Beaten and Burned Alive – High school kids in Burma. by risa
An eyewitness from inside Burma reports that injured protesters are being taken to the Yay Way cemetery outside of Rangoon, and burned alive in an effort to destroy the evidence of the genocide occurring.
This shocking report comes only hours after news that dozens of high school students were shot and beaten to death.
Regardless, the junta continue to claim responsibility for only 9 deaths. They have cut off internet and telephone connections to the country almost entirely, to shield their horrific actions from world scrutiny.
China and India need to do more then urge restraint and turn a blind eye hoping for oil, and the UK and Canada are little better.. Their action – lack thereof – stems I believe from a desperate sense of how bad their position is in terms of environment. With resources depleted and environmental disasters almost every week nations are trying to keep up an image of themselves as super powers while seeing the collapse that looms pretty damn near inevitable on the horizon. With this in mind however, and calmly considered, they must realize that supporting violence and cruelty in the hopes of profiting from the regime that commits it is a terrible short term option, only that only builds up hatred against them and only shortens the length of days the people will let them rule. It relies on some imagined future date where these insane-with-power brutal leaders will suddenly decide to negotiate rationally. Which is like thinking if you support a drug addict who abuses their kids you’ll be able to trust them with your own later. It’s ridiculous and vile.
Please help make peaceful public noise – Here’s an Amnesty International Petition.
Here’s the world’s Facebook group for supporters.
And here is the email address for the Olympics – this is one area where we can really exert pressure:
China has played a role in Tibet, Darfur, and Burma (…) I suggest we e-mail International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge to reconsider Beijing 2008 in lieu of China’s recent Security Council veto on Burma: pressoffice@olympic.org
(…)“China is the puppet-master of Burma. The Olympics is the only real lever we have to make China act. The civilised world must seriously consider shunning China by using the Beijing Olympics to send the clear message that such abuses of human rights are not acceptable.” Edward McMillan-Scott, vice-president of the European Parliament
September 30th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Human rights groups and exiles who monitor events in the closed country said there were small demonstrations Saturday, and Reuters reported that shots were fired to disperse a group of 100 youths.
But the flow of information from Myanmar has been slowed by interruptions to Internet connections, and the monitoring groups said they were having difficulty reaching their contacts.
“They don’t want the world to see what is going on there,” a White House spokesman, Scott Stanzel, said Friday.
Little is known about the hundreds of people who were pushed into trucks during the demonstrations or about the monks who were hauled during the night from their monasteries. Prisons are reported to be overcrowded and detention centers have been created in schools and other public buildings, human rights groups said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/30/news/myanmar.php
September 30th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Dear friends,
Burma’s generals have brought their brutal iron hand down on peaceful monks and protesters — but in response, a massive global outcry is gathering pace. The roar of global public opinion is being heard in hundreds of protests outside Chinese and Burmese embassies, people round the world wearing the monks’ color red, and on the internet– where our petition has exploded to over 200,000 signers in just 72 hours.
People power can win this. Burma’s powerful sponsor China can halt the crackdown, if it believes that its international reputation and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing depend on it. To convince the Chinese government and other key countries, Avaaz is launching a major global and Asian ad campaign on Wednesday, including full page ads in the Financial Times and other newspapers, that will deliver our message and the number of signers. We need 1 million voices to be the global roar that will get China’s attention. If every one of us forwards this email to just 20 friends, we’ll reach our target in the next 72 hours. Please sign the petition at the link below -if you haven’t already- and forward this email to everyone you care about:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/t.php
The pressure is working – already, there are signs of splits in the Burmese Army, as some soldiers refuse to attack their own people. The brutal top General, Than Shwe, has reportedly moved his family out of the country – he must fear his rule may crumble.
The Burmese people are showing incredible courage in the face of horror. We’re broadcasting updates on our effort over the radio into Burma itself – telling the people that growing numbers of us stand with them. Let’s do everything we can to help them – we have hours, not days, to do it. Please sign the petition and forward this to at least 20 friends right now. Scroll down our petition page for details of times and events to join in the massive wave of demonstrations happening around the world at Burmese and Chinese embassies.
With hope and determination,
Ricken, Paul, Pascal, Graziela, Galit, Ben, Milena and the whole Avaaz Team
September 30th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Women in Burma have been the target of a systematic campaign to use rape and sexual violence by the Burmese army, in order to punish entire communities for insurgency activities. In May 2002 the Shan Womens Actions Network (SWAN) and the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) released shocking report, which documented the systematic use of rape and sexual violence by the Burmese military in Shan State. The report has received widespread international attention, for the first time publically exposed the military regime’s brutality against the women of Burma.
http://www.cfob.org/women.html
September 30th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
“Unless and until Beijing, (New) Delhi and Moscow stand in unison in pressuring the SPDC for change, little will change,” says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University.
“The SPDC has virtually invented its own ‘great game’ in which it has become a masterful manipulator and has been winning to the consternation of the wider world,” he said.
However, none of the three powers seem prepared to go beyond words in their dealings with the junta, ruling out sanctions as they jostle for a chance to get at Myanmar’s bountiful and largely untapped natural resources, especially its oil and gas. The regime, Thitinan says, adroitly plays one off against the other.
Japan, the biggest aid donor, has also said it would not impose sanctions, even though one of its journalists was shot in the demonstrations.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/30/asia/AS-GEN-Myanmar-Losing-Hope.php
August 4th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Thanks! Really interesting. I wish i could spend my time on writing articles…just have no time for it.
March 14th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I am 13 and i personally think that this govenment is sick.
What is also sick is that the neighboring countries won’t help
or i should say isnt helping to there best abilities. It sucks to know girls my age are being raped just for fun(and to send a message to other villages).