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Buffalohair: Than Shwe’s Ultimatum
Sep 7, 2009
Than Shwe’s Ultimatum
 Posted in Asia with tags 2009, Buddhist Monks, Burma, Oct 2, Than Shwe on September 7, 2009 by buffalohair

Oct 2

October 2nd has become the iconic day of reckoning for General Than Shwe of Burma. According to sources within Burma Than Shwe has until 12 noon on October 2, 2009 to make a formal apology for the incarceration, beating and murder of Buddhist monks during a peaceful demonstration. If he refuses he will be excommunicated from the Buddhist faith. In essence Than Shwe will be stripped of his most powerful weapon in keeping a nation divided, religion. If he is no longer a Buddhist he can no longer purport the need to rape and murder Christians under the banner of Buddhism.

Without Buddhism to hide behind he will have to find a new excuse for his continued campaign of Burmanization and the wholesale slaughter of all ethnic minorities in Burma. It still astounds the imagination how he managed to justify torture, rape and murder then claim to be Buddhist in the first place. But with a woefully inept United Nations and the continued impotent response from the so called free world, Than Shwe continues his exercise in eugenics unabated. Many corporate controlled media groups have also turned a deaf ear on the plight of Burma for the most part as well.

The October 2nd deadline was proclaimed by the monks yet very little has been mentioned about it in the mainstream press. In the meantime the Burmese military has been beefing up its forces “just in case” of a new and more powerful uprising. Timing is everything since Than Shwe has opened up the battlement lines to the north and has declared war on ceasefire groups who refuse to be border cops. It’s ironic that Senator Jim “One World Order” Webb was making nice with Than Shwe while his goons advanced on Kokang and other ethnic groups. He should have taken a stroll in one of the many under supplied and over filled refugee centers along the border, provided they are not being shelled by the Burmese military.

With the help of the “liars press” bold faced lies about the meeting circulated around the world as Webb made libelous statements about Daw Aung Suu Kyi. John “the moron” Yettaw made grandiose and thinly veiled lies about his encounter with Aung Suu Kyi then made public his book writing aspirations. I can see the book store now, protesters all around with posters and chants. Then there is John making a hasty retreat out the back door. Daw Aung Suu Kyi has long since decried the false and lascivious statements the dumb duo made. As far as Burma’s democracy was concerned, Jim’s visit was a giant step backward. Yettaw’s visit was catastrophic but “with no regrets”, in his words.

With Daewoo investing billions in Burma as of this writing it is clear the worldwide corporate agenda quietly moved forward. Burma, locked in the throws of indentured servitude, continues to be raped by outsiders. Than Shwe betrayed Burma sold her to the corporate world, the ultimate money laundering scheme. Globalization is colonization on a planetary scale and Burma is to rich in natural resources to ignore. It is obvious the fate of Burma has been determined by others. Than Shwe is just a pawn and a scapegoat to the ones who bought him years ago. In all reality sanctions have not been honored from the corporate world. Merger after merger internationally has laced a web of unscrupulously divisive criminals who’ve also managed to bypass U.S. monopoly laws.


Of the top 100 economies of the world at least half are corporations. Imagine corporations with a GDP larger then 80% of the nations of the world. One day you will drive around in a cute Nano by Tata Motors of India. Just don’t forget that Tata Motors is building a facility in Burma for the sole purpose of building medium to heavy trucks for Burma’s Military. The cute little Nano would be soaked in human blood and the suffering of an enslaved nation. The corporate web is all encompassing though.
 Two English institutions, Land Rover and Jaguar, now share the tainted resume’ in epic human carnage for Tata Motors is their parent company. From Mrs. Beasley’s Cookies to that cool Daewoo big screen TV, corporations doing business with Than Shwe stock our shelves. So when people say sanctions have not worked it’s because they were not enforced in earnest in the first place. In our complacency we’ve become unwitting benefactors of tyranny not only in Burma, but around the world. Lusting for the cheapest price we forget the price that is paid in human suffering.


