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ONU/UN, Rusia/Russia, DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship, China, IndiaOctober 14, 2007 1:36 pm

Burma: tortured to death or till they are in serious condition - Birmania: torturados hasta la muerte o hasta que están graves

Members of the 88 Generation Students and other detainees who have been arrested by authorities are now being tortured in Insein interrogation center and other detention facilities.Some have been tortured to death and others have been hospitalized in serious condition, according to sources.
A source close to authorities in Insein prison told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that many prisoners are tortured and some are now hospitalized in serious condition, including Min Ko Naing, a prominent student leader. The source requested anonymity for his safety.
On August 21, Burmese authorities arrested at least 13 activists of the 88 Generation Students group, including Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, Htay Win Aung, Min Zeya, Mya Aye and Kyaw Min Yu, Zeya, Kyaw Kyaw Htwe, Arnt Bwe Kyaw, Panneik Tun, Zaw Zaw Min, Thet Zaw and Nyan Lin Tun, according to the state-run newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar.
The state-run newspaper accused them of “breaking the law guarding against acts undermining the efforts to successfully carry out peaceful transfer of State power and facilitate the proceedings of the National Convention.”

The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition

More actors are arrested:

The popular Burmese film actor Kyaw Thu and his wife Myint Myint Khin Pe were arrested on Tuesday night after the authorities discovered their Rangoon hiding place.

Win Naing, Zarganar and Kyaw Thu offered alms to the monks during last month demonstrations [Photo: The Irrawaddy]

The couple had been in hiding after eluding security forces who cracked down on celebrities who supported monks in their protest demonstrations last month. Earlier reports—not, however, carried by The Irrawaddy—had suggested that Kyaw Thu had managed to escape to Thailand.

[…]”We are Buddhist. All Buddhists have to support this movement,” Kyaw Thu said during the peaceful demonstrations.

Kyaw Thu is a respected human rights activist as well as a very popular actor. He is vice-president of the Free Funeral Services Society, a social welfare organization founded in Rangoon in 2001with the aim of helping people who cannot afford funerals for their family members. It now has chapters throughout the country.

How the monks were treated:

“Due to the lack of food and the extreme highs and lows of temperature, some monks and laypeople felt like they were suffocating. Others simply died.

“The conditions were terrible. We each had no more than a small patch of cell to sit on,” lamented Burmese monk U Sandar Vaya, looking pale and weak and somewhat older than his 33 years.

U Sandar Vaya was arrested along with hundreds of other Buddhist monks at midnight on September 26. The Burmese military authorities had started arresting demonstrators that day, detained them in five locations around Rangoon—the Government Technology Institute (GTI) in Insein, the police quarters in Kyaikkasan, and police detention centers in Hmawbi, Thanlyin and Aung Thapyay, according to those people who were later released. One police official estimates that there would have been at least 1,000 monks and laypeople per detention center.

U Sandar Waya said he was incarcerated with 500 other monks and 200 civilians in one room of the GTI. The authorities gave them each only one bowl of drinking water in the first two days, later increasing the ration to three bowls. The guards didn’t allow the detainees to wash and there was no toilet, only plastic bags for sanitation.

More about the conditions for the imprisoned detainees:

imprisoned 88 Generation members have described being kept in cramped conditions in small rooms, with some standing shoulder to shoulder, unable to lie down. Prisoners have also reported a lack of toilets, clean water and adequate food supplies.

And the cremation of corpses from the repression continues: at least 200 have been burned in secret.
If the BBC was accused several days ago of being destructive to Burma by the Junta, now they are accusing the Western countries of fomenting the protests.
And the UN?? Well, as ever working hard to achieve nothing… well, is it really working at all?? UN Security Council “deplores” the repression in Burma. Wow, how hard… just as hard as the photo of Gambari with the Military Junta. RWB (RSF) agrees that this resolution is not tough at all.
The detentions continue. More detentions even. In fact, some MSM are naming the Junta’s policy as “witch-hunting“. And an special Tribunal has been created for protestors in Thayet prison. Protesting dogs are also hunted for (hmm, yes, DOGS), if they are carrying pictures of Than Shwe and other regime leaders around their necks, because “Associating anybody with a dog is a very serious insult in Burma”. In this case, the insult is for the dog.
Even the operations don’t go well in prisons (who would expect the contrary):

A member of the 88 Generation Students’ Group, Hla Myo Naung, suffered nerve damage during an unsuccessful operation while in detention, according to his colleague Soe Tun.

Hla Myo Naung was arrested on Wednesday morning when he emerged from hiding to be treated in a Rangoon clinic. According to his doctor, he was suffering from a ruptured cornea and required surgery to save his sight.

Soe Tun, also a member of the 88 Generation Students’ Group, told The Irrawaddy, “A policeman informed his wife that Hla Myo Naung had some kind of injury to his nervous system, although we don’t know exactly what happened.”

And now they are forcing villagers to march in favour of the regime.

Hundreds of villagers living on the outskirts of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, marched in support of the country’s military junta Saturday after being threatened with steep fines if they did not, a political activist leader hiding in Yangon told CNN by phone.
Nilar Thein — a key leader in the Myanmar-based group ‘88 Generation — said residents of Shwe Pyi Thar village carried pro-regime placards after junta officials on Friday demanded at least one person from each household march in the government’s rally. Junta officials also approached local factories and demanded they provide 50 workers.

Reconciliation is far away, but it’s the only path to peace in the country. And to a peaceful transition. The opposition wants to speak with the Junta but the Junta has rejected any kind of negotiation.
By the way, italian Jeweller Bulgari joins international boycott to Burmese jewels. Something that honors the firm.
China has already joined UN censorship of the Burmese Junta. It’s more publicity than anything. They are beginning to worry about a massive boycott to 2008 Olypmic Games.
And India continues with its business in Burma:

IN THE MIDST of the social turmoil in Myanmar, which saw a repressive military killing and making arbitrary arrests, India pulled off a coup of sorts to finalise the agreement for the $ 103 million Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project, which had hit a major bottleneck.

Even as Myanmar bled, India went ahead unabashedly to finalise the agreement, which envisages developing the Sittwe port in Arakan state in the neighbouring country. By its own admission India has been driven by its own interest to acquire a transit route to southeast Asian countries through Myanmar.

