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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.