Good Idea!
Another idea would be a nationwide strike during his stay.

For Aung San Suu Kyi to snub Sen.Webb would be a good way to let the Burmese people know that Sen.Webb is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

He may arrive as a US Senator, but his an agenda is strictly pro-junta, pro-corporate investment, and he brings only betrayal for the democratic movement in Burma.

He does NOT represent the majority of US Senators, or the citizens of the US.

To corporations worldwide, the smell of blood is strong in the air of Burma. The urban Burmese citizens, the only ones in view of the world media are doing NOTHING to protest the sham elections, and the corporate sharks are circling closer and closer knowing that once the regime succeeds in building its facade of democracy, Burma will be wide open to corporate exploitation.

At this critical turning point in the Burmese struggle for freedom, participation in the sham elections by parties such as the NDF are giving legitimacy to an illegitimate, greedy, power hungry, and vengeful military regime which will simply exchange their uniforms for Armani suits.

It is ridiculous that these so-called pro-democracy politicians think their input on behalf of the Burmese citizens will mean any more to the regime after this election, than they did after the 1990 elections.

It will be worse, they will be regime lap-dogs who must bark, sit, and roll-over when their masters command.

Behind the Bamboo curtain in the ethnic homelands there are no olive branches being offered by the regime. The only political campaigning happening there, is the ongoing campaign of brutality.

Murder, rape, extortion, torture, beatings, forced labour, and forced relocation are still the active domestic policies of the SPDC.

Villages are still being attacked, looted, and burned.

Livestock and rice stores are still being confiscated by the Burma army.

Villages, schools, and churches are still being destroyed, and innocent villagers are still being chased into the jungles to suffer, starve, and fall victim to myriad tropical diseases.

But as long as millions of Burmese citizens can turn away from such atrocities, the SPDC monsters will devour someone else’s children.

As long as Sen. Webb and foreign corporate investors can overlook the suffering of millions of Burmese ethnic minority citizens, the apathetic urban citizens will be a source of cheap labour, and Burma will remain an excellent opportunity for high corporate profits.

And, if YOU are that special kind of person who can put aside the human rights atrocities, and the ethnic, religious, and political persecution of millions of Burmese citizens behind the Bamboo Curtain, Burma will remain an excellent value as your vacation destination.

Boycott the elections Burma!

And to the readers who care about ALL of Burma’s citizens, boycott any corporations doing business in Burma.

And to citizens of all free countries, vote against any of your politicians who support the SPDC and their sham elections.

And, until such time as the Burmese citizens decide to change the name of the country from Burma to Myanmar, consider any entities which favor Myanmar over Burma as SPDC sycophants who are complicit with the regime in the atrocities which the SPDC regime has committed.

Dear editor and readers,
If I were not mistaken, the defunct NLD used to denied that it did not appeal for sanctions against the regime. However, the comment made Win Tin in this news is, in fact, the same vein and there were such comments many around made by other top members. Moreover, top leaders said they did not rely on foreign power. However, what they occasionally spitted out carried the same stuff. Recently Win Tin lamented that the foreign governments were lenient punishing the regime and asked to put pressure harder. As long as he stick hardline stance, he will never have a chance to represent the people of Myanmar. He should start researching how other strong, cohesive, and resourceful military regimes in the world have changed to democracy. Win Tin’s influence over the militant youth would prolong the suffering of the people unnecessarily. He will pass away within one or two decades without any contribution to the welfare of the people and reconciliation. However, I don’t worry that much since I learned that there are new leaders emerging in Myanmar political stage and I am sure they understand how to m the military now and in the long run. I respectfully suggest Win Tin to meditate over the wisdom of Saya Dagon Taya’s “Politic is making enemy friends” and ” I have no haters and enemies, but lovers.”
with metta,
Nyunt Shwe

Losers never afraid to lose again.

Military intervention is only way to end this regime.

Dear U Tin,

Pls understand national interest words, every time everythings is always oppositive, how affect sanction is for young people, u’re old enough live in this world.

Good Idea. Since she met Kurt Cambell and she might has nothing to say or not interested to see Jim Webb.

@Burmese People,

I hope u can answer this question.

Did u spend any money(donation) for the people of the country like Daw Suu did with her Noble Peace price $1.3 million???

To Salai Amyo,
“Salai Amyo says:
@Burmese People,you’re a real Maha Burman minded guy.Pl.,don’t use the word Burmese, use Burman. I’m not Burman but I respect Daw Suu’s sacrifice for our country.Did u have any good historical milestone? Can u sacrifice like her? Maybe u got money from the junta for that artical.Ha!!!”
1. You are being personal.
2. who are you to tell us Burmese what to use?
3. For your own self respect, study real Burmese hsitory seriously, if you are that interested in Burma.
4. Otherwise, do not meddle in our affairs. We do not meddle in your personal or your country’s affiars. We don’t knwo which country you belong to; may be you are an immigrant in a Western country. You have no role to play in our Burma’s affairs.
5. All indigenous people of Burma are Burmese. As we have already explained, Burmese or Bamar is derived from Brahma, a god of Hinduism.
6. That traitor woma BuuByi is totally ignorant of Burma’s hsitory.
7. We are all for one and one for all!
WE WILL CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR REAL DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHT.
Do not abuse us just because we do not blindly attact the Burmese regime. We understand how political systems evolve. We study the world, not just Burma.
Remember that, please.

“Burmese People” is a caricature of arrogance.
Disrespecting Aung San Suu Kyi, the elected leader of Burma, by cynically referring to her as “Mrs. Michael Aris”, “that usurper woman”, and “blinded with lust for power” gives us a pretty good indication of his equal disrespect for the “Burmese People” who elected her.