India and North Korea continue to sell weapons to Burma. And China, Russia and Ukraine too.
But don’t give up too easily on the Burmese “Saffron revolution“. Simple reasonings are not useful and in most cases, are not just nor truthful nor accurate:

Such arguments recall the pessimism about the Soviet bloc. Even after the wave of east European revolutions had begun in 1989, I remember watching an academic explain on British television how Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania would survive because he had forged a nation and ruled it with a rod of iron. The next day he was dead.

As I have said, we don’t know what the future will bring, it can be worse, but it can also be better. Let’s hope we are in the right path -though that “right path” is not usually the easy nor comfortable nor simple path to take”.

No, no me he olvidado de Birmania. De hecho, quería primero linkar este post sobre la historia de Birmania de Cruzcampo, para que comprendamos un poco mejor lo que pasa ahora.La represión sigue siendo temible. Pero ahora ya no hay medios ni siquiera fotos sobre la misma.
Como ya escribí aquí mismo, varios opositores han muerto durante los interrogatorios y otros han tenido que ser hospitalizados por estar muy graves. Las torturas, como también he escrito aquí, son atroces. Y la acusación una vergüenza: han sido acusados de “quebrantar la ley que prohíbe los actos que vayan en contra de los esfuerzos para garantizar una pacífica transferencia del poder del Estado y facilitar los procedimientos de una convención estatl”.
El opositor Hla Myo Naung, del que ya hablé aquí que había ido a ser tratado de una ruptura de córnea, ha sido operado en la cárcel y tiene daños en los nervios, porque la operación “salió mal”.
Ni siquiera los actores se salvan. Si hace unos días conocíamos la detención de -entre otros actores- Zanganar, un actor cómico muy famoso en Birmania (se le apoda el Charlie Chaplin birmano) ante la desesperación de su mujer que denuncia que está mal de salud y que ni siquiera sabe a dónde se lo han llevado, ahora hemos conocido que Kyaw Thu y su mujer han sido apresados. Se habían escondido desde que se reunieron para repartir agua y comida a los monjes, acto en el que también estuvo Zanganar, a pesar de que sabían que esto significaba su arresto. Kyaw Thu es un reconocido actor pero también un famoso activista de derechos humanos y desempeña el puesto de vice-presidente de una fundación que paga los funerales a personas que no tienen recursos.
Los monjes que han sido detenidos y han sido después puestos en libertad, han comenzado a hablar. “Las condiciones eran terribles. No teníamos más que un pequeño trozo de celda para sentarnos”, se lamento el monje birmano U Sandar Vaya, con la cara pálida y aparentando ser más viejo de los 33 años que tiene. Pero otros han tenido peor suerte. Como consecuencia de la falta de comida y las subidas y bajadas de temperatura, algunos monjes y personas legas pensaron que se sofocarían. Otros simplemente murieron.
Más detalles sobre las condiciones en las que los tienen detenidos:

Miembros en prisión de la Generación del 88 han descrito estar en condiciones horribles en pequeñas habitaciones, donde tienen que estar hombro con hombro, sin poder tumbarse. Los prisioneros también han descrito una falta de wáteres, agua limpia y comidas adecuadas.

También continúa la cremación de los cadáveres: al menos 200 han sido quemados en secreto, por lo que serán muchos más.
Si la BBC fue acusada hace unos días de ser “destructiva para Birmania”, ahora la Junta acusa a los países occidentales de fomentar las protestas.
Y la ONU? Eehh, bueno, trabajando duro por ser muyyyyyy blanda: Consejo de Seguridad de ONU deplora represión en Myanmar. Tan, tan dura es como lo que se puede observar en la foto de la izquierda: Ghambari, enviado de la ONU, posa con la Junta militar, como ya escribí aquí. Reporteros sin Fronteras es de la misma opinión que yo sobre lo blannnnnnnnnnndo el comunicado con la Junta.
Las detenciones también continúan. Y aún más detenciones. De hecho se habla de una “caza de brujas“. Y se ha creado un tribunal especial para los que se manifestaron en la prisión de Thayet.
La policía persigue a los perros que lleven una foto de Than Swe y otros mandatarios de la Junta colgadas del cuello, porque asociar a alguien con un perro es un serio insulto en Birmania. En este caso, el insulto es para el perro por asociarle con estos asesinos. Por cierto, ¿para cuándo van a denunciar los defensores de los animales el maltrato de estos perros? Porque considerando lo que les hacen a los humanos, hay que pensar que tienen un futuro negro…
Y ahora están obligando a los residentes en Yangún a manifestarse en favor del régimen.
Ahora China se une a los que censuran a la Junta, pero eso -creo personalmente- que es más porque temen un boicot masivo a los Juegos Olímpicos del año que viene que porque realmente hayan cambiado de idea… Y, por supuesto, es más una cuestión de publicidad que un cambio en la idea o en la consideración de la Junta birmana.
India, sin embargo, cerró un negocio de 103 millones de dólares mientras se producía la represión. El proyecto, llamado de “transporte multi-modal de Kaladan”, permitirá a la India adquirir una ruta de tránsito a través de Birmania por los países del Sudeste asiático. El Gobierno indio confesó que perseguía su propio interés en el proyecto.
India y Corea del Norte, junto con China, Rusia y Ucrania, continúan vendiendo armas al régimen birmano. Para ellos es un cliente más.
La reconciliación se ve lejos, pero será el único camino para alcanzar la paz en el país. Y una transición pacífica. Así, aunque la oposición SÍ quiere entrar en negociaciones con el Gobierno, la Junta militar ya ha dicho que NONES.
Por cierto, Bulgari va a boicotear las piedras preciosas que vengan de Birmania. Un gesto que les honra.
Pero no dejemos que el pesimismo nos invada. Como decía el Financial Times, los razonamientos simples no sirven porque no responden a la verdad ni son ajustados a la realidad:

Estos argumentos me recuerdan el pesimismo con que se trataba al bloque soviético. Incluso después de la ola de revoluciones del Este de Europa que comenzó en 1989, me acuerdo de ver a un académico explicar en la TV británica cómo Ceaucescu de Rumanía sobreviviría porque había hecho al pais y lo gobernaba con mano de hierro. El día siguiente estaba muerto.

