Appeal letter to International Leaders
Sep 27th, 2007
Appeal letter to the
US President and EU leaders
To the US President and EU leaders,
Thank you all for supporting the democratization of Burma. Any UNSC resolution would be vetoed by the Russians and Chinese, by giving the excuse that they do not feel Burma, as a threat in the region and UNSC is not the proper forum or place to discuss Burma/Myanmar issue. As they are holding the veto power, there is no use to argue or reason with them any more. So instead of initiating a renewed attack at UNSC, where there are these two stubborn governments, who are not going to think twice to perpetrate the same atrocities even on their own citizens, are always willing to shield Myanmar Junta.
Yes, we need to tell Russia and China that they were right in stating that the UNSC is not the proper stage to discuss Myanmar issue. Therefore, we all need to request them to support the new resolution of UNSC to submit or propose the (ICC) International Criminal Court to accept the complaints about the alleged accusations of attempted Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing cases to investigate, start a prosecution and prepare for trial proceedings.
Sir Winston Churchill once said, “We must fail forward to success. Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Yes we must use our falling heroes; Monks, Burmese and foreign citizens’ sacrifices effectively to bring down the unjust, cruel SPDC criminals at the ICC.
The former Superman actor Christopher Reeve also said, “I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to preserve and endure in spite of overwhelming obstactles.”
I strongly believe that there are more than enough evidences for the indictment of SPDC Generals with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.
Depayin massacre alone could be enough for preliminary indictment. If combined with the atrocities in the ethnic minority areas and their religious persecutions, our indictments would strongly stand as the castle built on solid rock. SPDC Generals could not have any solid ground of defense and their defense would collapse like a hut built on quick sand.
If Russia and China are still opposing the above proposal, please kindly bring those Criminal SPDC Junta to the International Criminal Court for cold blooded killing of the Japanese photo-video Journalist.
The proof is already in the photographs and Video below. The whole SPDC from the Senior General Than Shwe to the soldier who had done the shooting are all equally guilty of this killing. The two serial, composite, extraordinary still pictures and video, attached at the end of this letter, from Rangoon, the Burmese capital, appear to show the cold blooded killing of a Japanese photographer cum video journalist, during the regime’s crackdown against pro-democracy protesters.
The first image shows a prone photographer – apparently injured – taking pictures of fleeing protesters as government troops approach. The SPDC soldier stands over him, pointing a gun at his chest although he was no threat to anyone, except for his camera, the pictures could show the proof of atrocities committed by SPDC soldiers. Myanmar soldier could easily grab the camera instead of killing almost pointblank on the chest.
In the second image, apparently taken just moments later, the photographer lies flat on the floor, his mouth contorted in pain. The soldier has moved on, clearly after firing the fatal shot into the chest of the Japanese video-Journalist. The military have also fired into sections of the crowd in the city with semi-automatic weapons not only to disperse the demonstrations but to kill. SPDC wish to intimidate the people of Burma that they mean business when they are not merely threatening with the words when they order the shoot to kill policy.
The first image shows a prone photographer – apparently injured – taking pictures of fleeing protesters as government troops approach. The SPDC soldier stands over him, pointing a gun at his chest.
In the second image, apparently taken just moments later, the photographer lies flat on the floor, his mouth contorted in pain. The soldier has moved on.
P.S.
This Youtube Video shows
Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai
‘being shot deliberately’
This Youtube Video shows Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai
‘being shot deliberately’
Times online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2550369.ece
Footage capturing the last, terrible seconds of Kenji Nagai’s life has been aired on Japanese television – horrifying a nation and raising official suspicion that the 50-year old photo-journalist was murdered by Burmese troops (writes Leo Lewis in Tokyo).
The shaky, indistinct moments of footage appear to show Nagai, who was on the edge of a crowd of panic-stricken demonstrators, shoved violently to the ground by a soldier and shot dead at point-blank range.