The world has done nothing to ease Burma’s pain. The cowardly United Nations has exercised selective justice and all but ignored Burma year after year. Feel good speeches, fruitless visits and spineless sanctions have bought the people of Burma nothing but more broken promises. Now the monks of Burma have made their position known as they take destiny into their own hands. Than Shwe must apologies to the Buddhist Monks for the cruel treatment and murder of holy people from a faith he proclaims to be. He has until October 2nd of 2009 at 12 noon Rangoon time. If he ignores this request he will be excommunicated from all of Buddhism. In turn the junta has increased surveillance and security around monasteries and Buddhist enclaves across the country. The fused has been lit as a nation under siege braces for the future. And the world is oblivious.


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Posted: Sep 7, 2009 6:44pm
Global Action for Burma: Free Aung San Suu Kyi
May 16, 2009
Focus: Women
Action Request: Phone Call
Location: Washington D.C., United Kingdom
Global Action for Burma: Free Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted in Asia on May 16, 2009 by buffalohair

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FREE BURMA FEDERATION

Posted: 15 May 2009 11:08 AM PDT

On 6th of May, an American citizen was detained by Burmese military regime after secretly swimming across Inya Lake, Rangoon to gain access to the Nobel Laureate’s House. According to the official Burmese media, he was identified as 53-year old former military serviceman John William Yettaw of Falcon, Missouri, USA. On 13th of May, American diplomat was allowed to meet with him. Although his motives for the alleged lake exploits remain unclear, it caused the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi to serve jail terms under the anti-subversion laws.



Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the past 19 years detained in virtual isolation in her crumbing compound since the junta refused to recognize her party’s landslide victory in the country’s last election in 1990. Her last period of detention at her home expires at the end of May. This expiration of six years of house arrest, without trail or charge or even figleaf of legal respectability, was to have yanked away from the generals.



Now, due to the uninvited access to her compound by American citizen, the military generals no longer need to trouble themselves with legal niceties and it has given them a ready-made reason to imprison the most prominent political prisoner up for at least another five years. It would perfectly play into the hands of the junta if the United States of America and international community do not stand up with the People of Burma who have been oppressed by the junta for several years.



Therefore, we call upon the international community and overseas Burmese people around the world to the global action for Free Aung San Suu Kyi. Demonstrations and a number of activities will take place in different countries. We would like to encourage everyone to join with us to show solidarity and unity.



“Add your voice to a call for Free Aung San Suu Kyi”



Independence Campaign
Global Action for Burma
www.globalactionforburma.blogspot.com
www.gab-burma.weebly.com

Please contact the following persons for detailed information.

(Independence campaign is a results-oriented coalition dedicated to Free Aung San Suu Kyi campaign to share information about the activities. Please kindly contact Mr. Sai Myo Win (ida0072@gmail.com) and Ms. Nang Thida Aye (ntda.dwg@gmail) for campaigns update and campaigns information if your country is not listed in the above list.)



Mr. Myo Thein (UK), Tel: +44 208 493 9137, Email: myothein19@gmail.com
Mr. Yin Aye (USA) , Tel: + 1 301 905 7591, Email: yindbso@gmail.com
Mr. Ko Ko Aung (Japan), Tel: + 81 090 1506 2893, Email: kokoaung_dfbjp@yahoo.com
Mr. Kyaw Than (India), Tel: +91 9810601506, Email: absl_india88@yahoo.com
Mr. Yin Htwe (Thailand), Email: yinhtway@gmail.com
Mr. Si Thu (Canada), Email: oneloveoneburma@gmail.com
Ms. Khin Ma Ma Myo (Scotland), Tel: +44 1224 524 077, Email: khinmamamyo@gmail.com
Ms. Nang Thida Aye, Email: ntda.dwg@gmail.com
Mr Sai Myo Win, Tel: +66 835 823 490, Email: ida0072@gmail.com
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Posted: May 16, 2009 1:32pm
Buffalohair: Insein’s Newest Guest
May 14, 2009
Insein’s Newest Guest Posted in Asia with tags Aung San Suu Kyi, Insein Prison, Than Shwe on May 14, 2009 by buffalohair

Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi was lead away from her home by government security forces. *Her destination, Burma’s chamber of horrors, Insein Prison. She will await trial then into a cell to serve out her sentence in Burma’s corrupt kangaroo court system. With no concern for justice or the law Than Shwe has concocted a scheme to break the back of the democracy movement within Burma. His failure to persuade ethnic cease fire groups to become fanciful porters and border lackeys was a major set back on his roadmap to total domination. But not all was lost fore he succeeded in arresting Aung San Suu Kyi on bogus charges in an effort to assert his authority and assure a victory in the illegal 2010 election. And the world looks impotently at yet another horrendous act of inhumanity and absolute corruption.


