More to come

I have been busy with spreading my words and thoughts against Chinese policies towards Tibet, Sudan/Dafur, and of course, Burma. Also, my friends and I are working on a video clip. Oh yeah, I also donated to the Break the Burma Blackout drive by Avaaz. If you would like to pitch in, here is the link
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/end_the_burmese_blackout/8.php?cl=33403588

Here, I wanted to pass on the message form uscampaignforburma.org

"This Wednesday, October 24th, is an important day for Burma. It is: 1) United Nations Day, 2) The day when Aung San Suu Kyi will have been under house arrest for a total of 12 years, and 3) One month since the uprisings in Burma were at their peak.

We will be marking this day with a host of actions around the world.

- Several organizations are working together to organize in 12 cities around the world. At 12 noon, demonstrators dressed in white (as political prisoners are forced to wear inside Burma) will gather in front of Chinese embassies. Please let us know if you want to participate in the demonstration in Washington, DC.

- A group of Burmese monks and exiles have been marching from Albany, NY to the United Nations in a peace walk. On Wednesday, please join with them as they continue their march from the Burmese regime's Mission in New York to the United Nations from 10-11 am. The Mission is located on 10E and 77th St. For more info, the cell phone for the peace walk is (518) 605-8506.

- For those of you who cannot participate in these actions we are asking you to ensure that the American public does not forget Burma. We are asking you on this day to reinvigorate public attention by writing an op-ed article for your local newspaper, write a post on your blog or facebook profile, host a teach in for your friends and neighbors, or for more suggestions visit our action page

The Burmese regime may be the jailer of Aung San Suu Kyi and thousands of other prisoners, but China holds the key to her release. The United Nations Security Council (of which China is a member) must act urgently as more and more people are being hunted down, arrested and tortured. China must not block Security Council action. We will show that we will not allow Burma's regime to hide its abuses from the world.. The United Nations Security Council needs to pass a global arms embargo now!"


Let us use our freedom to promote that of the Oppressed.

Peace-

Hey Burmese Junta. Give us a break! Make up some better stories. Or jokes, rather.

"Recent raids on monasteries turned up guns, knives and ammunition, though it was not yet clear to whom they belonged, according to The New Light of Myanmar, a mouthpiece of the junta." [1]

Well, that's how dumb the junta is. They don't know how the weapons turned up in the monasteries. Their Special Branch must have been busy trying to find out which astrologer could direct Than Shwe what to do next. Move the Capital back to Rangoon? Possibly.

Ask a 2 year old in Burma. He may be malnourished. Or, probably crippled from the beatings during the last demonstrations. But, he knows enough that those weapons belonged to Burmese military. And, he will also tell you that the soldiers brought with them and placed in the monasteries. DUH.

Don't believe me? Ok. Ok. Fine. The soldiers didn't bring with them. So, it must be the monks. Right? WRONG!

At the height of the recent protests, Junta has ordered at least 3000 monk robes. In addition, the junta officials were seen at a public soccer field where they were overseeing groups of people(junta's militia) being shaved their heads. The plan was to mingle those fake monks into the crowd and turn the peaceful protests into violent ones and thus giving the junta the excuse to shoot the demonstrators. The plan did not materialize. The junta got too panic and started shooting the monks and people anyways.

What to do now with those junta's thugs whose head got already shaved. Well, guess what, there is no better time than now to use those fake monks.

The monasteries have been emptied of monks and there were reports that the public started noticing some "monks" with freshly shaved heads started turning up at the monasteries. Since there is close relationship between the people in the neighborhood with the monks, the people know that they have never seen those "monks" in the monasteries before. And, when the neighborhood people asked them, those "monks" quickly left. Yes, they left but they also left those weapons, ammunitions and knives in the monasteries.

And, better yet, those guns, knives and ammunition are most likely "Made In China". Then, my advice to the Burmese junta is call their PAPA to the North and check on the serial numbers on the guns. Hmm. May be some Chinese Communist Party's cadres at work here. Oh yeah, China stands by its policy to not "meddle with Burmese internal affairs". Uh huh.

Burmese monks and people are tired of those cheap propaganda. They are so tired of it that they doubt every single word that comes out of junta. The sun may even really rise from the west. But, if that's what the junta that tells the Burmese monks and the people, they will tell the junta to save it for the Hell and try the B.S to the Devil once they get there.


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/07/myanmar.weapons2.ap/index.html [1]

CHINA: Stop writting the Burmese history with blood.