The crowd flees, leaving behind a visibly agonised figure believed to be Nagai – dressed casually in shorts and flip-flops – on his back in the street. In his right hand is a video camera, held above the ground to protect it from the fall.
A loud crack is audible as a soldier points his rifle at the prone figure before launching himself at the dispersing crowd of protesters.
A doctor at the Japanese embassy in Burma confirmed a bullet entered Nagai’s body from the lower right side of his chest, pierced his heart and exited from his back.
The footage, say Japanese experts, squarely contradicts the official Burmese explanation of Nagai’s death – that he was killed by a “stray bullet”.
In the few seconds before he was killed, Nagai appeared to being filming the Burmese military as it faced down the crowd. One of the soldiers seems to spot him doing so, and launches his deadly response.
Yasuo Fukuda, Japan’s Prime Minister, said that Tokyo would press the regime for a full explanation of Nagai’s death, nonetheless ruling out immediate sanctions against Burma.
Earlier, the Foreign Minister, Masahiko Komura said that the footage appeared to show that Nagai was slain deliberately by Burmese troops as they charged on a crowd of civilians. The government is to dispatch the deputy foreign minister to Burma to establish the truth behind Nagai’s death.
Japanese media are hailing Nagai as a heroic crusader for the truth. His elderly mother, who made a brief, tearful statement this afternoon, said that she begged her son not to go to Burma, but Nagai had simply told her that it was his job to go to places nobody else wanted to. “I wept through the night as I thought about my son,” she said, “his job always made me prepared for the worst, but every time he went away my heart would beat fast.”
Nagai’s father said that if his son had indeed been shot dead at point blank range, it was the cruelest way to die.
Japanese television stations today showed a montage of Nagai’s work – mostly video taken during conflicts in the Middle East. His photo-journalism focused heavily on the victims of any conflict he covered.
The largest foreign donor of overseas development aid to Burma, Japan has officially said it will not cut off aid to the military-run nation. But foreign ministry sources today told The Times that its multi-million dollar donations to the country were now under review.
In Rangoon today several thousand protesters took to the streets once more in defiance of the soldiers and riot police, who sealed off much of the city centre with barbed wire barricades.
Soldiers were stationed inside and outside five large monasteries whose monks had previously led the protests, and today none were allowed to emerge.
The protesters tried to make the best of the absence of much revered monks from the protests. “The monks have done their job and now we must carry on with the movement,” one told a crowd.
About 20 truckloads of soldiers broke up a demonstration of 2,000 civilians near the Sule Pagoda, beating them with clubs and firing into the air. Smaller protests in other areas turned into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game in the side streets.
One Western diplomat said: “There have been massive arrests, certainly in the hundreds. The death toll is certainly higher now.”
Bob Davis, the Australian Ambassador to Burma, said that the number of dead was probably “several multiples” more than the ten officially acknowledged by the Burmese authorities.
Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, called for an end to the violence and said he too was speaking to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Prime Minister and President Bush about the crisis.
“I condemn the violence that has been used against the unarmed Burmese protesters who have been exercising, with great bravery, their right to peaceful protest,” Mr Brown said in a statement.
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It has confirmed the identity of the dead man as Kenji Nagai, 50, from Tokyo. Nagai, a video journalist, worked for APF News Inc. based in Tokyo, which produces video news programs by freelance journalists, according to the company. Nagai was hit, along with other several people, by bullets fired by security forces while he was filming.
| Video Shows Japanese Journalist Shot at Close Range in Burma | |
By VOA News
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| This series of photos released by the Democratic Voice of Burma shows the sequence of events of Kenji Nagai’s death on the street in Rangoon |
Japanese television is airing a video that shows a Burmese soldier firing at a Japanese journalist during Thursday’s pro-democracy protests in Rangoon.
Pictures broadcast by the Fuji television network show a soldier pointing his rifle and shooting from close range. Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai was thrown to the ground, apparently shot in the chest. Later photographs of the scene indicate the 50-year-old man died there a short time later.