Than Shwe’s propaganda machines have been turning out some wild stories and it is my suggestion they find jobs in Hollywood. The scripts would almost make a B-Rated movie as ridiculous as the stories are. Of course Than Shwe is throwing in a race card to try and rally support for his lies. His lackey’s speak about morality, virtue and the scarlet woman Aung San Suu Kyi. Guess the wholesale murder of ethnic minorities is not as immoral as having someone intruding in your privacy without your permission. Bombing and maiming innocent men, women and children is just a walk in the park. Spreading vile and incurable diseases to cull the opposition and eliminate villagers also meets higher moral standards. Having sex with children then butchering them to death is exempt from moral scrutiny in the junta’s eyes. Child soldiers stand as a testament to Than Shwe’s concern for the youth of his nation and slaves continue to be killed when they can’t work. Yes, Than Shwe is the pillar of the community, provided you live in hell.


So let the junta spread their vile lies about Aung San Suu Kyi. It is only themselves they are trying to fool fore the world already knows the truth. Than Shwe and his criminal regime are a lie and a fraud. And now the ball is in the court of the international community. It is time to put up your money where your mouth is. The days of rhetoric and feel good speeches have come to no avail. The people of Burma have made their voices heard at great risk to their lives and civil liberties.


With volumes of videos, pictures and eye witnesses surely there is one scrap of evidence that could be used in a court of law. Maybe the facts are too harsh and distasteful to think about because of the gruesome and violent nature in which people were killed by the Burmese Army. How grizzly does a murder have to be before it is a punishable offence under international law? What exactly has to happen to justify a comprehensive world wide response? Obviously morality, humanity and the democratic voice of a nation has little influence in today’s world. Small wonder the world is faced with an unprecedented financial disaster fore money is the only motivator in world politics. It’s all about the money.


I know if I was in their position I would be looking towards my friends to help me out. After all, that’s what friends do, at least in my side of the street. Burma was a critical ally during WWII. Now we sit paralyzed in fear of upsetting the ox cart of lucratively in Asian markets. At one time life was considered priceless, now it’s considered collateral damage and a side bar in the grand scheme of things. If we turn our back on Burma at this juncture, we’ve sold our soul to the devil and we will be rewarded accordingly, in the grand scheme of things. If we don’t stand for humanity there is no civilization.


*http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=15632


John William Yettaw, what were you thinking?


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Posted: May 14, 2009 10:28am
Buffalohair: Jurisprudence Than Shwe Style
May 13, 2009
Jurisprudence Than Shwe Style Posted in Asia with tags Aung San Suu Kyi, Rangoon Swimmer, Than Shwe on May 13, 2009 by buffalohair

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Junta is Plotting to Imprison Aung San Suu Kyi
May 13, 2009

Junta is Plotting to Imprison Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted in Asia with tags Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Than Shwe on May 13, 2009 by buffalohair


BDC
12 May 2009Aung San Suu Kyi is ailing but junta denied giving proper medical treatment. Junta’s shear brutality has reached epic perorations in senseless crimes against humanity by denying giving proper medical treatment to ailing Aung San Suu Kyi.The criminal regime of Than Shwe has crossed the boundaries of morality as well as sanity.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, NLD, won landslide victory in 1990 general election but regime still ignore to honour it. Instead put Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and she has spent 13 of the last 19 years.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention expired for continuous five years and regime extended another year even though under 1975 Emergency Law Section 10(b) does not allow anyone to detain more than five consecutive years. Junta is violating its own so-called law by extending her detention another year. Aung San Suu Kyi will complete six years of continuous detention on 27 May 2009.

