Aung San Suu Kyi Trial Daily Protest at Burma Embassy (20/5/2009)

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Aung San Suu Kyi Trial Daily Protest at Burma Embassy (20/5/2009) — Fotopedia

During Nobel Peace Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi's show trial in Burma, there was a daily protest during weekdays outside the Burma Embassy in London. The protesters called for the release of All Political Prisoners in Burma. There are over 2,100 known political prisoners in Burma.

Protesters also called for respect for human rights and ethnic minorities in Burma. The corrupt military junta is notorious for its genocide against ethnic minorities, forced labour, use of child soldiers, ill treatment of Buddhist monks, Muslims and Christians.

Over 3,300 Karen villages have been destroyed by the junta. Already displaced Karen villagers faced renewed mortar attacks in June 2009, causing thousands to flee to Thailand, despite the international attention already on Burma, due to Aung San Suu Kyi's trial.

Thousands of Refugees Flee Ler Per Her Camp as Burma Army Attack Begins
www.freeburmarangers.org/Reports/2009/20090605.html

This year ASEAN hailed the creation of a regional human rights body as a historic first step toward confronting abuses in the region. ASEAN should get to work in Burma: stopping the genocide of the Karen people, widespread oppression of ethnic minorities, abuse of the Rohingya Muslims, child soldiers, forced labour and forced conscription into the army. A clear milestone by which ASEAN's regional human rights policy will be judged is whether ASEAN can even help free more than 2,100 known fellow political prisoners in Burma as well as Nobel Peace prize winning Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma Campaign UK page on Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma News:
www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/campaigns/aung-s...
www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/burma/news

Thousands left messages for Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th birthday:
www.64forsuu.org/

The main website for Burma's Political Prisoners:
www.fbppn.net/ - the campaign site
www.aappb.org/ - most of the news of political prisoners comes from APPB, that Amnesty International etc uses

Burma News: (RSS feed works well on mobile phones or browsers with RSS readers)
burmanewsnetwork.blogspot.com/

Wikipedia Article

Aung San Suu Kyi — See encyclopedia photos

Aung San Suu Kyi, AC (Burmese: အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany, Burmese pronunciation: [àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì]; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy. In the 1990 general election, her National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010.

Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding by the government of India and the International Simón Bolívar Prize from the government of Venezuela. In 2007, the Government of Canada made her an honorary citizen of that country, one of only five people ever to receive the honor. In 2011, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal.

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