Burmese authorities originally said the Japanese victim was hit by a stray bullet. However, analysts who studied the video obtained by the Japanese network, from the Democratic Voice of Burma say the pictures squarely contradict the official version of events.
Japan’s authorities have sent a senior diplomat to Burma to press for a full explanation of Nagai’s death.
The pictures seen in Japan also have been posted on the Internet on youtube.
They show Burmese soldiers chasing protesters on Thursday near Rangoon’s Sule Pagoda. Nagai, who had been filming the scene at the edge of the crowd, is suddenly thrown to the ground from a sidewalk at the sound of a bang. Lying on his back, apparently wounded and unable to get up, the journalist moves his arms up and down, still gripping a video camera in his hand, while a soldier points a rifle at him at point-blank range.
Nagai worked for the Japanese photo and video agency APF.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:16 am
Please read this article http://burmadigest.info/2007/09/28/bravo-lets-march-forward/
Excerpt
As far as I know, real soldiers always wear boots on duty. I had even seen the various diseases of the feet of soldiers who never take off their boots, day and night, for almost six months. They rightly said that during the operations in the jungles, any type of emergency could come out; they do not want to be caught with bare foot.
The “soldier” who shot Kenji Nagai was curiously wearing the slippers. May be there is some truth in the repeated rumors that SPDC officers trained the convicted criminals to shoot the rifles (or semi-automatic machine guns) and given the stimulants like Amphetamines or Ecstasy pills to commit the atrocities like killing the monks and civilians. There are also repetitive reports that the SPDC soldiers are given the same stimulants like Amphetamines or Ecstasy pills to commit raping of ethnic minorities. I think this is the first time our world had witness a regular government soldier without boots. If that is true, the one who ordered or give the command would be more guilty then the actual perpetrators. This is a very important point to remind our prosecutors at ICC.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:22 am
Please read the following article to understand the proceedings of ICC
http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/bd/2007/2/25/e/soa.htm
Excerpt _
Crime against humanity
For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
According to the Commentary on the Rome Statute:
Isolated inhumane acts of this nature may constitute grave infringements of human rights, or depending on the circumstances, war crimes, but may fall short of meriting the stigma attaching to the category of crimes under discussion.
On the other hand_
(a) an individual may be guilty of crimes against humanity
(b) even if he perpetrates one or two of the offences mentioned above, or
(c) engages in one such offence against only a few civilians,
(d) provided those offences are part of a consistent pattern of misbehavior by a number of persons linked to that offender (for example, because they engage in armed action on the same side or because they are parties to a common plan or for any similar reason.)
(e) Consequently when one or more individuals are not accused of planning or carrying out a policy of inhumanity, but simply of perpetrating specific atrocities or vicious acts, in order to determine whether the necessary threshold is met one should use the following test:
(f) one ought to look at these atrocities or acts in their context and
(g) verify whether they may be regarded as part of an overall policy or
(h) a consistent pattern of an inhumanity, or whether they instead constitute isolated or
(i) sporadic acts of cruelty and wickedness.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:27 am
At least four journalists arrested in Rangoon, including Japanese daily’s correspondent by Reporters Without Borders
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23837
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association call for the immediate release of Min Zaw, the Burmese correspondent of the Japanese daily Tokyo Shimbun, and three young Burmese journalists, who are apparently being held incommunicado by the security forces. Their arrests bring the number of journalists detained in Burma to 10. At least a thousand people have been arrested since demonstrations began a month ago.
“One reporter killed, five others arrested and about 10 injured or harassed – the toll from the media’s attempts to cover the pro-democracy demonstrations mounts by the day,” the two organisations said. “The international community most do something to stop the repression and must demand the unconditional release of the detained civilians.”
The Japanese deputy minister who is due to arrive in Burma to investigate the murder of Japanese video reporter Kenji Nagai must also intervene with the authorities to get Min Zaw released as soon as possible, Reporters Without Borders and the BMA added.