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Tags: Burma, Birmania, SaffronRevolution, Revolución Azafrán, China, India, Russia, Rusia, Ukraine, Ucrania, UN, ONU, Ghambari, Bulgari, Aung San Suu Kyi, 88 Generation, Bhuddism, Bhuddist monks, torture, tortura, repression, represión, dictatorship, dictadura, Junta Militar birmana, Burmese Military Junta

Islamismo/Islamism, DDHH/HR, sociedad/society, libertad/freedomOctober 11, 2007 12:53 pm

Victim of gang rape, hunted - La víctima de una violación en grupo, perseguida

From Gallia Watch:

“Just before the arrests the police told me that I had to leave my home.” The wanderings begin. First the organization Ni Putes Ni Soumises gave her a studio apartment in Hauts-de-Seine. “Then, they told me to go to a small village near Grenoble.” She stayed there until September 2006. “Then I returned to my father’s house in Fontenay, in the project of les Larris. We had to leave very early in the morning. For weeks I didn’t go out. Someone tried to break into our home at night.” She then went to her mother-in-law’s, near Paris, then to a young workers hostel until January, when she was recognized by a former resident of les Larris. Another move. Today she lives somewhere in the Parisian suburbs, in a state of anxiety and bitterness. “I can’t stay here. We had let our guard down, but since the attack on my mother, I’m living again in fear. I have no news from anybody. I wrote to Sarkozy. The prefect of Val-de-Marne told me to apply for housing at city hall. This story has received much media attention, and then, they forgot about us, dropped us completely. We were promised an apartment, police and court protection, and I was even told I could change my name.”

According to Le Figaro, the gang rapes took place betweeen the end of 1999 and 2005. The raped girls have been accused of “having psyquiatric problems”, of “being easy women”, or even of “not having an stable life”. One of the girls has already psyquiatric problems but because of the gang rape.

As a result of the accusations, between 40 and 50 boys were detained. But most of the people considered that they were innocent and that they did not have had never any problem with women. The mistakes the raped girls made when describing them caused the freeing of some of them.

But the “youths” are now beginning to threaten them without any kind of restraint:

Last week her mother filed a complaint at the Fontenay police station after being attacked in the lobby of her building with a sharp object. “Now I know where you sleep, you and your w… daughter. Before the trial we’re going to f… both of you. And that’s just a sample of what you can expect,” the unknown assailant said to her.

Related posts:

Darfur update. “Another tactic used throughout this war that erupted in 2003, when rebels began attacking Sudanese military targets in Darfur, is rape - rape as a weapon of war. In Bredging refugee camp, I was able to meet a group of 30 women for an hour - and within that hour, five women described their own rapes, always gang rape. Rape to destroy not only the women, but their families and communities. One of the women was 35, the mother of eight children. When her husband learned that she had been raped repeatedly by Janjaweed fighters, he divorced her on the spot and she has been alone since. Another of the women - age 17 - was rejected by her fiance after her rape“.
Campaign of rapes in the West Bank against Jewish women. In the West Bank there is a campaign of rapes against Jewish women, according to the police who has detained already 6 suspects. The rapes are a vengeance to the “deeds of the IDF in Palestinian territories“. The women -more teenagers- were raped at bus stops or in designated hitchhiking points.

Interpretation: “The Western goods, and the land on which we stand, belong to Allah and the best between the men - his believers. The Western women, too and essentially belong to us -they are our future loot”.

We are your loot? Go to hell, you bastards! …

Written by me:

Banaz Mahmoud was raped before honor killing.
Clichy-sur-Bois, two years later. 23% of young girls aged 18-21 had been object of physical violence (hits, menaces with weapons or violent robberies) sometime in their lives (not considering the last 12 months) and 14% of sexual agressions (subjected to undesired touchings, rape or intent of rape).
In the West Bank: campaign of rapes against Jewish women, according to the police who has detained already 6 suspects. The rapes are a vengeance to the “deeds of the IDF in Palestinian territories“. The women -more teenagers- were raped at bus stops or in designated hitchhiking points.

From other blogs:

Muslim gang rape an epidemic @ VH. Harassment of females has therefore exploded throughout the West, most shockingly demonstrated in the recent phenomenon of gang rape for sport.
But not only women suffer this: From My Flanders Fields: Muslims gang rape and beat a school boy and film it and attempt to blackmail him. A paediatrician at Derby Children’s Hospital who examined him described it as “the most serious case of multiple physical and sexual assault” she had ever seen. His attacker, Mohammed Naseem, now 21, of Byron Street, Derby, was put on the sex offenders’ register for life. Naseem pleaded guilty to two charges of rape and two of sexual assault by penetration.Dawn Pritchard, prosecuting, said the boy was first ordered to carry out a sex act on himself and was filmed as he did this. He was told he would have to pay £5,000 or his mother would be killed. He was forced to carry out sex acts on the others, who then abused him.
I am a woman hear me roar or the Disgusting Underbelly of the Beast @VH: “THE nation’s most senior Muslim cleric (Al Hilali) has blamed immodestly dressed women who don’t wear Islamic headdress for being preyed on by men and likened them to abandoned “meat” that attracts voracious animals”. Of course, Al Hilali, you wouldn’t attrack a voracious animal, even if you pose nude. Uaghhhhhh!

In Oriental Timor, the UN (link in Spanish, below) said that rape was used as a weapon by Indonesian army (Muslim) against the Timorese women (Oriental Timor is overwhelmingly Christian-Catholic): “The rapes, the sexual slaveness and the sexual violence were tools used as a part of the campaign which had as objective to terrorize, give sensation of lack of power and hope to the independence supporters”.

Y Sarkozy ejem… pues bueno, silbando el puente del Río Quai Whistling

“Justo después de los arrestos la policía me informó de que tenía que dejar mi casa”. Comenzó el vagabundeo. primero la organización “Ni putas ni sumisas” le dio un apartamento en Hauts-de-Seine. “Después, me dijeron que debía irme a una ciudad pequeña cerca de Grenoble”. Estuvo allí hasta Septiembre 2006. “Entonces, volví a la casa de mi padre en Fontenay, en el proyecto de los Larris. Tuvimos que irnos muy pronto por la mañana. Durante semanas no salí. Alguien intentó entrar en nuestra casa por la noche.” Después fue a la casa de su suegra, cera de París, después a un hostal de trabajadores jóvenes hasta enero, cuando fue reconocida por un residente antiguo de Les Harris. Otro cambio. Hoy vive en algún sitio de los suburbios de París, en un estado de ansiedad y amargura. “No puedo seguir aquí. Habíamos bajado la guardia, pero cuando mi madre fue atacada de nuevo, volví a sentir miedo. No tengo noticias de nadie. Escribí a Sarkozy. El prefecto de Val-de-Marne me dijo que pidiera una casa al ayuntamiento. Esta historia tuvo mucha repercusión en los medios pero después, se olvidaron de nosotros, nos abandonaron completamente. Nos prometieron un apartamento, policía y protección judicial y me dijeron que incluso podía cambiarme el nombre.”

