All I can think about lately is Burma. I can't get this country on the coast out of my mind.
I want to free Aung San Suu Kyi and liberate Burma. And I feel so small, and then I think of Aung San; an unsung hero. This is the first time in a long time that i have really been passionate about something and I think that says a lot about the situation. So here is the break down....
Aung San Suu Kyi is a nobel peace prize winner who is now being kept on house arrest under the order of Than Shwe, the Burma dictator. Aung San won through election the place as Prime Minister, but was denied the title by Than Shwe. Aung San is the only Peace Prize winner to be held captive. She is the voice of Burma. A beautiful woman with big dreams for her people. It pains me to hear of her story.
Than Shwe, dictator of Burma is leading the Junta (military), burning over 2,700 eastern Burma villages. Conducting mass rape as a weapon of war. The Junta has over 70,000 child soldiers; the more than any other military has ever had. Killing innocent women,children and buddist monks. The government has shut down communication with the outside world; disconnecting the internet, forbidding the public to have cameras and refusing medical aid from Doctors without Boarders and other like organizations that give free aid to under developed countries. Hiv/ AIDS is becoming an issue in Burma as well as many other diseases.
Years back Burma was hit by a cyclone; Than Shwe refused international aid. He wants no outsiders in. It is approximated that the cyclone left 2.5 MILLION homeless and displaced.
Some villages/ towns including the capitol now have dusk-till-dawn curfews. Than Shwe is a modern day Hitler. Than Shwe is conducting ethnic cleansing.
The UN has yet to put Burma on the formal agenda. China, an ally of Burma has used its Veto power to keep the UN out of Burma. China is supplying Than Shwe with its military power and money. Burma has agreed to sell its gas to China at a reduced price, and rejected a higher price offered from India. We must fix this! We must urge the UN to do something. We cannot let China continue to help Than Shwe facilitate his dictatorship.
There is so much more to this story than what i have time to write. But do you get a small glimpse of the picture?
Aung San Suu Kyi has called us to use our liberty to give them theirs.
So what can WE do?
Educate Ourselves. http://uscampaignforburma.org/index.php
Call the UN & Officials into action. http://www.unscburma.org/Petition.php
Organize. http://uscampaignforburma.org/take-action
Please help Burma. They need us. They need you.
I want to free Aung San Suu Kyi and liberate Burma. And I feel so small, and then I think of Aung San; an unsung hero. This is the first time in a long time that i have really been passionate about something and I think that says a lot about the situation. So here is the break down....
Aung San Suu Kyi is a nobel peace prize winner who is now being kept on house arrest under the order of Than Shwe, the Burma dictator. Aung San won through election the place as Prime Minister, but was denied the title by Than Shwe. Aung San is the only Peace Prize winner to be held captive. She is the voice of Burma. A beautiful woman with big dreams for her people. It pains me to hear of her story.
Than Shwe, dictator of Burma is leading the Junta (military), burning over 2,700 eastern Burma villages. Conducting mass rape as a weapon of war. The Junta has over 70,000 child soldiers; the more than any other military has ever had. Killing innocent women,children and buddist monks. The government has shut down communication with the outside world; disconnecting the internet, forbidding the public to have cameras and refusing medical aid from Doctors without Boarders and other like organizations that give free aid to under developed countries. Hiv/ AIDS is becoming an issue in Burma as well as many other diseases.
Years back Burma was hit by a cyclone; Than Shwe refused international aid. He wants no outsiders in. It is approximated that the cyclone left 2.5 MILLION homeless and displaced.
Some villages/ towns including the capitol now have dusk-till-dawn curfews. Than Shwe is a modern day Hitler. Than Shwe is conducting ethnic cleansing.
The UN has yet to put Burma on the formal agenda. China, an ally of Burma has used its Veto power to keep the UN out of Burma. China is supplying Than Shwe with its military power and money. Burma has agreed to sell its gas to China at a reduced price, and rejected a higher price offered from India. We must fix this! We must urge the UN to do something. We cannot let China continue to help Than Shwe facilitate his dictatorship.
There is so much more to this story than what i have time to write. But do you get a small glimpse of the picture?
Aung San Suu Kyi has called us to use our liberty to give them theirs.
So what can WE do?
Educate Ourselves. http://uscampaignforburma.org/index.php
Call the UN & Officials into action. http://www.unscburma.org/Petition.php
Organize. http://uscampaignforburma.org/take-action
Please help Burma. They need us. They need you.