Min Zaw, 56, was arrested at his Rangoon home on 28 September. The Associated Press reported that the authorities confiscated his mobile phone but let him take his medicine for diabetes and high blood pressure with him to prison. His family said all he did was cover the pro-democracy demonstrations. According to the AP, he is the son-in-law of leading journalist Sein Win, who is the correspondent of the Japanese agency Kyodo and a former AP reporter.
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar, of which Min Zaw is a member, yesterday called for his release in a letter to the authorities. Several other correspondents of foreign news media, including Reuters and Agence France-Presse, have been physically attacked or prevented from working during the past month.
The news website Irrawaddy reported that three other Burmese journalists – Kyaw Zeya Tun, 23, who works for the newspaper The Voice, Nay Lin Aung, 20, who works for the weekly 7 Day News, and an as yet unidentified female journalist employed by Weekly Eleven News – have been missing for several days. It is believed they were arrested when the military dispersed demonstrations.
A colleague of Kyaw Zeya Tun confirmed to Reporters Without Borders and the BMA that he has disappeared.
According to Burmese human rights organisations, at least a thousand people have been arrested since 19 August, the date of the first demonstration.
Reporters Without Borders and the BMA have learned from local sources that military censorship department, known as the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, is harassing editors to get them to bring out issues of their newspapers and magazines containing propaganda articles. Most privately-owned Burmese publication have not appeared or have been closed since the start of the crackdown.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:40 am
Appeal to the Japanese government and Japanese and Singapore people
Min Zaw, the Burmese correspondent of the Japanese daily Tokyo Shimbun,
Please do not just take action for your own blood Japanese journalist killed by SPDC Junta.
Please demand SPDC to release correspondent of the Japanese daily Tokyo Shimbun, Min Zaw.
Japanese government must give asylum to the whole family of Min Zaw. You can use this Burmese speaking journalist in other countries, e.g. ASEAN, where Burmese migrant workers are regularly exploited by local police, immigration and volunteer thugs in some countries.
Although we are sorry for the death Japanese, at least you have the courage. See the Singaporean was hit by the LIFE BULLET. Coward, greedy, Singapore government announced shamelessly that a Singaporean was hit by the RUBBER BULLET.
If they are right, accept my apology. But I suspected that SPDC NEVER use Rubber Bullet! Shame on you Singapore Kaisu Government. Singapore people must teach a lesson to their government if the bullet is proved not to be a rubber.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:47 am
Appeal to UN, US and Singapore law enforcement officers
Depayin Massacre Myanmar PM General Soe Win is in death bed in Singapore. May be He could understand his mistakes, crime and want to ask for forgiveness if he repented. He would be prevented by Burmese guards.
Please remove the Myanmar Guards and talk to him.
We could get the BEST EVIDENCE of the Depayin Massacre to try SPDC Junta, esp Sr Gen Than Shwe.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:29 am
Appeal to Chinese President Hu Jintao
Dear Sir,
Japanese Photographer Kenji Nagai was killed because the SPDC soldier thought he was a CHINESE. If he knew that that was Japanese he would not dare to shoot and kill.
So if you continue to support SPDC who never care your overseas Chinese, it is up to you. Please read the Wikipedia, Burmese Chinese if you want to know about the Massacre of Burmese Chinese at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_Chinese by the first Military Dictator, General Ne Win
October 1st, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Burmese opposition esp NLD must promise and guarantee the safety of all the SPDC Generals, soldiers, USDA, Swan Arrshin and their families.
U Kyi Maung’s speech of sending Military Generals esp General Khin Nyunt to Nuremberg had made the Generals scared to death and refused any negotiation.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi also failed to convinced the Generals. She said that she could forgive and forget but to take action on the perpetrators of atrocities, it is up to the victims and Burmese people. In stead of those words, she should give very strong guarantee by saying that if anyone wants to revenge the Myanmar Tatmadaw Generals and personals, she would personally defend. Even should use the words, over her dead body.
