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A 14th Birthday in Prison
A protester stands behind mock prison bars during a picket at the Myanmar Embassy at Manila's financial district of Makati City, Philippines, to mark the 64th birthday of jailed Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has now spent 14 birthdays in prison.
Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated her 64th birthday in prison Friday, sharing rice and chocolate cake with her guards as protesters around the world demanded she be freed. European Union countries warned they would renew sanctions, concerts and vigils were held in over 20 cities worldwide, a petition with 670,000 signatures of people from 220 countries was delivered to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and dignitaries and celebrities posted online messages of support.
"Now is the time for the international community to speak with one voice: Free Aung San Suu Kyi," said part of the message on http://64forsuu.org
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Good article. Aung San Suu Kyi has suffered and sacrificed too long. In one of history's ironies, the thuggish Burmese generals are finishing up a favorite project of Suu Kyi's father: The extermination of Burma's ethnic Karen population.
Burma's SLORC are South East Asia's version of the ZANU-PF. Unless this corrupt creepy crew whom have nothing on Dubya, Cheney, & Co. leave the scene, Burma will become Asia's version of Zimbabwe, oil pipeline deals notwithstanding.
Why do those countries who proclaim themselves the Champions of democracy and justice and human rights spend so much more time on an Iran then they do a Burma?
Would such "principled dialogue and belief systems" have anything at all do do with the access to said countries natural resources?
Were a Burma sitting on 120 billion barrels of Oil reserves and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas which she closed access to, is it possible a Burma would be declared a supporter of terrorism?
Where all the press on BURMA?