.

I hope that Secretary of State Rice and other leaders at the UN Security Council will give consideration to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the women of Burma during their debate. Resolution 1325 is a great development, but implementation and enforcement is still in question. When the government itself is the abuser of human rights and the perpetrator of rape and other forms of gender-based violence, who will protect the victims? Who will end their tragedy? Who will secure the joyful reunion of mothers with their children?

The appeasement policy of some bureaucrats is shameful. Effective and urgent action from the UN Security Council is necessary to help the women in Burma. No more debate. Take action. Please let me be happily reunited with my daughter.

Burma Female Activists
Left to Right: HIV/AIDS activist Phyu Phyu Thin, Leading activist Nilar Thein, A woman activist during a protest, Naw Ohn Hla joins as protest, Mie Mie leads a Rangoon protest





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Many Road-blocks in Rangoon today

Roads Block in Rangoon on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Birthday Today(19June 2008)
According to the information which comes out from Rangoon, there are so many road-blocks around Rangoon today(Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Birthday), including at Prome road near Red Bridge(Formerly Known as "white Bridge" before 8888) which is near the Rangoon University(near Inya Lake) where so many students were beaten and drown by Junta Police in March 1988 Student Protest.

Related Breaking News:
Source: Bangkok Post(http://www.bangkokpost.com)

Burma arrests Suu Kyi supporters on her birthday

Rangoon (dpa) - Burmese authorities on Thursday arrested at least 30 supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who had gathered to protest her five years of imprisonment on her birthday, eye witnesses said.

A group of National League for Democracy (NLD) members gathered outside their party headquarters in Rangoon to mark Suu Kyi's 63rd birthday which falls on Thursday by releasing 63 sparrows and shouting "Free Aung San Suu Kyi".

Seven government cars arrived shortly after the protest began and rounded up at least eight NLD members, including one Buddhist monk, taking them away to an unknown destination, security personnel confirmed. (Full story click here)

Happy Birthday My Fair Lady

Today is the Happy 63 Birthday of The leader of the Burmese People Daw Aung San Suu Kyi



Many Happy returns of the Day Our Leader, The Lady











Source: http://linletkyalsin.blogspot.com/

This is the translation of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Birthday Day Celebration Invitation in Singapore



All the Burmese in Singapore are kindly invited to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 63rd Birthday Celebration on 22 June 2008(Sunday).

Date: 22 June 2008

Place: Topayoh Burmese Monestry

Programme:
10:00 am to 11:00am

Birthday Prayer

11:00am to 12:00am

1. Offer Meal to the Sanghas

2. Offer Lunch to the Public

12:00am to 1:00pm

Reciting of Poems

Photos Exhibitions

Latest New from BBC, 5:00pm GMTNews US marines just 30 mins away from Burma shore Line

Source: BBC world News

I just saw a BBC world news on TV right now(5:00pm GMT). The BBC correspondent interviewed(on the US ship) with the US marines. They(marines) are Just 30 Mins away from the Burma's Shore Line and ready to go in if they get order.( The marine said at the moment they are waitng for the Junta approval but they(marines) follow orders and those who make the order ask them to go in they are ready to go in)

Thai PM is more foolish than the Junta

Thai PM Samak went to Burma and return empty handed but protect Junta. he said he saw Aid supplies donated by the HM Thai King at the relief centre so he said aid supplies are reaching to the Cyclone victims. WHAT A FOOL!!! he tried to please both HM the Thai king and the Junta.

HM Thai King donated the Aid supplies a week ago before Thai PM went to Burma. If the Junta really distributed the Aids supplies to the Cyclone victims, there would be no Aid Supplies at relief center, Aid should be with the cyclone victims but instead he still saw the Aid supplies at the relief center.

That's mean the Junta never distributed the Aid supplies and just keep them for show whoever come and inspect or visit the relief centre.

SAMAK your brain is so little, you didn't know logical thinking, how cam you become a PM. No wonder, that's why you are just a Thaksin follower like a puppy followed his master.

Only the fool who doesn't have enough IQ, will belive what the Junta said
Samak, please read the following article before you say anything.


