Archive for May 28th, 2008
Global outrage
Bangkok Post
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Worldwide condemnation has followed Burma’s six-month extension of the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with officials from the UN, EU and US expressing frustration and regret.
Suu Kyi has been under continual house arrest for the past five years. Since returning to the country in 1988, she has spent 12 years under house arrest.
Early Tuesday, police arrested 18 supporters of the Nobel peace laureate who were protesting her detention, opposition sources said.
The latest extension of her open-ended detention came on the 18th anniversary of the landslide election of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in the country’s last general election. The junta refused to recognise those election results.
In New York, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the extension “regretful.”
“The sooner restriction on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political figures are lifted, the sooner Myanmar will be able to move towards inclusive national reconciliation, the restoration of democracy and full respect of human rights,” Ban said.
The UN uses the junta’s name for Burma.
The UN has been demanding the junta open up the country to international relief aid to victims of the cyclone Nargis, which has killed more than 70,000 and left another 50,000 still missing.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana called the arrest extension “very sad and frustrating,” coming at a time when so many countries and organisations were focusing on providing assistance to the people affected by the cyclone.
“The EU is doing its best to this effect. However, it continues to be deeply concerned by the political situation. Transition to democracy remains important for the future of Burma/Myanmar,” Solana said.
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU’s external relations commissioner, said she was “personally disappointed that a historic opportunity was missed to give a sign of reconciling political life in Burma at a time where national and social cohesion, and solidarity and dialogue, are more needed than ever.”
US President George W Bush said he was “deeply troubled” by the decision of the ruling junta to extend the detention.
The EU and US called upon the regime to release Suu Kyi and all political prisoners. Bush repeated past calls for the government to “begin a genuine dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi.”
The 18 NLD members were arrested by plainclothes’ policemen as they marched from their headquarters to Suu Kyi’s Rangoon home. They were taken in two vehicles to an unknown destination.
Suu Kyi and Tin O, party vice-chariman, have been under house arrest since May 30, 2003, when authorities charged her with threatening national security after pro-government thugs attacked her and her followers in Depayin, northern Burma, killing 70 NLD supporters.
According to Burmese law, the government cannot keep prisoners charged with undermining national security under detention for more than five years.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention extended
Yesterday, the regime extended Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention again. No formal announcement was made, but reports say the detention is for at least another six months. She has now spent over 12 of the last 18 years under house arrest. Her current period of house arrest began in 2003. The regime is once again breaking its own laws by extending her detention for a total of more than five years. The State Protection Law 1975, under which she is held, only allows the regime to detain her for a maximum of five years. Around 20 members of the National League for Democracy were also arrested yesterday as they marched to her home to call for her release.
Even though UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was in Burma in the run-up to Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention expiring, he did not call on Burma’s generals to release her. In fact, he didn’t even mention her name. The international community is failing to put pressure on the regime because it is afraid it will affect aid deals. However, the current humanitarian crisis is being caused by a political problem, a dictatorship that refuses to allow aid to reach the people and Aung San Suu Kyi is key to solving that political problem.
Cylcone update
More than three weeks after the devastating cyclone in Burma, at least 200,000 people are feared dead and 2.5 million people remain in urgent need of aid. Most people have still not received the aid they desperately need because the regime continues to deny aid workers free access to operate in the areas most severely affected by the cyclone. Following reports that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had secured agreement from Burma’s generals for aid workers to be allowed into the country, it was hoped that things would change. However, it is now clear that the regime is not keeping its word. We continue to receive reports that aid workers are being denied visas and unable to operate freely in the worst affected areas. The US, UK and France are still being blocked from using their resources to deliver the large scale emergency and medical assistance needed.
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Myanmar keeps Suu Kyi detained; aid to continue
28 May 2008
YANGON, Myanmar – Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began a sixth year under detention Wednesday as foreign donors said aid would continue to flow into the military ruled nation to save cyclone victims.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed regret over Suu Kyi’s continued arrest while praising “a new spirit of cooperation” between the junta and the international community in the aid effort.
In Washington, President Bush said Tuesday he was “deeply troubled” by the extension of Suu Kyi’s house arrest but stressed the U.S. would continue to provide aid to the victims.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years, had her detention extended by one year Tuesday, a government official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
On Wednesday, her National League for Democracy party denounced the extension as “illegal,” saying it would launch an appeal. Party spokesman Nyan Win said the regime should also open a public hearing on the case.
Suu Kyi has long been the symbol of the regime’s heavy-handed intolerance of opposition and the focus of a worldwide campaign lobbying for her release.
