Reacting on the extension of house arrest for another 6 months of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, activists in the Philippines today said that the civil society is doing its share aimed at bringing back democracy in Burma. They however slammed the United Nations and the ASEAN for not doing theirs enough.
Reacting on the extension of house arrest for another 6 months of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, activists in the Philippines today said that the civil society is doing its share aimed at bringing back democracy in Burma. They however slammed the United Nations and the ASEAN for not doing theirs enough.
Egoy Bans of Free Burma Coalition-Philippines and Coordinator of the Burma campaign of the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) said that the UN, the ASEAN and all concerned international institutions should now begin re-thinking their policies on Burma.
He explained, “We told you so. The junta gets its strength from the inaction of the outside world. Civil society is doing its job. We just hope that the UN and the ASEAN should complement our efforts.”
“This is a big challenge especially for the UN and ASEAN. When are they going to say this is enough? This is more than freeing Aung San Suu Kyi, this about saving the peoples of Burma from the hands of their brutal government.” He added.
TO THE JUNTA: CONSULT A DOCTOR
For repeatedly extending the house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, activists in the Philippines also today called the Burmese ruling military regime out of this world and advised the junta to better step down.
“What else should we call this decision to again extend the detention of a non-violent leader like Aung San Suu Kyi? What’s running in the minds of the ruling generals? Their decision to extend Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest is baseless. It is unfair to the peoples of Burma, it is unfair to the peoples of the world,” said Bans.
“Extending Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest is just the junta’s show of power-tripping. We have to stop this madmen. The junta always decides on things irrationally and it has a world of its own that simply ignores reality or world opinion,” Bans added.
Burma’s military government extended on Friday the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another year. A government official confirmed that a car seen entering Aung San Suu Kyi’s house Friday afternoon and officials presented with Aung San Suu Kyi a new detention order, which will keep her confined to her residence for a fifth straight year.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader of National League for Democracy, has spent 11 of the past 17 years in detention. Her current one-year detention order is supposed to expire on Sunday, May 27.
She has been held continuously since May 30, 2003, when her motorcade was attacked by a pro-junta mob during a political tour of northern Burma. This event is popularly known as the Depayin Massacre in Burma” where thousands of activists were hurt and jailed including Aung San Suu Kyi.
COWARDICE
Bans stressed, “This extension of house arrest clearly reveals the junta’s cowardice to face the leader of the opposition in Burma. But the junta is digging its own grave because this action will surely spark more disgust inside Burma and more protests worldwide.”
FBC-Phils and Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition-(APSOC) on Friday held a rally in Makati City Philippines and urged delegates of the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) to call for Aung San Suu Kyi’s immmediate and unconditional release from house arrest.
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