Long Peace Walk Latest Update (05 Jan 2008) Afternoon

Source: Ashin Mettacara

Link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Burmese Monks are now having a lunch at the beach of Ambalagoda. On the way, local lay people paid respect to the monks and donated king coconut and water. Reportedly the car is full of coconuts. (More Photos and full article please visit this link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/ )

Latest News about Long Peace Walk

Source: Ashin Mettacara's Blog: Link:

http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka have arrived at the Janandananamya Temple, praying for the Burma by reciting Metta Sutta and offering flower to the Buddha. Ven. Aggadhamma said that everying is okay and they are very delighted to see local people are helping , security are guarding on the way the walk. Temple where the Burmese Monks staying will make for breakfast for tomorrow morning and lunch will be donated by the local Buddhists. The monks will continues to march from Hikkaduwa to Aluttgama at 7am in tomorrow(5 January 2008).

(Please visit Ashin Mettecara Blog for More update news and Photo. Link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/ )

Pictures of today(4 January 2008) protest in Political Prisoner uniform

(Pictures are from Dr. Lun Swe and Moemaka blog. Please give credit to these blogs )

To read the Full news in Burmese, please go to this

link:http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

Please read the News below for both in Burmese and in English click here

Protesters wearing Prisioners uniforms and Protest in Rangoon Today

Source: Ko Nicknayman: Link: http://koniknayman.blogspot.com

Friday, January 4, 2008

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသမားမ်ားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ဆႏၵျပ။

ယခုႏွစ္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန ့တြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ရုံးတြင္ ႏွစ္ (၆၀) ေျမာက္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန ့အခမ္းအနားက်င္းပရာတြင္ တက္ေရာက္သူ (၁၂၀၀) ခန္ ့ရွိေႀကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ ထို ့အျပင္ ရုံးခ်ဴပ္ေရွ ့တြင္ အဖြဲ ့၀င္ (၁၂) ဦးမွ အေပၚေရာင္တြင္ အျပာႏုႏွင့္ ေအာက္တြင္ ပုဆိုးအျပာရင့္ေရာင္မ်ား၀တ္ဆင္ကာ ေက်ာေနာက္ဘက္တြင္ (ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသမားမ်ားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္) စာလုံးမ်ားအား တစ္လုံးခ်င္းစီ ေရးသားထားကာ ဆႏၵျပႀကပါသည္။ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရမွဳသတင္းမရွိေသးပါ။ ဆႏၵျပမွဳႀကာျမင့္ခ်ိန္မွာ (၁၅) မိနစ္ခန္ ့ရွိပါသည္။

Translation: Protest to release Political Prisoners

About 1200 people attended this year 60th anniversary of Burma Independance day organized by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD Party infront of NLD party headquarter. 12 NLD members dressed like a political prisoners in dark blue sarong and light blue tops with a sentence "Release Political Prisioners in No time" with each word on the back of the each member.

So far no arrest was carrried out yet and the demostartion took about 15 mins.

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Source : Dr Lun Swe Blog
To read the Full news in Burmese, please go to this link:
http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

4 Jan 08, 11:17
ယေန႔ ေန႔ခင္း ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႔ စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ေန႔ခင္း ၁၂ နာရီတြင္ ေရႊဂုံတိုင္လမ္း၌ အက်ဥ္းသား ေထာင္ပုံစံ ၀တ္စုံမ်ားျဖင့္ လူအမ်ား တန္းစီးျပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လႊတ္ေပး ဆိုသည့္ စာတမ္းကို ဆြဲလွ်က္ စီတန္းလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။

Translation:
Today(4 January 2008) noon time, at Shwe-gon-dine Road, Rangoon, People wearing prisoner clothes and doing walking protest carrying banner demanding to release political prisoners.

More detail in Burmese read at the DVB link:

http://burmese.dvb.no/news.php?id=3423

Latest Update News about Long Peace March by The Burmese Monks

Photo taken: at 12:34 pm local time: 1 Kilometer away from Hikkaduwa City

Now the procession arrived Hikkaduwa City and the monks are walking in the city. Proudly, the Sri Lanka National Television programs are continuously showing our walking campaign.

More Photos at : Ashin Mettacara Blog: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Sri Lanka Long Peace Walk Update

Source: MSMA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/

You can read Full news in Burmese at this link:
http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_4835.html

Over 50 Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka, at 7:00am today (4 January 2008), praying metta prayer and marching towards City Hall, Galle City toward City Hall Galle for the opening ceremony of Long Peace Walk. The ceremony which was stsrting at 8:00 am in front of the City Hall, Buddha square. The ceremony was attended by the Principle Abbot of Galle Buddhist Council Ven. Chandakumara,Ven. Pannaratana and monks, Gelle region police chief Mr. Keerthie. D- Silva (S. S. P) and others responsible personals and over 200 Citizens from Gelle city.

The ceremony was opening by reciting "Namaw Satha" prayer 3 times by the attendees. The public and monks recite the peace prayer for the Peace in Burma and for the World Peace. Also offering flowers and candles.

After that, Chief Monks take turns give speeched for the Peace in Burma and peace in the world. On behalf of the Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka, Ashin Thura Wuntha explaining about the reason of the Long Peace Walk.

Ashin Thura Wuntha explain that 4 January is the 60th Anniversary of Burmese Independence from British Colony but Burma is still under Military Junta Dictatorship for 45 years. Current Military Dictator practise only interest to hold their power and for the sake of to prolong their their power as long as possible, the military Junta is killing, arresting, torturing its own people without considering any Human Rights at all.

Especially in September 2007, Military arrested more than 4000 monks and killed almost 40 monks inhumanely, who were (for the sake of the Burmese public) ,reciting Metta prayer and carried out peaceful walking demonstration to show the people desire and demand.

Because of this, The intention of the today Long Peace Walk by the overseas Burmese monks is to make the World aware of the suppression in Burma and participate to help Burmese people in peaceful way.

More Photos of Long Peace Walk at Ashin Mettacara Blog:

http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/