Steal Big, Steal little
Source: Rule of Lords (http://ratchasima.net/)

International groups in Burma are reportedly acknowledging that the army is “diverting” or “pilfering” aid (euphemisms for thieving) to Cyclone Nargis victims but are declining to give details for fear that they will be locked out completely.(Full story Click here)

Local heroes emerge to help Myanmar cyclone victims where government has failed

Source: AP (http://www.ap.org/)

Myanmar volunteers serve a free breakfast to children at a temple after the destructive Cyclone Nargis on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, May 12, 2008. From a shopkeeper offering free rice porridge to medical students treating the countless sick, ordinary people in Myanmar are stepping up to help cyclone victims while the military regime restricts critically needed international aid. (© APhoto)
(Full story click here)

UN and Donation Countries Please monitor your donations supplies

To whom it may concern

The news were start coming out, those supplies donated by the various countries, UN and Humanitarian Organizations for cyclone victims are now start selling in the Rangoon's various Market and road side. Especially supplies from the Thailand.

Main Culprits are Members of the pro-government militia(terrorist Thugs officially setup by the Junta) the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and the police and the Fire fighters,

UN, International communities and various Humanitarian organization, don't bee too naive. The Junta are all crooks, make sure all the supplies which were donate by all of you, really received by the cyclone victims.

(Please read the post below which I re-posted from Soneseyar Blog)

Latest News from Burma

Source: http://soneseayar.blogspot.com/

This news was posted on the Soneseyar Blog. I reposted the news so that everyone will aware of what is going on inside Burma. Please visit soneseyar blog site for latest Photos(Viewers may find images were disturbing)

Monday, May 12, 2008

Latest News from Burma

May 10, 2008 Here are the latest news today.
(1) Military Government has sealed off the disaster area (delta region)
(2) No one goes in and out.
(3) Soldiers and check points are every where.
(4) They stop all the cars, trucks, buses
(5) If they find relief supplies, the confiscate the supplies.
(6) They arrest anyone whose ID card does not belong to that region.
(7) There are individuals risking their lives to go in there through jungles, swamp lands, etc. with whatever relife supply they can carry in their hands.
(8) Massive relief efforts are outlawed.
(9) No one dares to go help.
(10) Donation to shelters requre permission from the thugs.
(11) Any violators will be beaten by thugs.
(12) Thugs are searching for people who carrying cameras, camcorders, etc. and arrest them.
(13) It is a big geographic area but only handful of roads going in and out and they sieze control of the roads and the area.
(14) Army, police, are everywhere supported by plain-clothed spies and thugs armed with merchetes, guns, bamboo/wooden sticks, and walkie talkies.
(15) Law enforcement there is NOT to serve people. They are to suppress the people. The law enforcement is controlled by the miliraty. Basically, law enforcement is not our friend.
(16) The situation there is not good and military governement does not want you to see.

I just received this..
1. Emphasizing to Phyar Pone Township, authority declare "curfew" on top of "State of Emergency" to forbid not to go out at nights, but they are dumping dead bodies to the river at nights.

2. Today, all the photo shops in yangon were informed by gorverment NOT to print any Nargis-related photographs.

3. 2 days ago Khaw Thu (a famous Myanmar actor) was beaten up by Swan Arr Shin and USDA when they were trying to donate relief goods directly.

4. In Kyauk Than township, 2 monasteries and 1 school (now being used as temporary shelters for storm victims),are forced to move out at latest by 14 May as they are going to use the school and monastry as the voting station
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5. Regarding rescue missions, 1 RedCross ship sank. 1 helicopter down.

Posted by ဆံုဆည္းရာ at 6:44 AM

(The Junta did this because they didn't want the world to see what was really happening there and at the same time they seized the donations from individuals and organization like founded by Ko Kyaw Thu from burma because they(junta) didn't want to show that they cannot able to cope the problem. They try to pretend this because they want to show the world that they able to cope the problems so that they will get less pressure from the world to allow in Aid workers. ...Bay Dah)

Burmese from Singapore collecting Signatures to support Aid workers enter Burma Freely and Quickly

Source: http://linletkyalsin.blogspot.com/

Burmese from Singapore are collecting signature for the petition to show their support as Burmese Public for International Humanitarian Aid supplies and Aid Workers to enter Burma Freely and quickly. They will send this petition to UN Offices and respective Embassies who are sending Aid supplies and Aid workers to Burma.

Those who want to support this petition can go and sign at the Peninsular Plaza Level 5 "Lan Pya Kyaw" library starting from Saturday noon time till Sunday/ Also people can sign at Maha Viraya Monestary between 8:30pm and 10:00pm.

