Myanmar: List of Detainees and Letter From A 88 Generation Worker

Global Voices ^ | 2 Oct 2007 | yangonthu

[angkor]

Blogger Niknayman has a list of names and affiliations of over 300 monks and civilians who have been arrested by the Myanmar Military Regime. Many are from the National League of Democracy, the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Newspapers across Asia are putting the number of detained people at 1500. Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norwegian organization reports that the number of arrested is much higher at over 2000. Death toll is rumoured to be in the hundreds, though the Myanmar Junta refuses to confirm the official number.

Democratic Voice of Burma is quoting this announcement from Ko Sein Lin, a 1988 Generation worker. In 1988, there was a similar protest against the Myanmar Junta, led mostly by the students. These protests were brutally crushed by the Junta and over 3000 people were thought to have been killed and many more tortured.

Ko Sein Lin urges the rest of the workers to join in the protest against the Myanmar Junta:

[angkor]

The expected murder and mayhem from the Burma junta.

The "World Leaders" can (a) write a letter, (2) have the disreputable U.N. write a letter, (c) finally succumb to decency and assemble a force to kick butt.

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And then there is China.

[JimSEA]

Thanks for the reference on the web site, it is interesting. The article is depressing but what I think most expected.

[TigersEye]

From a comment posted on the blog...

citizen: 1 To stop the military junta’s cruelty in Burma take away their financial support by boycotting the companies still doing business with the Burmese government. Companies like Total SA, Chevron, Daewoo and any travel companies operating tours there. The government spends half it’s budget on the military and it gets it’s money from these companies. Stop buying from these companies, they are immoral in their conduct and have a duty to the human rights in the countries they deal with which they do not uphold. Check out:- http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/dirty_list/dirty_list_details.html for a full list of the companies involved

[rontorr]

“To stop the military junta’s cruelty in Burma take away their financial support by boycotting the companies still doing business with the Burmese government. Companies like Total SA, Chevron, Daewoo and any travel companies operating tours there”

Better yet, All Tourists and businesses boycott Burma, sigh, but that is like asking the Rats and Bats to boycott telling lies half truths and exagerations...sigh

[TigersEye]

You’re right about that. I feel like there’s not much else I can do other than link as much information as I find back to FR. Perhaps some will boycott these companies and hopefully the information will continue to spread through the internet. The MSM is not going to cover this.

[LeoWindhorse]

“To stop the military junta’s cruelty in Burma”
direct the U.S. Navy to lay in air strikes on each and every residence associated with the Junta . At the same time level their new little Capitol up there .
What’s it called I’matyrantpaw?
Just waste um....then the little people will take care of business

The USA could do this , with NO losses , in 48 hours.
As a US taxpayer , I would support this use of my tax dollars.

[rontorr]

What I been thinking for the last few days would be a lot cheaper. Send in about 4 spec ops teams to both Rangoon and Mandalay to link up with the opposition groups, airlift a few squads of the Rebel armies from the frontier, coordinated with some airdrops of extra munitions and weapons for the locals, and clean house from the ground, with far less collateral damage
for the Rats and UN to complain about. It wouldn’t take too long to mop up, the thugs doing all the bad stuff are the hired guns AKA private armies of each Junta general, and the real Burmese army would change sides in a hurry