Según Le Figaro, las violaciones en grupo tuvieron lugar entre el final de 1999 y 2005. Las chicas violadas han sido acusadas de “problemas psiquiátricos”, de “ser fáciles” o de “no tener una vida estable”. Una de las chicas es cierto que tiene problemas psicológicos pero como consecuencia de las violaciones.

Como resultado de las acusaciones entre 40 y 50 chicos fueron detenidos. Pero la mayoría de la gente consideró que eran inocentes y que no habían tenido nunca ningún problema con las mujeres. Los errores que las chicas cometieron al describir todo ello, dieron lugar a que a algunos los soltaran.

Pero, si antes se limitaron a espiar a las chicas, ahora, los “jóvenes” están pasando a las amenazas:

La pasada semana su madre denunció ante la comisaría de policía de Fontenay que había sido atacada en el portal de su edificio con un objeto afilado. “Ahora sé dónde dormís, tú y tu p*ta hija. Antes del juicio os vamos a j*der a ambas. Y eso es sólo un ejemplo de lo que podeis esperar,” le dijo el asaltante desconocido.

Posts relacionados de otros blogs: Cada vez más menores son violados por musulmanes en Europa.

Posts relacionados escritos por mí:

Banaz Mahmoud fue violada antes de ser asesinada por honor.
El Islam en Australia y el Reino Unido: entre los Jihadis y la obsesión por las “mujeres desvergonzadas“.
Noticias desde Australia.
El informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre Indonesia (musulmán) y Timor Oriental (católico). “miles de mujeres fueron violadas durante la ocupación, por lo que el informe llega a la conclusión de que la violación fue también un arma de guerra del Ejército indonesio. “La violación, la esclavitud sexual y la violencia sexual fueron herramientas usadas como parte de la campaña diseñada para aterrorizar, dar sensación de falta de poder y desesperanzar a los partidarios de la independencia”, afirma la comisión, según recoge el diario australiano”.
Más sobre las violaciones en grupo.
Australia y el multiculturalismo.
Las violaciones colectivas y el Islam: “Si se considera que muchos musulmanes se ven en Europa como un ejército conquistador y que las mujeres europeas sólo son botín de guerra, todo cobra su verdadero sentido de acuerdo con la Ley Musulmana: las mujeres occidentales no suscitan respeto para la mayorái de los musulmanes más que como “sus” mujeres, las mujeres que “pertencen” a los infieles hostiles. Son botín de guerra para ser cogido, como la tierra de los infieles que también algún día caerá, según creen, en manos musulmanas. No es en sí mismo un crimen el pensarlo hipotéticamente, sino que es simplemente, según los musulmanes un crimen justificado ideológicamente, lo mismo que los ataques a los musulmanes. Las mujeres occidentales son barates -fáciles- y ofensivas. Nosotros los musulmanes estamos aquí para quedarnos, y por tanto, tenemos derecho a aprovecharnos de la situación. Es nuestra visión la que debe prevalecer. Los bienes occidentales, como la tierra en la que vivimos, pertenecen a Allah y a los mejores de entre los hombres — sus Creyentes. Las mujeres occidentales, también y esencialmente, nos pertencen — nuestro futuro botín“. (¿Vuestro botín? Tú lo flipas, majete )
la impunidad de los “lebs” en Australia.

Como dice VH en su post, señalado más arriba: “El acoso a las mujeres ha explotado en Occidente, sobre todo el fenómeno demostrado recientemente de las violaciones en grupo por deporte“.

Me gustaría saber las estadísticas en España. ¿A que no hay lo que hay que tener para sacarlas a la luz?

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Tags: gangrape, violación en grupo, Islam, Islamismo, Islamism, sexual harrasment, acoso sexual, women, mujer, France, Francia, Australia, Reino Unido, United Kingdom, Indonesia,

ONU/UN, DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship 12:44 pm

Actualización birmana: detenidos por no disparar a los monjes - Burmese update: detained for not shooting monks

La Junta Militar birmana detuvo a cinco generales y a más de 400 soldados por negarse a disparar y golpear a los monjes budistas y a otros participantes en las protestas de las últimas semanas en Rangún, informo el miércoles el rotativo indonesio ‘The Jakarta Post’, tras entrevistar a un alto cargo birmano que pidió el anonimato.”Cinco generales expresaron su negativa a destacar sus tropas abiertamente contra los monjes y fueron rápidamente detenidos por la Junta”, dijo el oficial birmano que rechazó dar los nombres de los militares arrestados.Añadió que además fueron castigados “alrededor de 400 soldados de la División Sikai, cerca de la ciudad de Mandalay, que también bajaron sus armas frente a los monjes y les pidieron perdón al darse cuenta de que habían cometido el peor de los pecados”.La fuente opinó que se trata de una clara señal de la existencia de fisuras en el interior del régimen, puesto que, a su juicio, la mayoría de los funcionarios y cargos públicos no están contentos con la brutal represión llevada a cabo por la Junta Militar, aunque callan por temor.

Cinco generales y 400 soldados detenidos por no disparar contra monjes budistas | elmundo.es
Asimismo un dirigente opositor que participó en la rebelión de 1988 ha muerto como consecuencia de las torturas a que fue sometido durante el interrogatorio:

Un dirigente de la oposición en Myanmar, que fue arrestado durante las protestas masivas del mes pasado contra la Junta Militar, murió debido a las torturas que sufrió durante los interrogatorios, denunció hoy un grupo activista.
La Asociación de Asistencia para Prisioneros Políticos dijo que Win Shwe, de 42 años y miembro de la Liga Nacional para la Democracia, fue arrestado el 26 de septiembre con otras cuatro personas por su apoyo y participación en las mayores protestas en casi 20 años.
“Murió como consecuencia de las torturas durante los interrogatorios”, aseguró el grupo con sede en Tailandia y dijo que la fuente de su información son las autoridades del pueblo de Kyaukpandawn.
“Sin embargo, su cadáver no fue enviado a su familia y sus interrogadores dijeron que en cambio lo incineraron”, agregó.
Tras las noticias sobre la muerte de Win Shwe, Estados Unidos amenazó con nuevas sanciones contra Myanmar.
“La junta debe cesar el tratamiento brutal de su gente y hacer una transición pacífica a la democracia, o se enfrentará a nuevas sanciones de Estados Unidos”, declaró en un comunicado el portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Gordon Johndroe.
La Casa Blanca no especificó qué sanciones adicionales está estudiando contra la ex Birmania, pero pidió una investigación completa sobre la muerte del activista.