Today is the Darkest day of Burma and its people

Today is 1 week after the cyclone Hit Burma and the day, the Junta doing the referendum for their(not for Burmese people) constitution without considering the tragedy of the cyclone victims. This is how I feel today.

There is only one option Left for UN

Junta already rejected to accept International Aid workers and experts to enter Burma especailly from the western country.

We(the Burmese People) want to plea to the UN and all the International Governments around the world. If you really want to help Burmese People from dying there is only one thing left to do. "Enter Burma" by force and it is Legal and which was written in the UN Charter.

Don't waste time Burmese people are dying!!!

Villagers were forced to vote "yes" to the Junta Constitution

Source: http://www.khitpyaing.org/news/May_2008/9-5-08f.php

At Some Villages in Nam Kham Township, Shan States, villagers were forced to vote "yes" to the Junta's Constitution.

Villagers had to put theballot infornt of the Township Authorites such as Nam Kham Township Chairman U tin Hlaing, Township Chief Administrator U Hla Win, Commander Lt. Colonel Thein Htun of Infantry 290 Regiment.

Lt. Colonel Thein Htun sat beside the Ballot box and the villagers have to show the commender they tick on the "yes" Vote before they(villagers) put inside the ballot box

At the Kun Hane Village, one Villager U Main Swae tick on the (X) no vote. The commander shout at the old man "What are you doing? Are you rebel against the country. Do you want to be send to prison" Then the township Chief administrator told the Commander..oh this person is uneducated, I will give him the new ballot and let him vote "yes".

After that no more villagers dare to vote "No" any more and the Kun Hane Village Secretary personally ticked "Yes" vote for the villagers before put into the ballot box!!!!!

Another news from Kachin State, Myitkyina Township people were given PRE-TICK "Yes" vote ballots in advance.

While 100,000 people died and over 1 million people are homeless because of cyclone Nargis, these junta not interest of saving people, they only thinking about how to cheat the vote for the referendum!! They are worst then the evil

Don't let Junta cheat you.

TO All the Humanitarian Aid Organizations, the Humanitarian Agencies, and the International Government Bodies,

Probably all of you had already got this information mentioned below;..
"Burma wants supplies but not foreign aid workers, its foreign ministry says, hours after the UN chief urged military leaders to prioritise relief work. "

Why does the Junta so scare to allow the Aid workers and experts come into Burma? Why?

Don't let them cheat all of you. Just don't give them the supplies without any supervisions otherwise All the Supplies means for the Cyclone Nargis Victims will ended up in the military stock pile and eaten by their soldiers, make profit by the commanders and the money donated will go to the generals' Bank account.

We had been experience this so many times BEFORE, the computers which were donated for the civilians universities were ended in the military academies, medical equipments which were for the civilian Hospitals were ended in the military hospitals, UNDP (United Nation Development Programme) funded scholarships were taken by the Military personals, cheated the UNDP authorities by changing their Title from Colonel, Major, Captain so and so to U(means Mr. in Burmese) so and so , Director/deputy Director of so and so dept., etc

So please beware and don't let them cheat all of you and divert supplies for the Cyclone victims to their Military barracks.

These idiot Junta said they can manage the distributions by themselves, now already 1 week had been passed, what did they do..people are starving and dying. (Please Read "Encountered bad experience .... article below)

Now it is time for the UN peace keeping forces to enter Burma(by force if necessary) to save our Burmese people. All the civilians will welcome the UN forces for sure.

Encountered Bad Experience while try to donate supplies to Cyclone victims

Source: From Ko Htike C box

I found this comment posted in the C box by someone, his/her own experience of (when went to donate food to the cyclone victims) how the Junta's Thugs prevented people to donate supplies to victim and try to take credit for themselves as they are the one who make the donations.

Actually the gov should do something , they said they are helping to ေလေဘး ဒုကၡသည္ (cyclone victims).I just want to share my own experience , our (xxxx) embassy families went to ဒုကၡသည္ (Cyclone victims) camp to distribute food and rice .

The ‘Kyant Phount ’ (the Junta's organized Thugs Terrorist group)did not allow us to enter to campus . They told us to leave the food with them , they don’t allow any outsiders . How are we going to help them , they don’t have enough man power to support to people but they don’t allow others to help . How stupid are they ?

We don’t believe to ‘Kyant Phount’ , is we give $1 , 50 cents will go to their pocket and 50 cent will go to people .