Myanmar’s heavily censored newspapers made no mention of Suu Kyi’s detention being extended and the government did not explain under what laws she could be held for another year. A 1975 law says that people deemed security threats can be detained for a maximum of five years without trial.
Outside Suu Kyi’s home, security returned to normal Wednesday. An extra row of barricades that was erected Tuesday was removed, leaving the usual single fortified barricade blocking the roads that lead to her lakeside home.
The extension of Suu Kyi’s detention came as Myanmar fended off worldwide criticism for its inadequate aid effort for the survivors of the May 2-3 Cyclone Nargis.
The storm left an estimated 2.4 million people in desperate need of food, shelter and medical care, according to the U.N., and the government says it killed 78,000 people and left 56,000 missing. The U.N. said cyclone devastation has forced postponement of the new school term in the delta for one month, to July.
Only after intense international pressure and a personal appeal by Ban, who visited Myanmar last week to meet with junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe, did the government relent and say it would allow foreign relief workers to travel to the Irrawaddy delta, the area hardest hit by the cyclone.
The U.N. says some of their foreign staffers have begun moving into the delta and emergency food supplies are being ferried in on its helicopters.
“Some international aid workers and NGOs have already gone into the regions of the Irrawaddy delta, without any problem,” Ban told reporters in New York on Tuesday. “I hope — and I believe — that this marks a new spirit of cooperation between Myanmar and the international community as a whole.”
The French warship Mistral landed Wednesday on the resort island of Phuket, Thailand, to unload some 1,000 tons of humanitarian supplies for shipment by the United Nations to Myanmar.
The regime has forbidden direct aid by warships of France, the United States and Great Britain, which have been standing by off the Myanmar coast to deliver the assistance. Myanmar’s state media has voiced fears of a U.S. invasion to grab the country’s oil reserves.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Hasan Wirayuda said Suu Kyi’s continued detention went against the “goodwill of the international community” in its efforts to aid Myanmar in its moment of need.
Myanmar’s leaders are leery of foreign aid workers because they fear an influx of outsiders could undermine their control. The junta is also hesitant to have its people see aid coming directly from countries such as the United States, which it has long treated as a hostile power seeking to invade.
But the ruling generals have long regarded Suu Kyi, daughter of the country’s martyred independence leader Gen. Aung San, as the biggest threat to their power.
Her National League for Democracy party is the country’s largest legal opposition group, and it retains the loyalty of millions of citizens despite two decades of constant repression.
U.N. efforts to spur dialogue in the wake of pro-democracy rallies violently supressed by the military in September have failed to make progress.
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Pictures (9) Thanks, donors, you save my life
The Myanmar cyclone disaster. Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors have said, as the United Nations reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
A cyclone-affected family brave the rain as they live in a temporary structure in the Shwepoukkan area of Yangon. Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
This photo taken on May 25 shows aid being distributed to cyclone-affected families living in temporary accommodation along a road in the Shwepoukkan area of Yangon. Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
This photo taken on May 25 shows cyclone-affected children in the rain eating food they received in the Shwepoukkan area of Yangon, where displaced people have camped along a road. Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
Cyclone-affected families line up for handouts from monks in the Shwepoukkan area of Yangon on May 25. Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
(AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)
Private cars and trucks are seen on a road leading to Myanmar’s cyclone devastated Irrawaddy delta in this picture taken over the weekend, May 2008.
This photo taken on May 25 shows cyclone-affected families sheltered from the rain, living in temporary accommodation along a road in the Shwepoukkan area of Yangon. Foreign aid workers Tuesday pressed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone.
Saw Htu, who lost all his cattle during cyclone Nargis, poses in his damaged house in Denongho near Pyapon on May 20, in an isolated area only accessible by boat which received neither government or foreign aid. Foreign aid workers pressed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone.
Aid is distributed to cyclone-affected families living in temporary accommodation along a road in the Shwepoukkan area of Yangon, May 25. The National League for Democracy party has denounced the regime for holding a referendum after Cyclone Nargis.
A man casts his vote for the constitutional referendum in Hlaing Thayar township, west of Yangonon May 24, 2008. The United States said Sunday it was “dismayed” that Myanmar’s military rulers had held a second round of voting on their draft constitution in regions still devastated by the cyclone.
A girl leans on a boat in the cyclone-hit Kungyangon, south of Yangon on May 24. Foreign aid workers pressed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone.
A cyclone affected woman washes clothes in a makeshift hut in Kungyangon, south of Yangon on May 24. Foreign aid workers pressed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone.