Now, if the SPDC Junta refuse the demands of UN, US, EU and Burmese opposition, they should be threatened with the ICC. But if they give in and start a reconciliatory process and allow Daw Suu led NLD and opposition, UN, US, EU and all the opposition should guarantee the safety of Myanmar Tatmadaw and SPDC Generals.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Please read the views of Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s views;
BURMA DIGEST: Do you see any sign of possible changes in Burma in a near future?
Dr Mahathir…Burma is of course not a democratic country and is ruled by the Military Junta. When that happens, it is very difficult to change because the Junta will feel unsafe if they give up power, actions could be taken against them.
This has happened in the case of Bangladesh when Ershad giveup power. He was jailed.
It had happened in South Korea when Chun Doo-hwan gave in to the democratic process, he was charged and he was actually sentenced to death.
And it also happened in Indonesia when Suharto agreed to the democratic process. Action had been taken to try and punish or to jail him.
So these models do not encourage authoratian rulers from giving up their power easily. So it is going to be very difficult to change the political culture of Myanmar/Burma.
Read the hole interview at http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/bd/2006/11/12/soa.htm
October 1st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
When I mention of the granting carpet amnesty and formation of Interim government together, some of my shortsighted comrades are angry and even accused me as SPDC admirer. They pointed about the sufferings of activists who sacrificed their lives, jailed, tortured, wounded, crippled, lost jobs etc.
I just pointed out to them that if they are powerful enough and could overthrow SPDC by force, go ahead. Now we are powerless, weak and we are not in any position to impose our will on SPDC by force. If we want them to transfer the power peacefully, we must negotiate and guarantee their safety.
And what is the use of hanging or punishing the dethroned dictators if we ignored the sacrificed activist. Just see Iraq. We must try to forget the incidence and give up the attempt to punish them even if we could not forgive the perpetrators.
Like the no fault compensation in some insurance schemes, the State of Burma/Myanmar should compensate all the sufferers, with lump some rewards, monthly pensions, giving employment, projects, land, shop-lots, interest free loans etc.
Then only it will be a win-win situation for all of us, including SPDC and Tatmadaw. After all we could not disband the 400,000 strong Myanmar Tatmadaw. Just look at what happens in Iraq. Not only the jobless ex-military could give trouble, our country’s security would be compromised. We need them to protect us from foreign aggressors and hard-line separatists to prevent the total disintegration of Burma/Myanmar.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Just the coincidence or quick reaction after reading my FIFTH COMMENT, SPDC urgently brought back PM General Soe Win. Read the following report from Mizzima_
Ailing Prime Minister to go back to Burma, Rangoon commander ousted
October 1, 2007 – Soe Win, the ailing Prime Minister of Burma may fly back to the country from Singapore this afternoon, sources said.
Lieutenant General Soe Win’s special flight will land in Rangoon at about 5 p.m.
“His condition is not good and he will die soon. He will be taken to the military hospital in Mingaladon,” sources close to the military said.
The Prime Minister, who is a Senior General Than Shwe loyalist, is notorious and had executed the Deepayin ambush on Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy, now under house arrest on May 2003.
” (Lieutenant General) Thein Sein will replace Soe Win when he dies and Tin Aung Myint Oo will replace Thein Sein as Secretary-I,” the sources added.
Source http://www.mizzima.com/MizzimaNews/News/2007/Oct/Oct-1-2007.html
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:33 pm
To President Hu Jintao,
China used to protect Myanmar at the UNSC with the veto, claiming that it does not want to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. But actually this protecting of the criminal SPDC with veto is actually against the majority (more than 80% according to the last election) of Burmese population’s interest. Because of this, Chinese Embassies around the world were protested.