Esta muerte se priduce después de que el martes otro grupo de activistas en favor de los Derechos Humanos denunciara que dos estudiantes detenidos el 27 de septiembre habían muerto también mientras eran interrogados.
También se ha detenido a uno de los participantes en la revolución del 1988. Hla Myo Naung, de casi 40 años, tiene rota la córnea y su médico ha dicho que necesitaba una intervención inmediata. Fue detenido en una clínica oftalmológica. Con anterioridad a su detención había estado escondiéndose de la policía.
Ni siquiera los cómicos se libran. El más importante de los cómicos birmanos, Zarganar, apodado “el Charlie Chaplin” birmano, fue detenido y su mujer está preocupada. “No está muy bien de salud y no sé dónde lo tienen detenido”. “Le dije que no se metiera en las protestas, pero no me hizo caso”. “Ama a este país y a su gente”. Zarganar, ya fue arrestado como disidente político en 1988, y luego en 1990, cuando ayudaba a su madre cuando ésta se presentó como candidata en las elecciones generales de ese año. Fue liberado en 1994. La causa de su arresto fue que dio agua y comida a los monjes en los primeros días de protestas.
Al mismo tiempo, un hombre disparó contra el Consulado Chino en Mandalay, en lo que consideran los testigos que es una forma de protesta contra la postura china en relación a la Junta birmana. El personal del Consulado no hizo declaraciones. Pero quién sí las ha hecho ha sido Thakin Chan Htun, antiguo embajador birmano en China, diciendo que, si siguen así las cosas, pueden producirse otra vez disturbios entre los chinos -que han emigrado masivamente a Birmania- y los birmanos.
Por último, os animo a dejar vuestro mensaje para Birmania en esta dirección habilitada por la “Voz Democrática de Birmania”. Sólo quieren un poco de ánimo. No se lo vamos a negar, ¿verdad?

The Burmese military Junta detained five generals immediately after they expressed their negative to employ their troops openly against the monks. This is the statement made anonymously by a Burmese high rank official, according to Indonesian newspaper “The Jakarta Post”. He added that 400 soldiers who lowered their weapons when they saw the monks and asked for forgiveness “for committing the worst of sins”, were also punished. According to this official there is a growing unhappiness among the civil servants and public authorities, with the brutal crackdown lead by the Military Junta, although they are not speaking out of fear.
Anyway, the detentions continue:

A prominent leader of the 88 Generation Students group sought by the authorities since the start of protest demonstrations in August was arrested on Wednesday morning when he emerged from hiding to be treated in a Rangoon clinic, activist sources said.
Three other members of the group were arrested on Tuesday, the sources said.
Hla Myo Naung, in his late 30s, suffers from a ruptured cornea and his doctor says he will lose the sight in one eye unless the condition is surgically treated, according to Htay Kywe, a leader of the 88 Generation Students group, who spoke to The Irrawaddy from his own hiding place. He is also on the regime’s wanted list for his part in the demonstrations.
Htay Kywe said Hla Myo Naung was arrested at the eye clinic shortly after arriving there.

Not even comedians can escape from being detained:

For decades, Burmese comedians have charmed their audiences and irritated the ruling generals with their topical satire and political wit.
During the current unrest, Burmese authorities struck back by arresting two of the country’s most well-known comedians. Currently, no one knows where they are being held.
The comedians’ family members are in anguish over the fate of their loved ones.
“I am worried about him. He is not in good healthy,” said Kyi Oo, the mother of Zarganar, who has been called Burma’s Charlie Chaplin.
“I warned him not to get too involved in the protests, but he refused me,” she told The Irrawaddy by phone from Rangoon. “He loves his country and his people.”
Zarganar, 45, a dentist-turned-comedian, came to prominence in the 1980s by poking fun at the then socialist regime.
He was arrested after he prominently appeared in public, offering food and drink to monks during the early days of the Rangoon protests.
Zarganar was jailed twice for his social and political activism, first as a political dissident in 1988, then again in 1990 while helping his mother in her campaign for the general elections that year. He was freed in 1994.

And the deaths during the “interrogation tactics” too:

A member of Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy has died in a police interrogation center, a Burmese rights group reported on Wednesday.
The report follows news from another rights group on Tuesday that two university students arrested on September 27 had also died while being interrogated.
The NLD member, 42-year-old Win Shwe, who belonged to the party’s Kyaukpadaung Township branch in Mandalay Division was arrested on September 26, together with four other activists who took part with him in supporting demonstrations by protesting monks. The fate of the other four is not known.
The Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) said Win Shwe’s family had been informed that he had died three days ago but had been given no further information. His body was not returned to the family, and the AAPP said it had been buried secretly.

The police in charge of the interrogation techniques said that the body was cremated.

At the same time, the Chinese Consulate in Mandalay was attacked on Sunday:

the Chinese consulate in Mandalay was the scene of a hit and run gunshot attack by an unknown motorcyclist on Sunday, according to sources.
A local resident said that gunfire was heard early on Sunday morning. Several shots hit the embassy, but nobody was wounded, the resident added.
Security around the consulate has been beefed up since the attack and the authorities are currently investigating the incident, according to sources in Mandalay.
Critics and local residents alike view the isolated attack as a sign of growing discontent among the Burmese people in Mandalay against the Chinese government. However, it is not clear what the motive behind the attack was.
When asked about the attack, Chinese consulate staff refused to comment.
A veteran politician and former Burmese ambassador to China, Thakin Chan Htun told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that the growing opposition to China is based on its support for the Burmese military regime. If Burmese people can’t control their annoyance against the Chinese people,” he said, “it could lead to riots between Chinese and Burmese people, just like the riots in the past.”

From NYT blog:

World leaders, including First Lady Laura Bush, are launching invectives at a regime that lost all its credibility long ago. Access to the Internet, the source of great hope for fueling a popular uprising, returned momentarily. And one of the key opposition sites, the Democratic Voice of Burma, seemed to give up on urging world leaders to do something to help. At the top of the front page of its Web site, the group merely asks for encouragement: “Express yourself to the people of Burma!.”