We saw U Kyaw Thu(Famous Actor who is doing charity work with his own money) from ‘Nar Yay’ organization too . They came to distribute rice for people . But the ‘Kyant Phount’ did not allow them to enter and asking to hand over rice to them .

We went to ‘Hlaing Tharyar’(Shanty town just outskirt of Rangoon, one of the worst hit area) and meet with some people they said they haven’t receive any aid .

Now the whole world sees the JUNTA true color.

Cyclone Nargis hit Burma already a week ago and started showing the real damage, so far 100,000 people died and millions(many millions for sure) were homeless and nothing to eat and nowhere to stay.

All the countries ready to help the Burmese people. They are waiting at the Thailand Bangkok Airport ready to ship Tons and Tons of supplies to Burmese people. {According to the latest report they just allow one UN flight to Land at Rangoon after one week the cyclone hit Burma!! believe it or not!!}

What the military Junta doing .. NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. They asked the AID workers to apply for VISA who come and help their Burmese people. They even close the Embassy in Bangkok today(Thai Public holiday). Do they have time for the Holiday while their own Burmese people are DYING. What Kind of Devil these Military People are?

These Military Junta they don't interest in saving their Own people from Dying. They Don't care about the Millions of Burmese people are Homeless and Nothing to eat, No shelter, NO food.

But these Junta are planing. But they are NOT Planing about how to save and help the Burmese People. They are ONLY planing how to get hold of the power when the international Aid people are coming.(They think international Aid Agency and volunteers as an invasion force!!!). They are planing how to gain Politically from the Cyclone Nargis, How to make the their names and their faces become Popular by standing in front of TV camera and giving food to cyclone survivors. They are planning how to RELABEL on the supplies which were sent by international Aid organization with their own name so that it looks like the supplies were send by them(by doing so they(junta) think Burmese people will start thinking the Generals as saviours and vote "YES" to their "so called" draft constitution)

And where is Gen. Than Shwe the "so called" country leader? Already one week passed, even not saying single word about the Cyclone, not a single word he felt sorry for the people. No where insight.(probably hiding and packing his properties which were stolen from the countries, probably he might think it is beginning of the end, as like others generals he might think the invasion forces(International Aid Organizations) are coming. (Probably he will come out on TV tomorrow and say pity for the victims after he was informed about my article, like as they always do, trying to prove their critics are wrong!!)

Now the whole world see these Than Shwe and his generals and his followers true colors.

Don't talk about whether they interest or not in Democracy and Human Rights.

THEY DON"T EVEN INTEREST 100,000 OF THEIR OWN BURMESE PEOPLE DYING. THEY DON'T INTEREST MILLIONS OF THEIR OWN BURMESE PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS AND NOTHING TO EAT AND DYING, HUNGRY, THIRSTY AND STARVING.

WHAT THEY ONLY INTEREST IS HOW TO SECURE THEIR POWER, HOW TO HOLD ON TO THEIR POWER. HOW TO MAKE POLITICAL GAIN OUT OF CYCLONE NARGIS. HOW TO POSE IN FRONT OF TV CAMERA DISTRIBUTING OTHER PEOPLE DONATIONS AS THEIRS.

Where are the soldiers who killed monks and people in last year September 2007. That time thousands of them came quickly all over the cities and countries to kill people. Now where are they(Military) to clean up the damages and debris? Where are their Thugs who beat up monks and students last year? No one in sight. They always says they protect the country where are they now? Are they protecting the country or the generals?

If you look at the TV news from the international media, you can see all the cleaning up were/are done by the civilians and monk themselves. No army no authorities came and help especially in Rangoon(They(junta) hate people from Rangoon because they think Rangoon people always up against them.)

Now Military Junta showing their TRUE COLORS very clearly to the world. Now the world know what kind of these people are. They(Junta) are worst than the evil.

WHO IS DOING THE REAL WORK? THE PEOPLE AND THE MONKS OR THE GENERALS? SEE FOR YOURSELF AT THE PICTURES.

(All the Photos are copyright to the respective News Agency(s), Organization(s) and individuals)

View of Burma from NASA Satellite before and after the Cyclone

OPB able to collect Singapore Dollars 62997.10

Source: Linlet's Blog http://linletkyalsin.blogspot.com/

According to the announcement make by the Overseas Burmese Patriots Organizations(Singapore), Totel amount of Donation money collected were S$62997.10 within 5 days(4 May to 8 May). Some of the members of the OPB today take a morning flight to Burma together with the supplies and they will directly go to Latbutta Town which was considered as worst hit area.