China has been calling the recent bloodshed in Burma "Burma's internal affairs that do not threaten international peace and security"[1]. China's Ambassador to the United Nations Wang Guangya said "These problems, we believe, are basically internal. A solution for the Myanmar situation has to be found by the Myanmars themselves."

What Wang refuses to recognize is that all citizens of the world in this fight against the oppression of peaceful Burmese citizens by brutal and ruthless Burmese junta have become all Myanmars themselves. Thus, Myanmars are indeed finding peaceful ways for this crisis. However, to thwart those efforts of the world's citizens, Chinese government is the one which is meddling with Burma's internal affairs by supporting the Burmese military junta.

Burma's foreign minister U Nyan Win on Monday blamed intense pro-democracy demonstrations in his country on "political opportunists". He dare not blame the REAL political and economy opportunitist China.

Not only China meddles with Burma's internal affairs, China is the real political opportunist who seeks to secure a route to the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea through Burma. In addition, propping up the Burmese junta provides China a proxy state to India and Thailand. China is also the real economy opportunist who seeks to profit from Burma's vast source of natural gas for China's growing energy needs.

What Chinese government needs to do now is call a Chinese Securtiy Council meeting of its own and think hard.

This time the tide is turning against the Burmese Military junta. The whole world is not only watching. They are united and taking actions.

Just to mention a few. United Nations has sent the special envoy to Burma to persuade them to find peaceful solutions. The special envoy is going back to Burma no later than November to make sure that Burma does not return to the status quo. The United Nation Human Rights Council is preparing to go inside Burma and investigate the dead, detained, missing and tortured monks and Burmese who have again courageously expressed their desire to live free of oppression. Today, in dozens of cities across Asia, Europe and North America, people took to the street to show that they stand shoulder to shoulder with the Burmese in their struggle for freedom [3]. 543, 197 people from 192 countries have signed up a petition to request China to persuade the Burmese junta to choose the peaceful path to national reconciliation [4].

China needs to decide whether to keep supporting the fading Burmese junta or join the peaceful efforts by the United Nations and citizens of the world for the birth of a democratic, peaceful and legitimate government in Burma. And, China needs to decide now.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/01/myanmar.unrest/index.html[1]
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/myanmar.ap/index.html[2]
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/myanmar.protests.ap/index.html[3]
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma [4]

Join tomorrow for International Day of Action for a Free Burma

Free Burma

brutal beatings of peaceful demonstrators by Burmese soldiers

Yeah, that's part of what the Burmese junta calls 'responding with correct measures'


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/10/02/rivers.myanamar.beatings.cnn

Burmese bloggers unite!

Here is the link to Burmese Bloggers Without Borders.

http://bbwob.blogspot.com/

stand with Burmese people!

Yesterday, I signed for a petition to request UN Security Council and China to positively influence and produce real results instead of words and lip service. The petition is available at


http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/

The petition drive has already collected about 250,000 signatures only in a few days. It is aiming for another 250,000 by the week's end.

Stand with the Burmese people!

the killing of Japanese Journalist Mr Kenji Nagai on video

He was shot at a close range with the intent to kill by a Burmese soldier.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9196946481230722333

Letter to the UN Secretary General

Dear Mr. Secretary-General,

At this moment, Burmese monks and people are being shot, killed and beaten to death only because they express their desire to live free from constant fear, only because they have nothing to feed their families, only because they can not afford to go to work, only because the monks simply wanted an apology from the junta. And, they have expressed their desire peacefully.

On behalf of Burmese monks and people who died and those who are willing to die for their future generations, I would like to strongly urge the United Nations to send a peace keeping force to Burma.

Now is the time for the United Nations to seize this opportunity and facilitate the birth of a democratic, peaceful and legitimate government chosen by the Burmese people.

Please send the peace keeping force to BURMA now.

What is SPDC going to do?

Earlier tonight, I listened to a BBC news clip (http://www.bbc.co.uk/burmese/news/story/2004/12/041201_sunday_dawn.shtml) which had the interviews with Kyemon (The Mirror) U Thaung and Ko Moe Thee Zun (June).

Given the current demonstrations of the Burmese people led by Sayadaws(monks) of Burma, I have created this blog to discuss how the events will unfold this time around. I lived through the events of 88. It has been 14 years that I left Burma. Now, I live in the U.S. It's like a dejavu all over again. I hope things turn out for the best for the People.