Are you going to deny them a little encouragement?

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Tags: Birmania, Burma, repression, represión, Saffron Revolution, Revolución Azafrán, China, Burmese Military Junta, Junta Militar Birmana, libertad de expresión, torturas, torture, National League for Democracy, Liga Nacional por la Democracia, Aung San Suu Kyi,

DDHH/HR, dictadura/dictatorship, comunismo/communism, Humor/Humour, Historia/HistoryOctober 9, 2007 12:39 pm

Che’s anniversary - El aniversario del Ché

The People’s Cube:

Rolling on the floor Speaking about the Communist-Islamist alliance…

More in Fausta.

Más en En Defensa de Occidente y en MSV (este lo pongo porque así no me llevan otra vez a un cursillo de re-educación ).

Uncategorized, ONU/UN, DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship, comunismo/communism 12:34 pm

Burma: the crackdown continues - Birmania: la represión continúa (+)

(en español al final)

From webindia:

In talks on Oct 2 with UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, Myanmar’s junta head Senior General Than Shwe agreed to personally meet with Suu Kyi on the preconditions that she drop calls for “confrontation” with the regime and end her support for Western sanctions, imposed on the country since 1988 in the aftermath of the military’s brutal crackdown on its own people that left an estimated 3,000 people dead.

Observers fear the preconditions are a manoeuvre to place blame on Suu Kyi if the dialogue fails to take place.

More about the detention centers built after or during the “saffron revolution” h/t to Enzo, Kate and John:

According to Western diplomats and at least one Burmese government official, the Yangon’s technical institute has become a temporary concentration camp for 1,700 of the victims of last week’s brutal suppression of the democracy uprising. It provides a partial answer to one of the lingering questions about the Burmese junta?s crackdown: where are the monks, democracy activists and journalists who have been rounded up and spirited away over the past six weeks?
The only thing of which one can be sure is that somewhere in the country large numbers of people are being held in an invisible prison camp, without charge, without legal recourse and without the ability to communicate.

Image: hurt arm by a police batton. From Ho htike.

Or their bodies are cremated to ensure that the actual death toll is never known:

The Burmese army has burnt an undetermined number of bodies at a crematorium sealed off by armed guards northeast of Rangoon over the past seven days, ensuring that the exact death toll in the recent pro-democracy protests will never be known.

The secret cremations have been reported by local people who have seen olive green trucks covered with tarpaulins rumbling through the area at night and watched smoke rising continuously from the furnace chimneys.

They say they have watched soldiers in steel helmets blocking off roads to the municipal crematorium and threatening people who poke their heads out of windows overlooking the roads after the 10pm curfew.

Their accounts have been volunteered to international officials and aid workers in Rangoon, Burma’s main city. The consensus in the foreign community is that the consistency of the stories makes them credible.

The Government has begun making false accusations on the monks:

The article defended security officers who had rounded up all the monks during the monastery raids, claiming that they were unable to distinguish between the real monks and imposters and so had to arrest everyone.

Among the items that had reportedly been found during the raids were alcohol, pornographic and sexual materials, women’s clothing, anti-government literature and a variety of weapons. [Oh, yeah, and plans to build a nuclear weapon… This people thing we are all idiot. Even if that was the case, it does not justify such a crackdown…].

U Gambira, a spokesperson for the People?s Movement Leader Committee, dismissed the claims.

“People of Burma and the whole world know whether these accusations being made about monks by the junta are really true or not. Monks are peaceful people and we don’t need to give any answer to the government’s claims as everyone knows the truth. But still, I would like to say this is a very bad thing the [Burmese government] has done,” he said.

And has continued with the massive detentions:

Even as the Burmese military junta continues its crack down, the number of Burma?s opposition political party members who are being arrested has risen to over 400, an activist group said today.

The Thailand based Assistant Association for political Prisoners - Burma (AAPP-B) said despite the regime’s announcement that it had released several protesters, rampant midnight raids on the residence of activists and opposition party members (the National League for Democracy) continues.

K Bo Kyi, Secretary of the AAPP-B said the junta has categorized those arrested into three groups: activists, those joining in the protests and bystanders or onlookers applauding the protesters.

“Those released are mainly bystanders or onlookers who had cheered the demonstrators,” Bo Kyi said.

But people are speaking about what really happened:

The violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in Tamwe Township and Sule Pagoda in Rangoon on September 27 was the most brutal of all, according to witnesses.

The crackdown took place near State High School No 3 a witness recalled to The Irrawaddy. “They [the security forces] rammed into the middle of the crowd in a truck. Two women were killed immediately. At least 30 people died in the incident.”

The witness added that the two women were mothers of students and they had just come to pick up their children from school.

“It was disgusting,” said the witness, adding that security forces used rubber bullets when they opened fire into the crowds, as well as teargas and batons.

Another witness said that the truck was full of troops and they opened fire at the protesters. One student who held the flag at the front of the rally was the first to be shot, he said.

A resident who was involved in the protest on September 27 said that soldiers blockaded the demonstrators from both ends of the street and then opened fire into the crowd. Protesters ran in different directions. Some climbed on the buildings and some jumped into doorways.

Worried Right: injured monk in one of the protests.

And the people are flying Burma and arriving in the neighbour countries, speaking about more brutality by the Burmese military:

A group of four women, one carrying her baby daughter, stopped by in front of a restaurant near the ?Friendship Bridge? that links Myawadi in Myanmar and Mae Sot in Thailand on Saturday morning.

Myawadi is located around 400 kilometers east of Yangon while Mae Sot is Thailand?s westernmost city, some 400 kilometers northwest of Bangkok

Looking exhausted and frightened, one of the women said that they had come from Shan State, hundreds of kilometers north of Myawadi, and wanted to cross the bridge to go to Thailand

“Our village was burned down by soldiers, and the men were killed or taken away by them. We can’t go back,” the woman, who said her name was Naw Ester, said through an interpreter

“But we heard that there is a place across the bridge that can give us free medication and shelter. My sister was wounded in her leg from a soldier’s bullets during the attack,” she said, pointing at another young woman who was wearing a bandage on her leg.

Ho-htike has posted several videos on the repression and several drawings about the boycott of Beijing Olympics to save Burma. Something which should be done only considering Chinese situation:

It’s a fantasy to expect the regime that produced the Tiananmen Massacre to stop its Burmese friends from killing protesters.