I can’t argue his points that Burma needs good laws, brilliant economists, skilled workers, doctors, nurses, etc, etc.

But as for Burma needing “armed forces loyal to King and Country”, Burma is NOT a monarchy, therefore what Burma, and the “Burmese People” need is an armed forces which is loyal to the *leader of the government which the “Burmese People” democratically elected in 1990.(*Aung San Suu Kyi)

The Burmese monarchy ended when the Burmese King (read final Burmese King, as in LAST Burmese King) abdicated his throne and surrendered his country to Great Britain.

*Note to DVB, please begin posting the country of origin of the comments, it would help all readers to differentiate between the comments of Burmese expats living overseas in the lap of democracy, from those who are Burmese citizens living in Burma under the burden of SPDC dictators.

Salai Amyo said:
“I never heard about the name HM king schwebomin2 in true Burmese history as ur saying. Please do not emphasize untruthful history u junta always used.”

Firstly, the “HM King Shwebomin II”, referred to by his groupie “Burmese People” aka “Myanmar Patriot4 UMPF”, has certainly never been crowned King of Burma. Self-described as “His Royal Highness Crown Prince Shwebomin”, he is apparently a London socialite and businessman who is a Burmese expat posing as a pretender to the throne of Burma, which as everyone in Burma knows, no longer exists.

After Googling his name, I found that many links to his interviews listed at Google are broken (or cancelled?), as are the links to Shwebomin’s own “Royal Burma Society”. You would have a better chance of opening links to the Burmese Cat Society.

What I also found was that other than those who take his claims at face value, there are no historians or genealogists who accept him as a legitimate heir to throne of Burma. And it is not because they did not request that he submit details of his ancestry so that they could properly place him in his alledged family line.

I went so far as to email Christopher Buyers in Great Britain, whose ROYALARK website is well known for his extensive research of the genealogies of the Royal and ruling houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
http://www.royalark.net/Burma/burma.htm

In fact, Mr Buyers’ genealogy of the Konbaung Dynasty alone, from which “Shwebomin” claims his ancestry, is 19 pages long.
http://www.royalark.net/Burma/konbaun1.htm

When asked about “Crown Prince Shwebomin” Mr Buyers replied:
“The so called Shwebomin is a complete hoax who has been doing the European pretender party circuit for years. Sometime ago several people, including myself, who were interested in Royal genealogy asked him to provide his ancestry. He never provided anything despite several requests. Whenever questioned, his explanations always sounded very shifty and he would dissappear for a while.”

Just as someone claiming to have a work of art by Leonardo DaVinci, Van Gogh, or Rembrandt would have to prove its provenance before it would be accepted by the art world, someone claiming to be royalty has to do more than simply make their claim.

Considering that Shwebomin has refused to cooperate with genealogists, he must either have something to hide, or nothing to show. Since no one posting from Burma has ever heard of him, I was not surprised to hear that he was unwilling to reveal any details of his alledged ancestry.

In the few interviews with the alledged “Crown Prince” which were still available online, I found that his explanations as regards the dates and circumstances surrounding his leaving Burma were often contradictory (sometimes referred to as his being exiled, other times referred to as leaving in order to gain his education in Great Britain).

There were even two online video interviews on a British program called “The Defining Moment”, one titled “Leadership and Selflessness” and the other “Power vs. Moral Authority”. In both segments he rambled on as if he had been recognised as Burmese royalty prior to his being “exiled” in order to avoid being used by the military regime.

His comments alluded that he has been raised-up from boyhood to be the King Of Burma someday. Yet his comments as regards Burma showed very little knowledge of the issues faced by Burmese citizens, nor any empathy for the millions of Burmese ethnic minority citizens persecuted and enslaved by the regime.

In fact, he described Nelson Mandella as his ideal of a selfless leader for having endured 27 years in prison, instead of Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of BURMA, who has spent most of the last 2o years either in prison or under house arrest IN BURMA. And, in what I can only see as contempt for the Burmese citizens who elected her as their leader in 1990, during the two half-hour long programs he never once mentioned Daw Suu, and was mostly supportive of the regime. If anything, his comments regarding what his inputs would be as the King of Burma, seemed to be based on some sort of utopian best case scenario where all of Burma’s problems of political, economic, ethnic, and religious oppression and government corruption had already been solved, at which point the citizens of Burma would then see the absolute necessity to reinstate the monarchy and crown him as His Majesty King Shwebomin.
Realistically speaking, he probably has an equal or perhaps better chance of becoming the King of England.

After watching the videos, I came away with the impression that the whole “Crown Prince” sham is simply a psycological condition, some sort of royalty envy syndrome which he uses to elevate his social position in Great Britain and Europe where he likes to gravitate towards assemblies of other royalty posers like himself.
It seemed apparent that he knows there is no possibility of his ever being taken seriously by anyone in Burma, and I think that if Shwebomin’s bluff was ever called, and he were to be asked to return to Burma, he would at once suffer urinary incontinence, and then quickly retire to Monaco or Zurich.

I have received permission from The Defining Moment to transcribe and post the content of the two video interviews, and I may submit them to DVB for publishing so that everyone can meet Crown Prince Shwebomin up close and personal, and separate the man from the myth.

@ Garrett. Thanks for the info about shwebomin. I’ve been googling about him and this is the most comprehensive info I’ve come across so far.
Have been puzzling about this man’s true figure since he created his fan page on fb as “crown prince shwebomin of Burma” recently.