Daw Aung San Suu,s answer to ASEAN,s “not interfere”

Aung San Suu Kyi said “There is no way that we can resolve our economic problems without a political situation”

“In this day and age we cannot isolate any country. We cannot say that we are not going to interfere in the internal affairs of a country because it’s got nothing to do with us. It has something to do with everybody. Those who claim that they will not interfere in the internal affairs of Burma do not hesitate to be involved economically in Burma. As long as they are involved economically, how can they say that they are not interfering in the internal affairs of our country ? If they are prepared to engage economically with our country, then they must also be prepared to do what they can to help us resolve our political problems. There is no way that we can resolve our economic problems without a political situation.”

(Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Elected Legitimate Leader)

In honour of Burma’s Legitimate Leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th Birthday, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will recall Aung San Suu Kyi’s dictum for 64 days.

Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.

Actually I had composed this song since after 8888. Now, I got some video clips about 8888 and got an idea to make a documentary clip about 8888 with my own song as a background music.

Please use this video clip or this song freely to support the recent struggle for Democracy.
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24-07-09 Lawyer U Nyan Win speaks about Daw Aung San Su Kyi’s trial videos.

24./25.July Karen-KNU News by thawthikho

Sat 25 Jul 2009, ကြန္းဟေဒ့
လြန္ခဲ့ေသာတစ္ပတ္က ဒီေကဘီေအႏွင့္ ေကပီအက္ဖ္ စစ္သား ၇၀ ေက်ာ္ ကို ေက အန္ယူက ဖမ္းဆီး လိိုက္သည့္ဟု သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ျပီးေနာက္မွာ ဇမိျမစ္ေခ်ာင္း တေလ်ွာက္ရွိ ၄င္းတို႕ဂိတ္မ်ားလည္း ႐ုပ္ သိမ္းသြားသည္ဟု ခရီးသည္မ်ားက ေျပာသည္။
ေကအိုင္စီသတင္းအရ ဒီေကဘီေအႏွင့္ ေကပီအက္ဖ္ စစ္သား ၈၀ ေက်ာ္ ကို ယခုလဆန္းပိုင္းအတြင္း ေကအန္ယူ တပ္မဟာ (၆) တြင္ လက္ ေအာက္ခံတပ္ရင္း (၁၆) ထံတြင္ လာေရာက္ပူးေပါင္းခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

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For the next seven days Ger Fitzgerald and three Burmese exiles living in Ireland will walk across the country in support of the Karen people, who are based on Burma’s eastern border.

Walk to highlight plight of Burmese
A seminarian today led a 200km walk to highlight the plight of the people of Burma.

For the next seven days Ger Fitzgerald and three Burmese exiles living in Ireland will walk across the country in support of the Karen people, who are based on Burma’s eastern border.

The sponsored walk — from the O’Connell Monument on O’Connell Street, Dublin, to the O’Connell Monument on O’Connell Street, Limerick — will also raise funds for Dr Cynthia Maung’s medical clinic in the Karen area.

The seminarian, who is based at St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, revealed he organised the event after watching a documentary on the attacks perpetrated by the Burmese ruling junta against the Karen people.

“I am delighted and privileged to undertake this walk in the company of my Burmese friends to raise awareness of the plight of the Karen people,” said Mr Fitzgerald, who is studying to become a priest.

“The selected route, from O’Connell Street in Dublin to O’Connell Street in Limerick, is inspired by the Great Emancipator, Daniel O’Connell.

“I hope that the Karen and all the people of Burma will be liberated in the very near future and will be free from poverty, fear and injustice.

Weekly Business Roundup (July 24, 2009) by IRRAWADDY

US Lawmakers Renew Import Ban on Burma for one More Year

A ban on imports from Burma has been renewed for one year by the US House of Representatives.

The ban affects a range of products but especially Burmese gemstones via third countries, said the Voice of America radio station.

The house action seeks to renew the import bans contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act, which was due to expire on July 26.

It comes as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that the United States would consider resuming investment and other economic links if the Burmese regime freed Aung San Suu Kyi.

The sponsor of the renewed import ban, New York Democrat Joseph Crowley, said it was justified because the “junta has also rejected recent diplomatic outreach” on the Suu Kyi issue.

Republican Kevin Brady of Texas was quoted by VOA as saying that although he regarded sanctions with “great skepticism,” they are “crafted to maximize their ability to effect change.”

The renewal was backed by the American Apparel & Footwear Association.

Under the act, however, President Barack Obama has the power to lift the trade sanctions if he considers that steps have been taken by the Burmese junta to improve human rights.

Aid for Burmese Nuclear Reactor Complies with Rules, says Moscow

Russia’s state-controlled Novosti news agency has declared that Moscow’s cooperation with Burma on commercial nuclear development does not contravene international treaties on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

The agency this week quoted a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, on the issue at the same time the US expressed concerns about a possible liaison between the Burmese and North Korean regimes.

Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, signed an agreement in 2007 to help construct a nuclear research center in Burma, and Moscow will stand by this agreement, Nesterenko said.

The deal, which is supposed to cost tens of millions of dollars, envisages developing a reactor with an energy capacity of 10 megawatts.

However, Novosti also noted that there had been virtually no practical development of the agreement since it was signed.

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