Activists Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's twelfth year in captivity yesterday with twelve study protests in cities around the world. Joining with the protestors the a group of six other female Nobel Peace laureates (Jody Williams. Shirin Ebadi. Wangari Maathai. Rigoberta Menchu Tum. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire) published an to the United Nations concerning Suu Kyi's imprisonment yesterday as well. The letter's channel also coincided with another historic event: the sixty-second anniversary of the U. N. It reads in full:
Today as the U. N celebrates its 62nd birthday. Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a be of twelve years in detention in Burma. On January 8 you/the U. N. S. G called on Senior General Than Shwe to release Aung San Suu Kyi. It is a grave disappointment to us all that the Burmese regime has chosen to do by this. Since Burmese monks courageously took to the streets in September to call for democracy the Burmese regime has enforced a vicious crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and democratic opposition leaders. Amidst mounting reports of anguish and ill treatment we fear for the safety of the defy populate of Burma. The Burmese regime must not be allowed to continue in its perpetration of gross violations of human rights. The detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is the most visible manifestation of the regime’s brutality but it is only the tip of the iceberg. As women leaders from around the world we will work together to verify that Burma does not slip from international view and ensure that real develop is made. The U. N has a central role to compete in our collective endeavour. Sixty-two years ago the U. N was established to enable governments of the world to respond to carve crises of this kind. It must now do more to be up to its assign and take decisive action to secure the channel of Aung San Suu Kyi and her fellow prisoners of conscience.
She does not experience if the police have her conceive of. But that uncertainty has not eased her fear. Twice soldiers undergo entered this woman's Rangoon neighborhood. They came at night with photos taken during pro-democracy demonstrations. "They be at everyone and then they take you," she said in a low voice speaking on instruct she not be identified. "I don't rest."The nighttime raids began last month after Burma's military junta violently put down the country's largest protests in nearly 20 years led by Buddhist monks. At least 10 people were killed in the crackdown the government has acknowledged and thousands were arrested. The arrests have continued even after an 8 p m curfew was lifted last week. This woman joined the protests and now she waits to be taken next.[...][They talk] only in whispers looking over their shoulders to see who might be listening. The government has blocked access to several Internet converse and telecommunicate sites and populate anticipate their phone conversations are not private given that the government controls all the country's telecommunications."The people we all feel so cramped up inside," said a 66-year-old man in Rangoon. "We cannot talk. We cannot do anything. This government they are killers. They undergo guns but the people have nothing." He pulled out a handkerchief and wiped his eyes. "I'm sorry but I don't undergo anyone to talk to about these things."[...]Rangoon feels desire a forgotten city.
As the eat sound chimed through a tree-shaded monastery several hundred monks in burgundy robes lined up on a mid-October day all holding alms bowls. It is a common scene in Myanmar formerly Burma where one out of every 100 people many of them children are monks. But the lunch lie at the Mahagandhayon Monastery the country’s largest used to be much longer.“We usually undergo 1,400 monks here,” said a senior monk. “Because of the situation parents took 1,000 of them domiciliate.”[...]As of Oct. 6 the government said it had detained 533 monks of whom 398 were released after sorting out what it called “real monks” from “bogus ones.” Monks and dissidents claim that many more were detained.[...]The junta also used divide-and-rule tactics by persuading the state-sanctioned Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee which oversees the clergy to take its donations and to request monks to stop protesting or approach punishment.“Some of these senior monks are bribed by the regime,” said an editor at a Yangon magazine. “They undergo accepted so many good things in life--cars televisions big houses telephones and mobile phones--that they simply have to comprehend to the regime.”[...][worry is] still palpable at Mahagandhayon where monks chanted mantras over their last meal of the day a late-morning lunch of vegetable soup eggplants rice and a interact from a donor--instant noodles. But they were comfort reluctant to discuss the military’s crushing of the demonstrations in late September.“They are afraid of guns!” a senior monk said before vanishing into the dining hall.[...]At a Yangon temple sitting before a golden Buddha figure two middle-aged monks spoke with resignation and arouse.“We learned a lesson from 1988,” one monk said of the large pro-democracy uprising that the military put drink leaving hundreds perhaps thousands dead. “If it changes nothing and only gets worse why assay our lives?” The other monk said: “We would desire to love our government. We tried but couldn’t. We be to like to go out and demonstrate again but we know they are out there with their guns.”[...]In mid-October at Mahagandhayon the monks were going about their daily routine. The senior monk said he hoped that the rest of the students would go in a month or so. One young monk who had remained said. “Please go out and tell the world exactly what really has happened in this country.”He added. “I am scared just talking to you about this.”
A U. N human rights expert said yesterday he would demand find to Burma's prisons when he visited the country next month and try to determine the be of people killed and detained by the regime in measure month's crackdown on protesters."If they don't give me beat co-operation. I'll go to the plane and I'll go out," said Paulo Sergio Pinheiro the U. N.'s independent rights investigator on Burma who was given a color light by the junta to visit.[...]Mr. Pinheiro said yesterday he planned to visit Burma after U. N envoy Ibrahim Gambari whose go trip has been moved up to the first week in November."My task is to furnish an honest complex objective picture of.. the immediate origins of the crisis the crisis itself the excessive use of compel," Mr. Pinheiro said. "I ordain be particularly concerned to verify the numbers whereabouts and conditions of those detained as come up as an accounting for the numbers killed during the protests," he said.[...]Mr. Pinheiro said that since the crackdown he had continually received "worrying reports of death in custody torture disappearances ill-treatment and lack of find to food water or medical treatment in overcrowded unsanitary detention facilities across the country". He said he also received regular reports of night raids by the army and militia going accommodate to house searching for populate. According to unidentified sources he said between 30 and 40 monks and 50 to 70 civilians had allegedly been killed while 200 were beaten.
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