Here is the Translation of the OPB annpuncement in details.

(Click on the photo to read the Statement in Original Size)

Statement of Overseas Burmese Patriots Organization(Singapore)

http://www.overseasburmesepatriots.org/

Date: 08 May 2008

The donations which were collected at City Hall, Penisular Plaze and other places by the OPB members on the 8 May 2008 were as follows:

Lin Let Donation Centre: S$ 2080.80

SinMyanmar Donation Centre: S$12352.50

ThapyayNu Donation Centre: S$ 1090.00

Total collection for today 08 May 2008 is S$15523.80

Total amount ofDonations Collected between 04 may to 07May 2008 are S$47473.30

The Total donations up to date (from 4 May 2008 to 8 may 2008) is S$62997.10

One behalf of the Burmese Cyclone Victims, OPB like to thanks all the Burmese people working in singapore and greatly aprreciate their willingness to help without hesitation.

We will continue open the Donation centre at the following places;

Penisular Plazar

2nd floor; Lin Let Store

3rd floor; SinMyanmar

4th floor; City Point Store

5th floor ThapyayNu Store

Other Places

- Eunos Monestry

- Jurong East Sit thu Gyi Sore

- Boonlay Shwe Tharaphu Store

- Clementi KaungZone Store

For enquiry:

Ko Aye Ko Ko (HP) 96352064

Ko Win Kyaw (HP) 81898420

Ko Soe Htun (HP) 94874413

Ko Min Thein (HP) 81860042

Ko Nyi (HP) 98741979

Ko Thuraun Win (HP) 81868156

Ma Lei Lei (HP) 92726744

Overseas Burmese Patriots

(Singapore)

How Low they are? Junta take political gain out of Nargis

You must be already familiar with the regular news about how Junta not allow international Humanitarian Aids workers come into Burma or the Junta initially reject the offered from UN. Some of you will wonder how come? the country was badly hit by the cyclone and the country ruler rejected the Humanitarian Aids offer from other countries.

As for Burmese, these things are nothing news, these are the Junta STANDARD PROCEDURE. They want the Grass root people of Burma seen them as Saviors of them.

Like the way they always practice. Whenever there were donations from others countries for the natural disasters victims, what they(junta) did was they didn't allow the Aid workers from donation countries came along with the supplies. Why? There is 2 reasons for this.

First reason; They(junta) didn't want the donation countries people know that they RELABEL the donations supplies as donate from the generals or the various Military Divisions.(so that they can take credit as a donors to the general Public)

Second reason; If they(junta) allow the Humanitarian Aid workers go to the disaster area, the local people will start knowing that the military cannot handle the situation that's why people from other countries come and help. They Junta don't want this. What they want is, to make the people think that they(military) are the only organization that help them(public).

They have been practise like this for so many years. (That is one of the reason, the junta cutoff its people with outside world)

Now look at the recent TV from Myanmar Television. Instead of showing how much damage or how much people suffered, the TV showed the General stood in front of the people and giving token supplies and also showed the supplies Boxes with the names of the Generals on it as all these supplies were donated by them.

How low they are, they used the Cyclone disaster as the opportunity for their political gain and their popularity.

If they really care about the Burmese people, let the International Aid agency come into Burma, like the way Indonesia allowed the aid workers to come to Indonesia freely during tsunami.

JUNTA, I CHALLENGE YOU..if you REALLY CARE about our BURMESE PEOPLE allow the Aid workers come into Burma FREELY.

People died everywhere and people need help, Forget about all these DAMN Politics.

Where are ThanShwe and his Thugs?

Source: http://komoethee.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post_5457.html

Translated by Naychiu(http://whoiswhoinburma.blogspot.com/)

But Where Are Than Shwe And His SPDC Members?
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "very much alarmed" by news of the high death toll, vowing that the world body would "do whatever (necessary) to provide urgent humanitarian assistance."

And many other Governments around the world pledged help for a country that has more often earned the ire of the international community, not least for keeping democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in detention for much of the past two decades. ......................................................................................But where is Than Shwe , the head of the state and his SPDC (state peace and development council) members? Perhaps too busy ordering soldiers, paid for by the people of Burma, to guard their enormous mansions and other personal properties?

