An urgent appeal to the world

Aug 30th, 2007

An urgent appeal to the world 

I am Amyotheryei U Win Naing, a seventy year old pro-democracy activist in Burma. On 19 August two of my associates and me were attacked by a group of government thugs on our way back from a rice distributing trip to the starving people in suburban quarters of

Yangon.

Three days later people came out onto

Yangon streets demonstrating against rising food prices and hike in gas and patrol prices. They were attacked by the government’s thugs too. Still people continue to come out on the streets.

In the last seven days, seventy to one hundred Burmese citizens through out the country have been forcibly taken into custody by thugs acting in collaboration with military government officials.

Burma is under thugs’ rule now.

We are not protected by laws or ethical or moral practices any longer.  

Burmese people have become the most vulnerable people in the world against inhuman attacks by the officially sponsored gangsters-like goons.

I most urgently appeal to the world to come to the Burmese people’s protection.

People are now taking to the streets asking for adequate living conditions and survival. They are not asking for removable of the present military government.

There are estimated one hundred thousand families in

Yangon sub-urban area alone who are missing meals. Many are trying to survive on one meal a day. Some on boiled rice liquid alone because they could not effort to have enough rice to feed every member of the family.

My group and I tried to help these starving people by donating rice to them as many as possible, as much as possible and military government’s goons with the support of the officials are stopping us.

I am appealing to UN and the world governments to do something about this. I want to go back to the needy people and provide them with rice and basic food. I have donors to back me up and what I now need is protection from the government’s goons who have already attempted on my life and my associates’ lives as well.

This morning I received a report that a young man in Hlaingtherer quarters about eight miles from downtown

Yangon hanged himself because he could not have rice for his family. May be I could have stopped him from hanging if I were allowed to provide rice to him and others. This is just one incident of its kind and I am very much concerned that more would follow.

Please help me and my group to resume our philanthropic works. Make the ruling military government allow me to donate rice freely to the needy people.

I am doing this on humanitarian grounds and my action is not politically motivated.

It is just a simple act of helping people from dying of starvation.

I need your help now. We all need your help now.

Thank you. 

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