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After 13 years of detention, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been jailed again on trumped up charges by the brutal Burmese regime. Call on UN Secretary General to secure her and all political prisoners' release:
Burma's democracy leader and Nobel Peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been locked up on new trumped up charges, just days before her 13 years of detention was due to expire. She and thousands of fellow monks and students have been imprisoned for bravely challenging the brutal military regime with peaceful calls for democracy.
Risking danger to speak out for their jailed friends, Burmese activists are demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners and calling on the world to help. We have just six days to get a flood of petition signatures to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon calling on him to make their release a top priority -- he can make this a condition for renewed international engagement. Follow the link to sign the petition, and forward this email on to friends to ensure Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners are freed. Burmese activists will present the global petition to the media on May 26th:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_aung_san_suu_kyi
On May 14th, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and sent to jail, charged in connection with an American man who allegedly sneaked uninvited into the compound where she is being held in Yangon. The charges are absurd -- it is the Burmese military, now accusing her of breach of house arrest, that are responsible for the security of the compound. It is a pretext to keep her detained until after elections which are set for 2010.
The Burmese regime is renown for its vicious repression of any threat to full military control - thousands are in jail in inhumane conditions and denied any medical care, there are ongoing abuses of human rights, there is violent repression of ethnic groups, and over a million have been forced into refuge across the border.
Aung San Suu Kyi's is the greatest threat to the junta's hold on power. Her moral leadership of the democracy movement and the legacy of her landslide victory in 1990 elections means that she is the only figure who could face down the military in elections next year. She has been detained over and over again since 1988 -- under house arrest and allowed no contact with the outside world. But this scandalous new detention in the notorious Insein Prison without medical care could be very dangerous because she is seriously ill.
Sources say that the military regime is fearful of this unified and massive online call to the UN -- over 160 Burma exile and solidarity groups in 24 countries are participating in the campaign. And the Secretary General and key regional players that are looking to re-engage with the Burmese regime, can influence the fate of these prisoners. Last week Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said: 'Aung San Suu Kyi and all those that have a contribution to make to the future of their country must be free'. Let's overwhelm him with a global call to urgently act on his words and stop the arrests and brutality.
With hope
PS.
For more about Aung San Suu Kyi visit:
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/aboutburma/aung_san_suu_kyi.htm
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Comment by ToKaY-ToKeK on August 16, 2009 at 4:37pm -
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Comment by Orion girl (Patrícia) on August 1, 2009 at 6:13pm - A GREAT WOMAN!!!
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Comment by Rui Fritz on May 27, 2009 at 11:43am - We can,all together,we can change what is wrong,because the future are we and those future world is were we gonna live!!!So we have to fight against those wo want to finish with the human peace,human harmonity!Fight for a better world!!!
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Comment by Erik on May 26, 2009 at 10:13pm -
The goal was to get 400.000 people to sign the petition by the end of the 26th... which is today. 393.000 people have signed it as of now, so I guess we will fall short on our original goal. But it is a significant number nonetheless, and hopefully we'll still get the UN's attention on this matter
Thank you for your support Elentari, and thanks to everyone else who signed
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Comment by Elentari on May 26, 2009 at 7:40pm - Erik.. thanks for creating the group, and thanks a lot for your wonderfull and helpfufl contributions to hard candy and to the world. :) how is the petition going...?
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Comment by Erik on May 23, 2009 at 9:17pm
- We need 35000 more votes. Everyone please, pass the link to all your contacts!
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Comment by Erik on May 21, 2009 at 1:27pm
- I didnt know what would work better, so I created a group. since u already posted this as a blog I'll start sharing it on other sites. Thank you elentari
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Comment by Elentari on May 21, 2009 at 3:20am
- signed and passed it to my mailing list..u should make it a blog post so we could share it on myspace and facebook....I will add it as a blog post..:)
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Comment by ricardo peres on May 21, 2009 at 1:52am - it´s this the world where my son will grow... how can we change the old planet ...???
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Comment by Erik on May 20, 2009 at 8:04pm
- We have 6 days left!
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