(Full Translation you can read here .. http://whoiswhoinburma.blogspot.com/2008/05/but-where-is-than-shwe-and-his-spdc.html )

Rangoon In the middle of the Hurricane

Source:http://myomyintaungmm.blogspot.com/

(This is the translation from the Article posted on the Myomyintaungmm Blog)

You can read compilations of all the news reports from various sources about Rangoon hit by the cyclone Nargis at the this link: http://hurricanehunters.blogspot.com/ !!!!)

Rangoon in the Middle of the storm

On the road of Rangoon people were running with their belongings and tried to stop all the cars passed by.

The local eye witness who was fortunately able to contact explained that "Rangoon was totally devastated" hysterically repeated again and again.

The person who looked around the Rangoon after the rain stop said he couldn't dare to go another 1 km and turned back because he didn't bare to see the total destruction of the Rangoon city. The big tress and the Big sign Board were felled on the road and the houses everywhere.

The person continued that he had never seen like this in his whole life.

According to the sources from Rangoon, Kyauktan town which was near by Rangoon had more destruction.

In Rangoon, at Sanchaung Township, all the zinc roofs were Flying in the air and the sky was red colour.

The Cyclone started around Friday midnight and still going strong till now(Saturday morning 3 May 2008). All the electricity and telephone line were cut off and all the zinc roofs were flying around in the air and there were a big loud strange noises.

The were more destruction in Irrawaddy division and expected high causality.

Near Hanthawadi circle(near the Burma Broadcasting and TV stations), the big trees were uprooted and all the big sign board were felled apart and the wind was still strong and there were no government Municipal people to clear the Road and the debris.

All the satellite dishes were destroyed and all the zinc roofs were spread everywhere. No one dared to go outside and even there were not a single dog nor cat on the street.

The rain drops moved HORIZONTALLY like the steam from the cattle pot. Since the roof are destroyed people were the nailed the door from outside and locked the door and stayed in their houses with fear.

Since people were not expected that the cyclone was that big, no one prepare to stock up the food and there might be a danger of food shortage everywhere.

Deadly cyclone changes face of Myanmar's biggest city

Source: http://hurricanehunters.blogspot.com/

You can read compilations of all the news reports from various sources about Rangoon hit by the cyclone Nargis at the this link: http://hurricanehunters.blogspot.com/ !!!!)

(Re-posted from Hurricanehunters Blogsite)
Feature: Deadly cyclone changes face of Myanmar's biggest city YANGON, May 3 (Xinhua) --

(Click on the photos to see it bigger)

Some people in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon were busy with cutting and clearing fallen trees Saturday afternoon in the wake of a midnight-to-noon violent and deadly cyclone storm Nargis, which Yangon residents have never experienced in the past six decades.

Taking the interval that the cyclone stopped on Saturday afternoon, housewives were also seen rushing for food after they were trapped for over 10 hours at home without food from Friday midnight when the Nargis, which occurred on the Bay of Bengal, stormed the under-developed old capital.

The terrible cyclone, at a wind speed of about 192 kilometers per hour, has almost totally devastated the former capital.

Major infrastructures related to municipality, telecommunications, transport, electric power and water supply as well as private apartment buildings were hard hit by the severe cyclone.

Observers here estimate that it needs years of endeavors to rebuild the city.

On Friday midnight, the Nargis started to emerge amid warning. As the storm wind became stronger, people woke up to witness the onslaught of the cyclone all night. With wind blowing sound turning louder, many zinc roofs atop various buildings were torn off one after another, falling on streets amid the heavy rain.

Windows were crushed, satellite dishes were stricken to deformation, dropping from atop.

Almost all giant commercial advertisement signboards were even blown to pieces scattering on the streets. Unable to withstand the strong wind, many big and old-aged trees on the streets, gardens and private residences fell one after another, turning Yangon into a forest city overnight.

The storm also cut off electricity in the city. Buses stopped running and all flight and train schedules were suspended.

The Nargis has lashed coastal regions of the country's southwestern Ayeyawaddy division since Friday morning, covering Haing Gyi Island, Pathein, Myaungmya, Laputta, Mawlamyinegyun, Kyaiklat, Phyarpon and Bogalay. The State Radio confirmed in a night broadcast that some of these areas were almost totally destroyed.