Countries should boycott the Beijing Olympics. They should do so not because of what has been unfolding in Rangoon or in Darfur, but for what has been happening in China itself. The Chinese Communist Party should never have been awarded the Olympics in the first place.

And the worst of all, which proves that the UN is totally unable to handle this type of crisis h/t Theo Spark:

Burma’s ruling junta is attempting to seize United Nations computers containing information on opposition activists in the latest stage of its brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, The Times has learnt.

UN staff were thrown into panic over the weekend after Burmese police and diplomats entered its offices in Rangoon and demanded hard drives from its computers.

The discs contain information that could help the dictatorship to identify key members of the opposition movement, many of whom have gone underground. UN staff spent much of the weekend deleting information.

The stream of dramatic images of tens of thousands of monks parading through Rangoon inspired condemnation of the Government across the world. On Saturday, demonstrations denouncing the regime were held as far apart as Sydney, Singapore, London and Washington.

Others writing: Roger L. Simon.

(+) There is an attempt to send Gral Than Swe to International Criminal Court.

Como ya he mencionado en posts anteriores, el General Than Swe, el carnicero birmano -mi apodo, al que no le guste, Phbbbttt

- dijo que quería reunirse con Aung San Suu Kyi, pero la única Premio Nobel que está en arresto domiciliario (se ha pasado en esta situación 11 de los últimos 18 años) ya le ha contestado que no. La oposición teme que es una maniobra para echarle la culpa a ella de que no haya diálogo.Mientras se van conociendo más datos de cómo se ha producido la represión. En Yangún hay 1.700 personas detenidas en el Centro Politénico, por lo que podemos hacernos una idea de dónde han ido al menos algunos de los 6.000 detenidos que, se considera, lo han sido durante la represión. Lo peor es que están siendo retenidos -además de torturados, con una probabilidad del 99,9 periódico %- sin cargos, sin recursos legales y sin poder comunicarse con el exterior.También se sabe que la policía ha quemado un número indeterminado de cadáveres en el crematorio de Rangún, que está cerrado a cal y canto. Los testigos dicen haber visto cómo llegaban camiones militares cubiertos que se dirigían al crematorio cuyas chimeneas funcionaban continuamente. Otra causa más de por qué no hay cadáveres y por qué nunca habrá una cifra oficial de muertos en esta represión [Especialmente dedicado, Patroclo].Pero la bajeza del régimen va a más. El régimen ha hecho redadas por los monasterios budistas y ha acusado a los monjes de tener alcohol, material pornográfico y sexual, ropa de mujer, literatura anti-gubernamental y variedad de armas. Y yo soy Muhammad Ali, no te digo. Imaginemos que esto fuera verdad: ¿el que unos monjes tuvieran alcohol y literatura pornográfica y anti-gubernamental justifica lo que hemos estado viendo? Para mí, que no.

Claro, que como dice U Gambira, el portavoz del Movimiento del Pueblo, “el mundo ya ha visto lo que ha pasado aquí”. O sea que las acusaciones son más falsas que un duro de cuatro pesetas.

Y siguen las detenciones: ayer 400, a pesar de que, según el gobierno del carnicero birmano, habían soltado a muchos. Incluso eso tiene truco: han soltado a los que sólo pasaban por allí, se quedaban mirando o aplaudían.

Según los testigos el día más brutal fue el pasado 27 de septiembre, cuando los soldados cercaron a los manifestantes al lado de la pagoda de Rangún y abrieron fuego sobre la multitud. Los primeros asesinados fueron dos mujeres y un estudiante que enarbolaba una bandera al principio de la manifestación. Cuando la gente vio que disparaban, intentó escapar como pudo, subiéndose por las fachadas o metióndose en los portales.

Los refugiados están empezando a llegar a los países de alrededor. A Tailandia están llegando la mayoría. Muchos cuentan la dura represión que está teniendo lugar en sitios apartados. Dos mujeres -una de ellas con un pie vendado- y con una niña en brazos, declararon que venían del Estado Shan y que su ciudad había sido completamente quemada por los soldados. Los hombres habían sido asesinados o hechos prisioneros. Añadieron: “por eso no podemos volver atrás. Pero hemos oído que pueden darnos medicinas y cobigo gratis. Mi hermana ha sido herida en un pie de un disparo de un soldado durante el ataque“.

Así, los blogueros birmanos siguen pidiendo con insistencia el boicot a los Juegos Olímpicos chinos, sin darse cuenta de que lso chinos están sufriendo en silencio lo que hemos visto estos días en Birmania. También en China hay represión de las pequeñas revueltas campesinas que se producen cada vez más a menudo.

Por último, la Junta birmana está intentando tener acceso a los ordenadores de la ONU, que contienen información sobre los activistas que han tomado parte en las manifestaciones. Los trabajadores de la ONU vivieron momentos de pánico cuando policías y militares birmanos entraron en sus dependencias y exigieron que se les entregaran los discos duros de los ordenadores. Los discos pueden ayudar a identificar a opositores que ahora están viviendo a escondidas. Los trabajadores de la ONU han borrado los discos duros para impedir que la información caiga en manos del Gobierno.

No tengo palabras.

Post relacionados: el Movimiento Stalin Vive, con su peculiar sentido del humor, nos trae las “noticias sobre Myanmar”, incluyendo un un poster de homenaje al Generalísimo Than Shwe (¿por qué todos estos tiranos serán tan refeos -como dirían en Sudamérica-? Rolling on the floor ).

(+) Actualizo el post para señalar que hay una proposición para llevar al General Than Shwe (el carnicero birmano) al Tribunal Penal Internacional. Yo la apoyo.