Please change your policy of protecting or shielding the criminal SPDC at UNSC and international arena. If not, we are going to increase our campaign to boycott Chinese Olympics, support Taiwan Independence, Tibet’s struggle, Yunan Chinese Muslims, Turkic peoples of Xinjiang (Sin-kiang, Uyghur, East Turkestan or Urghurstan) Muslims, Kazakhs Hui Muslims, Kyrgyz Muslims, Uzbek Muslims, Tajik Muslims, Mongolian liberation and Falun Gong Buddhists’ freedom of religion.
Regarding the Beijing Olympics_
Forced evictions have increased as Beijing clears entire neighborhoods to make room for Olympic sites and to beautify the city. An official with the Beijing Municipal Administration of State Land, Resources and Housing has indicated that some 300,000 people are scheduled for relocation to accommodate beautification projects alone. With courts offering little protection, residents have banded together to protest collusion between developers and local officials who forcibly evict them from their homes or sell off the land they have been farming. Residents rarely win, in part because land is not individually owned. In mid-September, Beijing municipal authorities shut down over 50 unregistered schools for children of migrant workers, leaving tens of thousands of children without access to education. This followed a discussion by the authorities about ways to expel one-million migrant laborers from Beijing.
Please read more about Chinese government’s atrocities on its own citizens at http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/bd/2007/1/21/mhbdl.htm
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
China has more influence over Myanmar’s ruling generals than any other country. Indeed, without Chinese support, it is debatable whether the regime could sustain itself. So, while the current crisis is not of China’s making, any peaceful settlement may be possible only if China acts to support it.
China is thus facing an unwanted test of its claim to be a responsible stakeholder in the international community. With 3,000 villages destroyed and 1.5 million people already displaced in eastern Myanmar, a humanitarian disaster has been unfolding for some time now. Throughout these troubles, China has held its tongue, sticking to its policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of any nation.
But that policy may no longer be tenable, because it is in China’s interest to find an effective alternative to a brutal crackdown, which would only remind the world vividly of the massacres in Yangon in 1988 and in Tiananmen Square the following year.
With some international celebrities already keen to start a campaign to boycott the Beijing Olympics because of China’s support for some of the world’s most repressive and incompetent regimes, a military crackdown in Myanmar is the last thing the Chinese authorities can afford.
Moreover, China’s rulers are focused on the looming 17th Congress of the Communist Party, which could likewise be spoiled by a bloody confrontation in Myanmar.
Yet China may be able to pre-empt such an outcome by making the option of a brutal crackdown prohibitively high to the Myanmar regime.
Read more http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Columns/20071002072320/Article/index_html
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Amnesty calls for arms embargo on Myanmar
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – Amnesty International on Monday urged the U.N. Security Council to impose a mandatory arms embargo on Myanmar, and urged the country’s main arms suppliers _ China and India _ to suspend all deals.
“It is unacceptable for states to continue to supply arms to a government that is already responsible for persistent serious violations of human rights and which now resorts to violence against peaceful demonstrators,” Khan was quoted as saying.
The U.N. embargo should remain in place until the junta takes real steps to improve the human rights situation, the statement said.
Amnesty also called on the principal suppliers of arms to Myanmar, particularly China and India, in addition to Russia, Serbia, Ukraine and Southeast Asian nations, to stop arms deals with Myanmar.
Since 1988, Amnesty said, China has supplied Myanmar’s army with a range of military equipment. India is also reported to have agreed to supply military equipment to Myanmar, Amnesty said.
Read more http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/10/1/apworld/20071001184941&sec=apworld
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
To President Putin, “with love”_
Russia is protecting Myanmar with veto ast UNSC because they are actually scared as they know that what the Myanmar Tatmadaw is doing on the ethnic minorities are same as what they are doing on their own ethnic minorities like Chechens, their own citizens, their political dissidents and the neighbouring countries. And the Russians know that they had killed jailed and tortured more of their citizens than in Myanmar. Myanmar Tatmadaw’s atrocities pale when compare to the atrocities of their red army. Russians had also committed unrecorded atrocities on the people of Poland and Czechoslovakia. So Russians are scared that the Myanmar case became a test case or precedent to punish the Russians for the similar atrocities they are committing.