Up to five vessels capsized in the Yangon Port, and an investigation is underway for casualties and loss. Meanwhile, Myanmar declared three divisions Yangon, Bago and Ayeyawaddy and two states Kayin and Mon as natural-disaster-hit regions.

A national central committee for prevention of natural disaster was also formed with Prime Minister General Thein Sein as Chairman to promptly and effectively carry out relief and resettlement tasks.

xinhuanet.com
posted by moderator Londen time 11:14 PM

3000 Miles Walk for freedom update

Source: http://88portland.wordpress.com/

Reposted from the Walk for Freedom Blogsite

63 days of walking Athein and Zaw min htwe walked 1720 miles , they are walking 25 or 27 miles a day on I-30 Small High way in Nebraska State .

At the moment they are heading to East Nebraska and Iowa border, they will reach on the border in next 3 weeks of walking in this months on May . 1,500 Miles left to walk in next 2 or 3 months till they arrive to New York United Nation security council . They will rest in Iowa State for few days and Join with Iowa Burmese community .

(click the image to see the Larger photo)

On August 8, 2008, Athein will present the following petition to the offices of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, and the UN Security Council. As the Burmese military junta is preparing to consolidate its power through a new constitution and referendum, it is essential that the international community and the United Nations act to protect the lives and liberty of the Burmese.

Please sign the petition and add your voice to those calling for freedom and human rights in Burma.

(For those who haven't signed the petition yet, Please click this link http://www.petitiononline.com/walkfree/petition-sign.html and sign for the Petition.

Thanks for your Support. .. Bay Dah)

Help us Raise A Million voices of Support for Burma in 30 days

Raise A Million voices of Support for Burma in 30 days


Campaign started yesterday 01 May 2008. Hollywood actors and actress including Will Ferrell and Sylvester Stallone have joined a monthlong video campaign to win support for jailed Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

(Day 01, 01 May 2008))Comedy film star Ferrell's appeared in a brief online video on Thursday the first of 30 daily Web video spots designed to raise the profile of Suu Kyi, the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

(Day 02, 02 may 2008) Jennifer Aniston Talked her support (see the video at below Link)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1517481413/bclid1527697194/bctid1532997944

You can give your voice support as one of the millions voices in 30days at this link

http://burmaitcantwait.org/burmaitcantwait/


Related Articles about this campaign (please read below)
Source: Reuters

Activists tap celebrity power for Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi
Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:29pm EDT

By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hollywood actors including Will Ferrell and Sylvester Stallone have joined a monthlong video campaign to win support for jailed Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Comedy film star Ferrell's appearance in a brief online video on Thursday will be the first of 30 daily Web video spots designed to raise the profile of Suu Kyi, the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The videos depart from the standard humanitarian appeal formula with offbeat and ironic skits to draw the attention to the plight of Suu Kyi and the people of the Southeast Asian country, formerly called Burma. (Full story here)

Give your Voice as One of the Million Voice here
http://burmaitcantwait.org/burmaitcantwait/

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ွုၿမန္မာ ဘေလာက္ဂါ မၽား သို႕ ပန္ ၾကားခ်က္ နွင္႕ အကူအညီ ေတာင္း ခံ ၿခင္း

Cultural anthropology and political science မဟာသိပၸံ သင္ၾကားေနေသာ ဂၽာမန္နိုင္ငံမွ ဂၽာမန္ေက်ာင္းသူတစ္ဦးက မဟာသိပၸံ စာတန္း အတြက ္ "The bloggers' community and cyber activism of Burmese people in Burma and the diaspora, especially during and after the "saffron revolution".(Democracy လိုလားေသာ ၿမန္မာ bloggers မၽား ရဲ႕ Saffron Revolutions အတြင္း နွင္႕ Saffron Revolution အၿပီး လွုပ္ရွားမွု နွင္႕ ကမ ၻာ အနွံ့႕ သတင္း ၿပန္႕နွံ႕မွုအ ေၿခ အ ေန နွင္႕ Blog sites မၽား အ ေၿခ အ ေန)(Blog site recently posting country လက္ ႐ိွ ေရာက္ေနေသာနိင္ငံ၊ မည္ သည္႕ နိင္ငံတြင္ ၿမန္မာ bloggers မည္ မၽွရွိသည္္ ကို သိ ရန္ သာၿဖစ္ပါ သည္။
မည္ သည္႕Blogsite ၊ မည္ သည္႕နိင္ငံ တြင္ရိွ သည္ ကိုမေဖၚၿပပါ (Fully confidential)

