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Sunday September 23, 2007 21:04
by Quang Duc
The largest protests in twenty years in Burma have seen a reported 10,000 bare foot monks march today as part of a crowd estimated at up to 20,000 people. Some of the monks had greeted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the pacifist Nobel Peace laureate and house-arrested leader of the Burmese democracy movement at the gates of our prison-home at 54 University Avenue, Bahan 11201
Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Saturday.
In contrast today "the Hindu News" based in neighbouring India reports "A crowd of about 400 people led by monks peacefully gave up their attempt after being turned back at two different approaches, where police had placed barbed wire barricades". But everyone knows where that house-prison is.............
.........."The only real prison is fear, and
the only real freedom is freedom from fear." : Aung San Suu Kyi
As these pacifist protests enter their seventh day, monks are calling on the "lay" public to join them & increasingly that support is becoming evident.
links to international coverage -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7009323.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/world/asia/23cnd-myan...ml?hp
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200709232166.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A3BED8A3-612F-4F...4.htm
http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id...21953
Wikipedia biog of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi
Irish Burmese solidarity group -
http://www.burmaactionireland.org/
You can write and show your support for Pacifism & Democracy :
Aung San Suu Kyi
54 University Avenue
Bahan 11201
Yangon, Myanmar
Or you can write and show your opposition to the military junta through the nearest embassy of Burma / Myanmar to Ireland is in the UK
Embassy of the Union of Myanmar,
19 A, Charles St,
London W1J 5DX
UK
Tel : (44) 20 7499 8841
Fax : (44) 20 7629 4169
Email :memblondon@asl.com
