Vote For 2007 YouTube Video Award

Monks Praying Soldiers Shooting In Burma video is nominated for YouTube 2007 Video Award in Eyewitness Category.

Please Visit the site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0heX0k8pnB0 or (Just double click on the video) and vote for this Video. Your Support is important for the Saffron Revolution 2007.

Voting ended 19 March 2008(sorry just found out, you can still vote until midnight of 19 March 2008)

Just to watch the video click on the play button.

Through the Snow and the Storm

Source: http://88portland.wordpress.com/ (Main website for Walk for freedom)

Athein and Zaw Min Htwe will walk 3000 miles journey .


No Matter What .. Through the Snow and Storm they are going to walk 3000 miles Journey from Portland Oregon to New York City for the Freedom of their beloved country Burma which was colonized by the Military Dictators since 1962.




It is already 16 days since they started their Walk for Freedom and they had already cover 330miles.(1/10 of their Journey)

Please support them by visiting to their Walk for Freedom website. On their main website you can see their progress in deatil and day to day update of their Journey's Video which was taken along the way.

I salute both of you with my full respect and admiration.

Walk on..Walk on ..with hope in your heart.. and you'll never walk alone. We all behind you and support you.

I will update their progress daily

Does it sound and look Familiar??

Source: The news was reposted from Mail.com


Tibet Protests Spread to Other ProvincesSunday,
March 16, 2008 8:34:19 PM By CARA ANNA and TINI TRAN
(Tini Tran reported from Beijing. Associated Press writers David Wivell in Xiahe and Carley Petesch in New York contributed to this report.)

Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces Sunday as Tibetans defied a Chinese government crackdown, while the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland.Demonstrations widened to Tibetan communities in Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces, forcing authorities to mobilize security forces across a broad expanse of western China.In Tongren, riot police sent to prevent protests set off tensions when they took up positions outside a monastery. Dozens of monks, defying a directive not to gather in groups, marched to a hill where they set off fireworks and burned incense in what one monk said was a protest, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. (read full story here)

In a sign that authorities were preparing for trouble, AP and other foreign journalists were ordered out of the Tibetan parts of Gansu and Qinghai provinces by police who told them it was for their "safety."

Meanwhile, police in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, searched buildings as a Monday deadline loomed for people who took part in a violent anti-Chinese uprising last week to surrender or face severe punishment.

DOES IT SOUND AND LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU???? YOU GUESS?

The dictators are always the same no matter what skin colour they have, they act the same criminal acts.

How many deaths will it take till he knows ... That too many people have died

Yesterday, I went to see the Rambo movie, after the movie, I feel very sad and sorry for my country and for my fellow countyman, for all the enthics groups, for my fellow brothers and sisters. No Thanks to the Junta, now our country is INFAMOUS in the world for the WRONG Reasons.

When I arrived back home, I didn't know why, I feel very down and I just picked up my guiter and sang the "Bob Dylan" song "Blowin' in the Wind". It reflects me how I felt after I watch the Rambo movie about Burma. Here are the lyrics of this famous peace song "Blowin in the Wind".

You can also watch the Video of Bob Dylan live performance here.



Blowin' in the Wind
Copyright ©Lyrics and sang by Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

Dear Friends, Need your Action for these 6 men

Source: I copied this post from the who is who in Burma Blog

Thursday, 24 January 2008

Vicious Circle (An Appeal To Readers)
Dear ReadersI have drafted a letter to the ILO office, concerning the case of the 6 men who were sentenced to long term imprisonment. I strongly believe that this is one of the most unjust cases and therefore am trying to send it off to anywhere that I hope will be able to help.

I call it a 'Vicious Circle' because the nastiness seems going around all the time. Junta rules the country badly---people are impoverished--- junta force poor people to work for them ----people are frustrated---anger and rebellion leads to imprisonment --- appeals to international help, (like ILO)who are trying hard from outside ---- weak agreement reached---- junta carries on with forced labour ---- people turn to the only hope(the ILO-Junta agreement)-- attempts to use agreement and activate others ---- arrest by junta (ignoring agreement and using different laws) and imprisoned --- junta continues to intimidate and rule the country ---- and so on..... Unless we all help to break this vicious circle (this is only the ILO case, there are thousands more other 'circles' there), the country will continue to drown in shallow water and poor guys like those 6 will be forever ending up in prisons.

If you agree with my belief, could you please join in the action, to do something about this serious breach of basic human rights. I mean to send this to ILO offices. I also hope to do a petition or email circulation.

If you are good at IT and can create something please come forward to help. If you have better ideas, then propose them. If you have legal knowledge then advise us on some actions. My idea is to try as hard as possible to give pressure to the ILO and UN to help and support us.