အဓိကသိလိုခၽက္ က ေတာ႕
- Blogsite ေထာင္ ရ ၿခင္း ရည္ရြယ္ခၽက္ နွင္႕ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လွုပ္ရွားမုမၽား ကို သင္႕ blogsite တြင္ တင္ၿပရၿခင္း အေၾကာင္းရင္းမ်ား ၊ ကမ ၻာ႕ လူထု ၏ Myanmar Bloggers မၽား အေပၚ အၿမင္ နွင့္ တံု႕ ၿပန္ မွု အေၿခအေန၊(What are the aims, thoughts of your blogs and how is the perception of the world public?)

- ဘာ ေတြ ကို ေၿပာင္း လဲ ေပး နိုင္ ခဲ႕ သ လဲ။ (What has changed? )

- On line(Internet) ဆက္ သြယ္မွုမၽား ေၾကာင္႕ ဘာ ေတြ ကို ေၿပာင္း လဲ မွု ေတြ ႐ိွ ပါ သ လား (Has anything changed due to the online-communication?)

Photos and Eye witness account of Voting scene in front of Burmese Embassy, Singapore on 27 April 2008

Source:http://linletkyalsin.blogspot.com/
This is the translation of the Ma Linlet Kyalsin Articles about the voting experience in front of Burmese Embassy on the 27 April 2008 (sunday). you can read the original post in Burmese here: http://linletkyalsin.blogspot.com/2008/04/no.html

On the 27 April 2008, under the bright sunny day light even though it was a rest day(Sunday) for other people but for self motivated Burmese patriots it was a day of the show of the united strength of democracy loving people. Some wearing Red tee-shirt with a word “NO” printed on the front and the back and some wearing red cap were slowly gathering and filling up the narrow road leading towards the Burmese Embassy.

All these Burmese patriots line up both side of the road in orderly manner waiting for their name to be called by embassy staff to vote inside the embassy compound. After the noon time the crowd grew up to 4000 and the queue line was almost up to the Tangling Mall traffic light which was about ½ kilometer from the Burmese embassy.

The embassy staffs were calling the voter names from 9:00am in the morning till 1:00pm in the afternoon but they stop the voting process from 1 pm to 4pm. They didn’t make any announcement; they didn’t concern anything about their fellow countrymen who were waiting patiently under the hot sun just to vote for their true feeling about the draft constitution which was written by the junta without the listening to the people voices and desire. Singapore police forces were also out in full force to check the situation between voters and embassy staff.

To see the scene of some youth from OPB (Organization of Patriotic Burmese, Singapore) distributed water among the voters make you to feel proud as a Burmese people. It showed the unity of Burmese people against the military Junta. Around 4:00pm voters were allowed to vote again but some voters who were wearing red tee-shirt with “No” word were not allowed to go inside for vote unless they took out their tee-shirts.

But some students only wearing the tee-shirt as their tops and nothing underneath it so the embassy staff finally and RELUCTANTLY allow them to wear the red tee-shirt while they voting. A moment later the in-charge of the voting came out from the office and announced that there were no more voting due the SHORTAGE of BALLOTS and they have to order again from Burmese capital and it will only continue on 28 and 29 April until late night.

When the voters asked to announce that arrangement officially by putting a notice on the Embassy wall and notice board, there were no replies from Embassy authority!!! For last three days total numbers of Burmese people who managed to vote were not even thousand and according to the one embassy staff, Embassy sent out about 15,000 invitation letters to Burmese people in Singapore to come for voting, now after not more than thousands voted, the were no more ballots!!! Did they expect that only few hundred will come and vote?

Is that means they didn’t even prepare for the ballots for 10,000 people even though they sent out 15,000 invitation letter. Did they purposely doing this as per their cunning way of doing things?????

The Burmese Buddhist Monks who were in Singapore came to support the voters, were warmly welcome and pay respect by the crowd which make the scene to reflect back the time of saffron revolution.

Around 6:00pm everyone stand up and sang the National Anthem from their heart and ended their day.

The sunlight was slowly fading and the evening become darker but for the Burmese people, who were wearing Red Tee-shirt to show the feeling against the Junta, inside their heart and mind and inside their soul the patriotism, nationalism and unity will bright for eternity and even the darkest night cannot stop that brightness from their hearts.