Friday August 28, 2009, 11:51 pm
Thank you Ben.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 12:21 am
To UK and US Governments and the United Nations Security Council:
"We call on you to condemn the cruel conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi to another year and a half in detention and to immediately take steps at the United Nations Security Council to create a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and hold the Burmese regime to account for crimes against humanity"

Saturday August 29, 2009, 4:37 am
Thank you Ben..
Noted..

Saturday August 29, 2009, 6:22 am
Noted and signed,thank you Ben.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 6:31 am
Noted and signed, thanks, Ben.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 7:30 am
Signed petition before, they woud not let me sign again
Thanks Ben

Saturday August 29, 2009, 7:30 am
Already signed. Thanks Ben.

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Saturday August 29, 2009, 7:45 am
Thanks Ben. Noted and signed.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 9:37 am
Thank You!
"159,440 have already signed the petition! Let's reach our new target of 200,000"

Saturday August 29, 2009, 9:46 am
This is my very first Care2 News submitted: (2 years ago)
"Monks Lead Largest Burma Protest"
http://www.care2.com/news/member/140535861/490009

"Please use Your liberty to promote ours"
(Aung San Suu Kyi)

Saturday August 29, 2009, 12:38 pm
Previously signed.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 1:51 pm

Dear Ben, I like to agree with you in the struggle to denounce these injustices, I have also done some post on this subject, you can visit my page ested:
http://aruasjf.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/pedimos-justicia-para-el-pueblo-birmano
are in Spanish, (because I am one), but shows that over borders and language barriers are the desire for justice in the mundo.Saludos and paz.Juan Francisco.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 3:25 pm
Come on why are we not use the time instead to fix whats wrong with America. homeless, no work , people losing jobs, housing. Figured out who, what, why, they got us in the mess we are in. We still don't how 9-11 happen. Sad thing about Burma. But America is going down the toilet I don't see other countries coming to help us. America will never be invaded But will fall within. (Bush almost did it)

Saturday August 29, 2009, 7:40 pm
What makes me even more angry is, that this stupid american who brought this latest misery on Suu Kyi, is a free man while she took the brunt of his lunacy. I wonder if someone in the Burmese Government paid him to do it. I am usually not paranoid about such things, but here I smell a rat.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 11:08 pm
Signed. Thank You.

Saturday August 29, 2009, 11:17 pm
Action was already taken, and I shared on facebook. thank you Bengt...

Sunday August 30, 2009, 12:14 am
"Thank you for signing this petition to call for a Commission of Inquiry and hold the Burmese junta accountable for crimes against its people"

Monday August 31, 2009, 7:13 am
"New Japanese Gov’t Expected to be More Critical of Junta" (Irrawaddy)
Burma pro-democracy activists in Japan say newly elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama should be more supportive of the pro-democracy movement when he takes office in September.
The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), led by Hatoyama, defeated the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) by more than 300 seats in the 480-seat lower house of parliament in the election on Friday.
Min Nyo, a secretary in the Burma Office Japan, an activist group, told The Irrawaddy on Monday he believed Japan will take a tougher stance toward the military government and offer more support for pro-democracy activists.

Members of the Burma Office and the Japanese Trade Union Confederation will meet with newly elected officials to discuss policy changes toward Burma, said Min Nyo.
A Japanese Labor Union office official, who asked not to be named, said, “We will request the Democrat Party change the official policy on Burma. We plan to meet elected leaders in the future and ask them to support economic sanctions and not to recognize the junta’s new constitution.

However, Shwe Ba, a Japanese freelance journalist, said, “They [Democrat Party] have said many things before. I don’t think they will do everything they say.”
Shwe Ba said that a weakness of the Japanese government’s current policy toward Burma is its lack of support for economic sanctions.

“It’s very important to block them [the regime],” he said. “Burmese democracy activists need to discuss with Japanese politicians ways to put pressure on the Burmese regime.”
Yukio Hatoyama is believed to be a strong supporter of the Burma democracy movement in Japan. He talked with pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the telephone when she was released from house arrest in 2002.

Hatoyama attended a meeting early this year in Japan with several Burmese ethnic leaders and said that American and Japanese foreign policy on Burma should be the same. Currently, Japan does not support economic sanctions.
In July, Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone told Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win at the Asean Regional Forum in Thailand Aung San Suu Kyi should be released from prison and Burma’s national election in 2010 should be free and fair...

After the Suu Kyi verdict, the Japanese foreign minister said in statement that Japan was deeply disappointed and called for the release of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
Japan is one of Burma’s main donor nations. It provided Burma with more than US $2.96 billion from 1999 to 2006 in development assistance, according to Japan officials.

Wednesday September 2, 2009, 11:52 am
TY Ben, signed
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Friday September 4, 2009, 3:26 pm

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Sunday September 20, 2009, 8:31 am
"Human Rights Report Showcases Political Prisoners " (Irrawaddy)
A new Human Rights Watch report dramatically showcased the rise in political prisoners in Burma one day after anti-sanction Sen Jim Webb met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The 35-page report, “Burma’s Forgotten Prisoners,” features dozens of prominent political activists, Buddhist monks, labor activists, journalists and artists arrested since peaceful political protests in 2007 and sentenced to draconian prison terms after unfair trials.
Sen Jim Webb met with Clinton on Tuesday to present his views on lifting US sanctions and engaging the junta.
At a news conference in Washington on Wednesday upon the release of the report, US Sen Barbara Boxer said, “The Burmese government should not be rewarded for its bad behavior.”

While Boxer did not directly refer to the views of Webb, who last month became the first US lawmaker in a decade to visit Burma, it was clear that she did not support her Senate colleague’s approach.
Boxer said the junta is intent on ruling Burma with an iron fist and a disregard for basic human rights and democracy.
Webb, who met Sen-Gen Than Shwe and Aung San Suu Kyi during his trip, has been advocating a more open US policy towards Burma.

It is understood that Webb shared his thoughts with Clinton and details of his meetings with Than Shwe and Suu Kyi. The State Department did not comment on the meeting.
In the report, Human Rights Watch said that Burma’s military government should release all political prisoners.
“Burma’s generals are planning elections next year that will be a sham if their opponents are in prison,” said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.

“Despite recent conciliatory visits by UN and foreign officials, the military government is actually increasing the number of critics it is throwing into its squalid prisons,” he said.
Boxer said: “We have all seen what this military dictatorship is capable of: we have heard the stories and seen too many images of bloody crackdowns in the streets, of protestors being beaten, of prisoners being tortured, of basic necessities being denied to the Burmese people in the face of natural disaster and tragedy.”