According to the sources close to the military, there would be possibility of charging Aung San Suu Kyi relating to the swimmer incident which could end up imprisonment.

Junta is plotting the ploy to prison Aung San Suu Kyi.

International community has a moral responsibility to intervene on behalf of humanity.

Please see the link. Burma Democratic Concern’s (BDC) voice for Aung San Suu Kyi before junta plotting the ploy. http://www.bdcburma.org/NewsDetails.asp?id=410
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Director
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC)
myothein19@gmail.com
myothein@bdcburma.org
+44 208 493 9137
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http://www.youtube.com/user/bdcburma

Burma Democratic Concern is the registered company in UK, and register number is 6496926. Register address 2nd Floor, 145-157, St John Street, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 4PY
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Posted: May 13, 2009 6:49pm
Buffalohair: Burma’s Plot Thickens
May 9, 2009
Burma’s Plot Thickens

Posted in Asia on May 8, 2009 by buffalohair

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With movement around the home of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in part over the swimmer flap many other concerns surfaced. Speculation she could possibly be released raising even more serious concerns. Knowing the junta’s track record every move they would make would be calculated down to the last detail. Nothing is ever left to chance by the military regime. Their actions require deep analysis and intelligence to decipher the ulterior motives and their grave consequences.

The swimming incident has already drawn a multitude of hearsay and conjecture with the facts of the event still skewed at best. The immediate concern was fear the junta would try to besmirch Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with salacious and lascivious innuendos in an effort to taint her reputation. It would not be the first time the junta tried to insinuate Aung San Suu Kyi was less than reputable. *According to an unnamed security staffer the intruder was remanded to the first floor of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home since Suu Kyi considered this illegal and unacceptable from the onset. The swimmers intrusion also raised security issues since there has been a robbery in the neighborhood where Aung San Suu Kyi resides. Sounds like an inside job to me since this neighborhood is so well guarded. Anything is possible in a nation where justice is administered at the end of a gun barrel.

The Burmese people reminded me of an incident where the junta brought her husband to the house during another period of confinement. The junta wanted to show that Aung San Suu Kyi was weak and in need. To the chagrin of the junta Aung San Suu Kyi turned her husband away knowing this was a junta ploy to defame & debase her and the NLD. The junta offered to release her if she moved to England and turn her back on Burma. She refused and chose to stand for her people. There is no question the junta played many psychological games with Aung San Suu Kyi during her periods of confinement. In another test of Aung San Suu Kyi’s will the junta allowed her to speak to her dying husband on the phone. In a sad ending to their love affair it was said he died while on the phone with his wife.

With personal loss as well as the opportunity to be set free Aung San Suu Kyi chooses to stand for her nation and suffer the consequences for her decision. Her character is legendary and that of a true leader. Any attempt by the junta to defame her would be meaningless in light of her personal sacrifice.

As for the scuttlebutt about the possibility of Aung San Suu Kyi’s release, still no official word on this matter but this did pose some very real concerns for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s safety. Myo Thein, Director of Burma Democratic Concern, mentioned that the junta was never to be trusted. If the junta was going to release Aung San Suu Kyi there would be ulterior motives, one immediate concern being assassination. Fact is Myo Thein stressed that Aung San Suu Kyi’s security would be an absolute priority if and when she was released. Mortal fear for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s safety has predominated when the possibility of her release first circulated. Mindful of growing world wide attention the junta would simply contract the assassination out and buy time & distance from her release date according to sources within Burma. As of now, time is the task master.

On a positive note, what if the junta was actually considering reconciliation? Than Shwe could alter the course of history and build on a new legacy. The people would finally be free. Burma would prosper as she has done in the distant past and become a viable player in the world economy. Commerce would flourish in Southeast Asia in ways once thought impossible. And most important of all, genocide would come to a halt and the farmers would come back home to tend their fields once again. We all have our dreams and mine are for the people of Burma.

*http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1475874.php/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi_says_swimming_visitor_stayed_downstairs_

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