Foreign aid workers (L) arrive in Kungyangon, south of Yangon, on May 25. Foreign aid workers pressed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone.
Cyclone survivors queue for the rice from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Cyclone survivors have lunch from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Cyclone survivors have lunch from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Cyclone survivors drink clean water from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
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Cyclone survivors drink clean water from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
A cyclone survivor has lunch from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Cyclone survivors have lunch from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Cyclone survivors queue for the medical treatment from local voluntary doctor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Cyclone survivors receive medical treatment from local voluntary doctor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
Local donators prepare the bags of rice to the cyclone survivor at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008. More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance.
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Survivors of Cyclone Nargis wait by a road in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta in this picture taken over the weekend, May 2008.
A woman cuts a coconut next to a destroyed house in Kungyangon, south of Yangon on May 24. Foreign aid workers Tuesday pressed into Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, testing the junta’s pledge to open up areas where one million people have yet to receive aid three weeks after the cyclone.
Private cars and trucks are seen on a road leading to Myanmar’s cyclone devastated Irrawaddy delta in this picture taken over the weekend, May 2008. Foreign aid workers headed for the Cyclone Nargis-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether army-ruled Myanmar will honour a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement.
Survivors of Cyclone Nargis look at a truck loaded with emergency supplies in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta in this picture taken over the weekend, May 2008. Foreign aid workers headed for the Cyclone Nargis-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether army-ruled Myanmar will honour a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement.
A damaged home lies near the town of Dedaye in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta in this picture taken over the weekend, May 2008. Foreign aid workers headed for the Cyclone Nargis-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether army-ruled Myanmar will honour a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement.
World Focus on Burma (28 May 08)
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Ban Ki-moon has expressed his disappointment at the decision
InTheNews.co.uk, UK - “The sooner restrictions on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political figures are lifted, the sooner Myanmar (Burma) will be able to move towards inclusive … |
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Salt and Fisheries Industries at a Standstill
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - Laputta Township— perhaps the area most affected by the killer cyclone—was the center of Burma’s salt industry, producing salt for the entire country, … |
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“Race against time” to plant Myanmar rice crop
Reuters - … the main rice crop in the delta, the “rice bowl of the Asia” in the days when Myanmar was called Burma and administered as part of the British empire. … |
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Marni Soupcoff on ‘Panties for Peace’ in Burma
National Post, Canada - by Raze Those wierdos in command in Myanmar have no idea what it was like to be Tom Jones singing in Montreal… by ZeeBC We have to be careful that we are … |
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Panties sought for Myanmar protest
United Press International - The Quebec Women’s Federation and the activist group Rights and Democracy claim the secretive military leaders in the country formerly known as Burma are … |
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Indonesia joins in criticism of Myanmar over Suu Kyi
Reuters India, India - MANILA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s foreign minister chided Myanmar on Wednesday for extending the detention of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, … |
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Human rights a global mess: Amnesty
National Post, Canada - The Chinese government has used its influence on Burma to open its door to the UN” “So there is potential there for China to positively use the Olympics to … |
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SEAPA calls for continued pressure for release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Thailand - The Southeast Asian Press Alliance strongly condemns the continued detention of Burma’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and calls on the international … |
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Leaders are eroding the principles of human rights
Independent, UK - Human rights are being flagrantly abused in flashpoints such as Burma, Darfur, Zimbabwe and Gaza and established and emerging powers such as the US and … |
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Burma’s military government yesterday renewed the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Mrs Suu Kyi has been in detention continuously …
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The banquet was originally planned to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, but following the disasters in Myanmar (Burma) and China, …
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Condemning Burmese Junta on Suu Kyi’s house arrest extension
Newstrack India, India - The international media has gloomed on the alienated country soon after the cyclone Nargis had devastating vast areas of Burma, also known as Myanmar, … |
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Refusing to allow aide workers into the country, thus hindering needed help and supplies to its citizens, the military junta ruling Burma has committed …
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Burma authorities prolong Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest and round up supporters
Myanmar keeps Suu Kyi detained, but aid continues
YANGON, Myanmar — Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began a sixth year under detention Wednesday as foreign donors said aid would continue to flow into the military-ruled nation to save cyclone victims.
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A poster of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is seen outside the headquarters of the National League for Democracy in Yangonon on May 10. Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
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WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday Myanmar’s junta missed a chance to start a dialogue with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by extending her house arrest but this would not affect post-cyclone aid efforts.
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