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.

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.