Recently Kremlin critic and former spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed by poisoning with the polonium-210. Alexander Litvinenko accused that Russia President Vladimir V. Putin was behind his poisoning.
Ukranian President Victor Yushchenko was poisoned by the massive dose of dioxin while he was campaigning as a Candidate for the Presidency. He accused the Ukranian government of poisoning him in order to knock him out of the presidential race. Yushchenko stated that he believed he received came from a dinner he ate with Ukraine’s security chief three months ago. The ultimate origin of dioxin is believed to be Russia. Tests revealed that Yushchenko’s blood contained 6,000 times the normal concentration of dioxin.
According to the Reporters sans frontières – Reporters Without Borders , “through the use of powerful state companies, the government is pursuing its take-over of the nation-wide independent media belonging to the “oligarchs” of the news sector. There is no freedom of information in Chechnya, and pressure is increasing on journalists in the various republics of the Russian Federation. Journalist Grigory Pasko is back in jail.”
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once Russia’s richest man and the head of the Yukos oil company. The company’s assets had been took over under the state control. Khodorkovsky was unfairly convicted of fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to nine years in a labor camp just because he supported the opposition.
According to the recent Human Rights Watch report 2007_
The murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaia in October 2006 symbolized the further deterioration of the human rights situation in Russia. Anna Politkovskaia was known for her independent reporting, particularly about abuses committed in the war in Chechnya, Politkovskaia was a fierce critic of the Kremlin and the pro-Russian Chechen government.
In The Northern Caucasus Local human rights groups reported as many as 5,000 people ‘disappeared’ since 1999 and at least 54 so far in 2006. Reports of torture, especially in unofficial detention centers run by the ‘Kadyrovtsy’ increased in 2006.
The Russian government failed to pursue any accountability process for human rights abuses committed during the course of the conflict in Chechnya. Hundreds of victims of abuse have filed applications with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court issued landmark rulings on Chechnya, finding the Russian government guilty of violating the right to life and the prohibition of torture with respect to civilians who had died or been forcibly disappeared at the hands of Russia?s federal troops. Hundreds of similar claims are pending before the court.
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), activists, and independent journalists working on human rights issues, particularly the war in Chechnya, faced increasing administrative and judicial harassment. In some cases, these individuals also endured persecution, threats, and physical attacks.
In November 2005 authorities in Dagestan held Osman Boliev, a human rights defender who investigated kidnapping and other abuses by police. He was tortured in custody and later acquitted and released. Boliev fled Russia in July 2006 when police charged him again with aiding the terrorists.
In January President Vladimir V. Putin signed into law new regulations that impose burdensome reporting requirements on all NGOs and grant registration officials unprecedented authority to interfere with or restrict the work of NGOs. President Vladimir V. Putin is acting like Senior General Than Shwe of Myanmar SPDC.
On June 17, 2006, it was reported that Russian special forces killed Abdul Khalim Saidullayev in a raid in a Chechen town Argun. According to The New York Times, Russian television channels showed gruesome images of a body that appeared to be Saidullayev, and a Web site linked to the Chechen rebels, the Kavkaz Center, confirmed his death and declared him a martyr. The successor of Saidullayev became Doku Umarov. On July 10, 2006, the FSB announced that agents had killed Basayev and up to 12 Chechen separatists in Ingushetia by detonating a truck bomb near cars carrying the separatists.
Russia is selling weapons, arms, ammunitions and nuclear technology to Myanmar Government. Russia is helping Uranium mining, extracting and Uranium enrichment programmes. Russia is also helping Myanmar to build the nuclear reactors. Many Burmese people including students and monks are oppressed; maimed and killed using those bastards-communists’ weapons.
