Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Burmanet News
Streets in Rangoon and Mandalay were relatively quiet on Saturday, following three bloody days in which at least 10 protesters were gunned down, according to state-run media, and scores of monks and civilians were beaten and arrested by security forces.
However, members of Burma’s opposition (…)
, by HUGUES Thomas
Just last Sunday—when marches led by Buddhist monks drew thousands in Burma’s biggest cities—Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora was in the country’s capital for the signing of oil and gas exploration contracts between state-controlled ONGC Videsh Ltd and Burma’s military rulers.
The signing (…)
, by WINDISC Margarita
Melbourne,
Following a 500-strong vigil in Melbourne on September 27 protesting the Burmese military regime’s repression of pro-democracy protests, 600 people took to the city’s streets the next day in solidarity with Burma’s pro-democracy movement. They marched from Melbourne Town Hall to the (…)
, by Indonesian Solidarity with the Burmese People
INDONESIAN SOLIDARITY WITH BURMESE PEOPLE (SOLIDARITAS INDONESIA UNTUK RAKYAT BURMA )
re: The Peaceful Protest Action Supporting the Burmese Peoples Struggle Against the Myanmar Military Junta The peaceful protest actions led by the monks of Burma against the Myanmar military junta and (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers, Movements (Thailand)
Joint Statement of 33 human rights organizations, Trade Unions, Democratic Movement, Students and Youth Organizations, Peace Advocates and Buddhist Community in Thailand Condemning the Military Junta. Supporting Peace and Democratic Struggle of People in Burma
Current political situation (…)
, by PSM (Malaysia)
Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) strongly condemn the violent repressions of Myanmar Junta against anti-government protesters which resulted in a raising number of casualties. PSM is alarmed and concerned with news reports that Burmese soldiers have used baton and tear gas against the Buddhist (…)
, by FIDH
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Paris, September 27, 2007 - The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) expresses its deepest concern regarding the escalation of violence in the brutal crackdown on peaceful activists in Burma.
Last night, the security forces of the (…)
, by Partido Manggagawa
The Filipino working class joins the peoples around the world in condemning the brutal suppression by the military junta of the protest movement in Burma. We add the voice of the workers in the call for democratization in Burma, freedom for political prisoners and an end to the military rule. (…)
, by NG May
September 27, 2007 - In another sign of reemergence of authoritarianism, China and Russia once again rejected the call by members of the emergency United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the military junta in
Burma for violently attacking peaceful protesters, on Wednesday. (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Timor-Leste NGOs in Solidarity of Peaceful Demonstrations Led by Buddhist Monks in Burma Urging Government to Enter into Dialogue
We, representatives of Timor-Leste Human Rights NGOs express our deepest solidarity in the spirit of human rights with the peaceful and holy movement initiated (…)
, by ESCOBAR Pepe
Somewhere in imponderable nirvana, the Buddha may be exhibiting the faintest of smiles. Or is he? What a heavenly sight - the discreet, barefooted, crimson- and maroon-clad Buddhist monks of Myanmar, formerly Burma, able to affirm publicly their supreme moral authority and righteousness, (…)
, by FIDH
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
Paris, 25 September 2007 - *As the United Nations General Assembly opens discussions in New York, tens of thousands of demonstrators are marching through the streets of Rangoon and other major cities in Burma. FIDH salutes the courage of the men (…)
, by Khin Maung Win
The Burmese military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), is aware of the differences between the situation in Burma now and in 1988 when they killed thousands of peaceful demonstrators to grab power.
Images of the month-long peaceful demonstrations have appeared in (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
AKBAYAN Chair Emeritus Etta Rosales urged the Philippine government today to officially communicate to the Burmese junta and appeal against the use of force to stop the growing pro-democracy protest in the country. “Before the junta resorts to a violent crackdown, the Philippine government, (…)
, by Mizzima News
The Burmese military junta, habituated to years of repressive rule, is today in the eye of a storm. The Sanghas have taken on the Tatmadaw. In a dramatic form of peaceful protest, Buddhist monks with upturned begging bowls have literally flooded the streets of Burma turning them into a crimson (…)
, by BERTHELSEN John, LIN NEUMANN A.
With as many as 100,000 people on the street in a holiday atmosphere and film stars joining the crowds, there were increasing signs Tuesday that a nervous Burmese government is nearing a crisis point after six weeks of protests against the repressive regime. Texted one observer from Rangoon: (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
With unrest in Burma entering its fifth week, the country’s Buddhist monks are making the disturbances the most serious since the bloody 1988 crackdown on a democracy uprising that resulted in thousands of deaths and kept the population cowed for a generation.
At this point, according to (…)
, by RAMAN B.
The ruling military junta in Myanmar is showing signs of nervousness as the students and monks unrest not only persists, but is even showing signs of spreading across the country despite repressive measures by the army.
It was initially the students, who took to the streets against the junta (…)
, by PSM (Malaysia)
Kuala Lumpur, 28 September 2007
Burmese Red March in the Streets of Kuala Lumpur
This morning, more than three thousand Burmese protesters , most of them wearing red marched in the street of Kuala Lumpur. They walked from Ampang Park to the Burmese Embassy, 2 kilometers away. There they had (…)
MMR 001 / 0807 / OBS 090
Arbitrary detention / Sentences / Ill-treatment
Burma
August 9, 2007
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), (…)
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