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UN slams Suu Kyi’s ‘unlawful’ detention
The continued detention of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in violation of international law, said an independent body of the UN’s Human Rights Council in a letter sent to the Burmese government.
Suu Kyi, who will turn 65 on Saturday, has been held under house arrest for 14 of the last 20, and continuously since 2003. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that her detention is “in contravention of articles 9, 10, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, which forbid arbitrary arrest, closed-court hearings and suppression of free speech and assembly.
The Nobel laureate “was not informed of the reasons for her arrest [and] had no effective remedy to challenge her detention,” it said. “No records were given to her; she was never informed of her rights; she has been denied communication with the [o]utside world; and is being detained because of her political views.”
Calls from world leaders urging her release have consistently fallen on deaf ears, with her current period of house arrest handed down in August last year on charges of ‘sheltering’ US citizen John Yettaw, who swam across Rangoon’s Inya lake and took refuge at her house. Yettaw was released days after Suu Kyi’s sentencing.
The opposition icon’s first period under house arrest from 1989 to 1995 provided a pretext for the Burmese junta to deny her office after her National League for Democracy (NLD) party won 82 percent of seats in the 1990 elections. She was again sentenced in 2000 for two years before being released in 2002. But following a 2003 attack by junta-backed thugs on a convoy carrying her supporters, which came to be known as the Depayin massacre, she was put back under house arrest.
When her husband Michael Aris was diagnosed with cancer in 1997, the Burmese government denied him a visa to the country, instead urging Suu Kyi to leave Burma and visit him. This she refused, knowing that she would never be allowed to return, and Aris died in 1999, having only seen her five times over the course of a decade.
A recent statement released by state media in Burma claimed that the country “always respects UN declarations and decisions as it is a UN member country.”
Jared Genser, international counsel for Suu Kyi and head of the Washington-based Freedom Now group, said however that the Burmese junta “continues to flagrantly violate international law”.
“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be sixty-five years old this Saturday, June 19th – another birthday spent unjustly confined,” he said.
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Daw Suu
Against the entrenched dictatorship
Unbeaten she is.
No fear at all.
Go on striving for democracy in Burma.
Solidarity in all with the people of Burma,
Affinity with the oppressed,
Nobel Peace laureate she is.
Sacrifice a lot
Undaunted by the ambush at Depayin,
Unflappable she is.
Keen desire to serve the people,
Yearning for democracy in Burma,
Immense dedication to that cause.
The different b/t Daw Suu and Killer Than Shwe was as the followings:
-Every Burmese people knew Daw Suu’s generation(Father,Granfather,
…etc).They sacrifice(served)for the
Burmese peoples in histry.Now,You can see in DawSuu’s life.
-Nobody Don’t knowKiller Than Shwe’s generation.They never sacrifice(serve)for thepeople.We can see in Killer Than Shwe’s life.
Indeed, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the real thing. She has not only talked-the-talk since becoming involved in Burma’s democracy movement in 1988, she has walked-the-walk.
She asked a lot from the Burmese people in order to free themselves from fear, and stand up against one of the most oppressive military regimes in modern history, then she showed them how with her own actions.
For the most part, between the overturning of the 1990 election results and the house arrest of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the strong-arm politics of the SPDC have extinguished the bonfire of democracy which was lit in 1988.
But wherever Daw Suu was, the flame of democracy has burned brightly through some of Burma’s darkest hours.
Daw Suu is not only living-breathing Burmese history, she is living-breathing World history.
Beware of the many wolves in sheep’s clothing who are attacking Aung San Suu Kyi and defending the monk-murdering regime in media forums, even here at Democratic Voice Of Burma.
Their freedom of speech ensures they can act as the sleazy mafia lawyers defending the regime’s freedom to murder, rape and oppress.
Whether it may be a US Senator, or someone sounding like a political commentator from a CNN talkshow claiming to be a Burmese citizen, or even a deranged Burmese expat claiming to be the King of Burma, simply look very closely at what they write or say, and see if it will lead to freedom and democracy for ALL Burmese citizens, or to a quick opium pipe-dream followed by another twenty years or more of political and economic oppression.
See if what they say will end the regime’s forced labour programs in the ethnic homelands, or whether they will lead to expanded corporate forced labour schemes in outlying rural areas near urban population centers, and perhaps in the cities too.
See if what they say will end ethnic persecution, or whether the regime intends to expand regime ordered, Burma army enforced persecution to include those whose political views differ from the party line.
See if what they say places the blame for the national poverty suffered by the Burmese citizens somewhere other than in the laps of those who have greedily raped and pillaged Burma’s natural resources, and sold them to the lowest bidders.
Most importantly, see if what they say is based on dialogue between the SPDC’s future political mutations and opportunistic foreign governments and their corporations, or based on dialogue with a broad range of Burma’s political organizations and ethnic nationalities.
Aung San Suu Kyi is the living-breathing heart of the Burmese democracy movement, and may God in Heaven soon wake the citizens of Burma, the sleeping body of the Burmese democracy movement….before it is too late.
In the past time:
-General AungSan(Daw Suu’sDaddy)
was assassinated by … and his righ handman U Saw.
In the present time:
-Daw AungSan Suu Kyi and her Party member were assassinated at DEPEYIN By KILLER THAN SHWE and
his Right handmanGen.Kyaw win.
In the Future time:
-Nex time Daw Suu cannot escape from KILLER THAN SHWE’S assassination.He have the master plan already.
-After Daw Suu’s die I willbe too late.Now,we start to do something for Burma Democracy.
The SPDC-arbitrated 2008 constitution is illegal. This wrong must be righted by persistent internal resistance (remember to trust the will of the people) and consistently insistent high international pressure (remember to trust their good will). The time is now, at every moment, never considering it too late. Just like the incessant current of the mighty Irrawaddy, “men may come and men may go but we go on for ever”. It is our birth right to enjoy freedom, and inalienable duty to save our childeren and their children form the yoke of these abominable tyrants and oppressors.
I thank the good Garret for his inspiring commment.
Thank you, Garret.