What is the point of international organizations if they cannot intervene during such times when the breaches of basic human rights are so flagrant?

Many ThanksYours

sincerely
Nay Chi U

(Please send /email the below letter to ILO officials mentioned at the end of the post)

Date ...............

Dear Officials Could I please inform you of an unusual and distressing incident in Rangoon, Burma, which is reported in Scoop Politics Independent News. , tody. The report stated that 6 men were sent to long-term imprisonment; four, Thu Rein Aung, Wai Lin, Myo Min and Kyaw Min to prison terms of 28 years, and two others, Ko Kyaw Kyaw and Nyi Nyi Zaw each received sentences of 20 years.

This was their reward for their part in organising labour rights discussions at the American Centre in Rangoon last May Day.

As an International Labour Organisation could you therefore please take action to help these men as they did not commit any crime.

All they did according to the report was to organise labour rights discussions, perhaps trying to understand the announcement of ILO about the 'Understanding' reached with the Government of Myanmar.

[The GENEVA (ILO News) stated that the International Labour Office (ILO) announced today that it had concluded an Understanding with the Government of Myanmar designed to provide, as previously requested by the International Labour Conference and the ILO Governing Body, a mechanism to enable victims of forced labour to seek redress (Reference ILO/07/04) ].

It is obvious that although agreeing to such an 'Understanding', the military government in Burma will never publically issue this kind of announcement and it is up to people like those 6 men to assist in raising public awareness and assisting in educating ordinary people concerning their own rights.

Very sadly, the cunning military junta have also made their own laws to prevent such discussions and can always find ways to intimidate the public with the exemplary long-term prison sentences targetted at the deterrence of further action, which is in itself one of the junta's more crude abuses of basic human rights.

More worryingly, the news also reported that when contacted, the ILO office in Rangoon declined to comment. Could you please find out the situation of the ILO Rangoon office, in particular as to why they are unable to be more supportive to the the brave young people whom they have 'activated' ?

For the people of Burma who suffer the most cruel, blatant and unremitting repression under this ruling military junta, the international organisations like ILO and UN are the crucial and only lifeline. The people of Burma deserve the sound and reliable support of these agencies when it really counts, and whatever back-up and reassurance they can provide.

Could I there fore make an appeal to you to act and do everything in your power for the release of those 6 men immediately.

I understand that there are many thousands more in prisons, who were also unjustly captured there by the military government but this particular case, which is closely related to ILO and his work, could be a model for those in Burma who needs all the support and encouragement they can get to fight back the bully and abuse, subjected to them, in most systematic way. ("The Understanding provides that alleged victims of forced labour in Myanmar will have full freedom to submit complaints to the ILO Liaison Officer in Yangon. The Liaison Officer will then make a confidential preliminary assessment as to whether a case involves forced labour, in order that such cases can be investigated by the Myanmar authorities and appropriate action taken against the perpetrators.")

To read the agreement on 26 February 2007 of a Supplementary Understanding between the ILO and Burma (Myanmar) please click here.

ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Ms Sachiko Yamamoto
Regional DirectorUnited Nations Building,
11th FloorRajdamnern Nok Avenue
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2288 2295, 2288 1234 Fax: (66) 2288 3056 (direct), 2288 3062
Email: bangkok@ilo.org

Mr Guy Thijs
Deputy Regional Director
United Nations Building, 11th FloorRajdamnern Nok Avenue
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2288 2224, 2288 1234 Fax: (66) 2288 3056 (direct), 2288 3062
Email: bangkok@ilo.org

Mr William Salter
DirectorUnited Nations Building, 10th Floor,Rajdamnern Nok Avenue,
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2288 2219, 2288 2220 Fax: (66) 2288 3058
Email: SRO-BKK@ilo.org
SRO-Bangkok covers Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR), the Democratic Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Viet NamILO Liaison Office in Myanmar

Mr Stephen Marshall
Liaison OfficerNo. 1212-20,
Traders Hotel,
12th Flr.No. 223,
Sule Pagoda Rd., Kyauktada Township,
Yangon, Myanmar
Tel: (95 1) 242 393, 242 811Fax: (95 1) 242 594
Email: marshall@ilo.org

Office of the Director-General
Tel: +41.22.799.6026 Fax: +41.22.799.8533
E-mail: cabinet@ilo.org

Another Bomb Explosion in Burma! (Related Report) Are these work of Junta?

Source: International Herald Tribune : Asia - Pacific
Read the full story here:
(Explosion on Myanmar bus )

(Related Report)
Are Recent Burma Bomb Blasts Work Of The Junta?

Source:(http://www.mizzima.com/)
January 14, 2008 - The recent bomb blasts in Burma, including in former capital Rangoon could be a plot hatched by the junta to reunite its military. (Full Story)