Read more http://www.tayzathuria.org.uk/bd/2007/1/21/sb.htm
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
To the ASEAN leaders,
Please kindly read the following news articles and change your previous stand of shielding Myanmar every where.
1. Razali: Belief in constructive engagement was an illusion
KUALA LUMPUR: The belief that constructive engagement with Myanmar was working was an illusion, said former UN Envoy to Myanmar Tan Sri Razali Ismail.
“Many people knew that the constructive engagement was not constructive because there was very little engagement.
“Only the Foreign Ministers (of Asean) insisted that the constructive engagement was working.
“It is an illusion they placed before their eyes and the Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) has burst the bubble of delusion,” Razali said when contacted yesterday.
Read more http://burmadigest.info/2007/09/30/razali-belief-in-constructive-engagement-was-an-illusion/
2. Malaysia PM: Asean’s constructive engagement with junta has failedNEW YORK: The crackdown on protests in Myanmar shows that Asean’s constructive engagement with the military government of that country has failed, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says.
“It has been the formula used when we deal with Myanmar but up to this stage, it has not been successful although it has been many years already,” the Prime Minister said.
He acknowledged that Thursday’s statement from Asean (Association of South-East Asian Nations), which expressed revulsion over the violent force used against the demonstrators, was unprecedented because of its bluntness. Read more http://burmadigest.info/2007/09/30/malaysia-pm-aseans-constructive-engagement-with-junta-has-failed/
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
According to William Shakespeare –
“The evil that men do lives after them…”
(Julius Caesar III ii.75).
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Please read back my comment No 5 at 01 Oct 2007 at 1:47 am_
Depayin Massacre Myanmar PM General Soe Win is in death bed in Singapore. May be He could understand his mistakes, crime and want to ask for forgiveness if he repented. He would be prevented by Burmese guards. Please remove the Myanmar Guards and talk to him.
We could get the BEST EVIDENCE of the Depayin Massacre to try SPDC Junta, esp Sr Gen Than Shwe.
And my comment No 10 at 01 Oct 2007 at 3:26 pm_
Just the coincidence or quick reaction after reading my FIFTH COMMENT, SPDC urgently brought back PM General Soe Win.
Today there is the report of his death in Mizzima dated October 02, 2007 http://mizzima.com/MizzimaNews/News/2007/Oct/today-demonstration.html
Burmese Prime Minister pass away
Burma’s ailing Prime Minister Lt-Gen Soe Win has died at the military hospital in Mingalardon, Rangoon on Tuesday, sources said.
Soe Win, who returned to Burma on Monday from a secret medical treatment in Singapore, died at about 5:00 p.m (local time), sources added.
The Burmese Prime Minister is known to have been suffering from Leukemia and had secretly received medical treatment in Singapore.
Soe Win, who is a Senior General Than Shwe loyalist, is also known as “the Butcher of Depayin” for orchestrating the Depayin massacre in 2003 by ordering mobs to attack on pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s motorcade.
May be just the coincidence because of my goodluck or
May be it was a quick reaction after reading my 5th COMMENT, SPDC urgently brought back PM General Soe Win, and after talking to him as he was really repented and wish to ask forgiveness. If that theory is true, SPDC has no choice but forced to shut his mouth. If not the whole SPDC would be hauled to ICC as criminals. Only god will know the truth.
But when his medical condition was a top secret, I may have just a curious premonition of his death. But anyway, we lost the best opportunity to prove the Depayin Massacre.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
There is a saying_
Man propose, God dispose meaning; if man proposes evil, God disposes of it.
[c 1420 T. À Kempis De Imitatione Christi I. xix.] The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. Oxford University Press, 2004.
SPDC and Senior General Than Shwe (proposes) promoted General Soe Win to the post of Prime Minister of Myanmar, after the Depayin Massacre.
But tragically, God disposed him with the Leukaemia.
SPDC Junta Generals should get enlightenment from this incidence.
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
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