Etiquetas de Technorati: Birmania, Burma, abusos a los Derechos Humanos, Human Rights’ abuses, UN, ONU, China

ONU/UN, DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship, comunismo/communismOctober 7, 2007 12:06 pm

Burma: More protests and more repression - Birmania: más protestas y más represión

A day of global protests against Myanmar’s junta began in cities across Asia Saturday, after the military regime admitted detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks when troops turned their guns on pro-democracy demonstrators last week.
Hoping to send a message to the generals that the world is still watching the situation, rights group Amnesty International organized marches in more than two dozen Asian, European and North American cities.Hundreds marched in the Australian city of Melbourne behind a banner demanding “No More Bloodshed.” A smaller crowd of about 50 turned out in Bangkok, Thailand.
In Malaysia’s biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, 300 people attended a candlelight vigil Friday evening outside the city’s tallest buildings, the Petronas Twin Towers.More rallies were planned in New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, England, France, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland, the U.S. and Canada.
The junta’s treatment of the Buddhist monks — who are revered in this deeply religious nation and led the street protests — is a key issue that could further inflame the people of Myanmar and anger soldiers loyal to the military rulers.
The government insisted most of the monks it detained had already been freed, with only 109 still in custody, according to an official statement broadcast Friday night on state TV. The report noted the junta was still hunting for four more monks it believed were ringleaders of the rallies.
Demonstrations that began in mid-August over a fuel price increase swelled into Myanmar’s largest anti-government protests in 19 years, inspired largely by the thousands of monks who poured into the streets.Television images last week showed soldiers shooting into crowds of unarmed protesters — but the government described the troops’ reaction as “systematically controlling” the protesters.

Protests pile pressure on Myanmar - CNN.com

As my Spanish friend Aquiles, I’m also appaled by the statements UN is supporting not to impose sanctions or other measures on Burmese Junta:

Both China and Burma oppose sanctions, arguing that the situation in Burma is an internal cuestion and that it is not a menace for peace and international security.

That was precisely the defense of the Burmese ambassador in UN, Kyaw Tint Swe.

From BBC:

Diplomats have circulated a draft statement at the UN denouncing the “violent repression” of pro-democracy protests.

I want the EU to impose further sanctions on the regime to make it absolutely clear we will not tolerate the abuses that have taken place

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown

The US, France and the UK called for immediate dialogue with opposition leaders, while the US suggested it would push for sanctions on Burma.

But China and Russia remain opposed to sanctions, saying the situation in Burma is an internal affair that does not threaten international peace and security.

On Saturday, Mr Brown said that he would push for European Union sanctions as he met Burmese exiles and campaigners at Downing Street as part of the global day of protests: “I want the EU to impose further sanctions on the regime to make it absolutely clear we will not tolerate the abuses that have taken place,” he told the delegation.

Solidarity

Demonstrations were scheduled to take place at noon local time in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US.

Capuchin and Carmelite monks join protests in Dublin, Ireland

There were no reported demonstrations in Burma’s largest city Rangoon, though, according to a Buddhist monk interviewed on the Burmese service of Radio Free Asia, people were praying in their homes.

Red headbands will be tied onto government buildings, religious shrines or key landmarks.

Myo Thein, of the Burma Campaign UK which is organising the London event, said the marches “are designed to show the people of Burma that we stand with them and the generals that we are watching their every move”.

By the way, the UN worker has been released - I’m sure this is not the result of the UN’s strength.

Ho-htike asks why we don’t boycott the Olympics… Yes, we should. Applause

RWB:

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned the continuing detention of a total of six journalists who have been arrested since the start of the pro-democracy demonstrations. They also condemned the crackdown that has followed the protests and said they feared that more journalists could be arrested.

“Now that United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has failed to get the repression stopped, it is important that the international community should continue to call for the release of the hundreds or possibly thousands of people, including six journalists, who have arrested since mid-August,” the two organisations said.

“We are appalled by the methods used by the police, who are arresting many people, especially young demonstrators, on the basis of photos taken by plain-clothes police who were in the demonstrations,” Reporters Without Borders and the BMA added.

Kate was at yesterday’s demonstration in Washington DC.

I didn’t know there was a protest in Madrid. Frustrated Next week I will read the page for protests in Spain… Blushing

There has been more protests held in Burma today:

Myanmar’s military has arrested 78 more people in its continuing crackdown on anti-government protests.

The latest arrests on Sunday bring to at least 1,000 the number of people currently being detained by the government, according to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

But dissident groups and foreign governments claim more than 6,000 people, including 135 Buddhist monks, are being held after last month’s protests against 45 years of military rule, the highest number in nearly two decades.

The New Light of Myanmar quoted investigators as saying the authorities have also detained 533 monks for questioning “to differentiate between real monks and bogus monks.”

Raised Eyebrow Waiting I agree completely: if the UN does not do more, it should be dissolved…

Military’s Myanmar is the Nation’s Driving Force @ NYT (what an asshole this NYT to name the country as Myanmar… this is the name the Military Junta stated to make the people forget about their country…). Their motto:

?Crushing all enemies, on land, underground and at sea, all enemies, we will crush them totally, until they are uprooted, decimated.?

El mundo.es publishes today that:

[…] according to witnesses, they believe that a lot of corpses have been incinerated in Rangoon’s funeral parlous after been conveyed there by military trucks from the Insein’s maximum security prision, in the outskirts of the city.

Disolución de la ONU ?ya!

No quepo en mí en una mezcla de asombro e indignación: “A pesar de los trágicos eventos recientes, la situación en Birmania no es, repito: no es, una amenaza para la paz y la seguridad ni regional ni internacional. No se justifica una acción del Consejo de Seguridad”. Este es el argumento con el que tanto China como Rusia pretenden impedir que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU imponga nuevas sanciones al régimen sanguinario de la junta militar socialista birmana, sanciones que impulsa EEUU.

Hoy ha habido aún más manifestaciones en Birmania y más detenciones: 78, para ser exactos. El periódico “La Nueva Luz de Myanmar” ha señalado que las autoridades han detenido, además, a 533 monjes para distinguir “entre los verdaderos y los falsos”. Se considera que hay encarceladas más de 6000 personas, de los que 155 son monjes budistas (no me salen las cuentas Confused ), el más importante número desde que hace 45 años comenzó la dictadura militar (o sea, que vamos a peor… At wits end ).

Del anterior link del mundo.es:

Entretanto, camiones del Ejército seguían el domingo aparcados en torno a las pagodas de Shwedagon y de Sule, aunque la presencia de soldados era menor en las calles de Rangún, y habían sido levantadas las barricadas de espinos, según dijeron testigos a radio Mizzima.

La disidencia birmana estima que la cifra de víctimas mortales se aproxima a los dos centenares, y según relatos de testigos, creen que muchos cadáveres han sido incinerados en el tanatorio municipal de Rangún después de sacarlos en camiones militares de la prisión de máxima seguridad de Insein, situada a las afueras de la ciudad.

O sea, después de haber sido asesinados mientras estaban torturándolos. Y la ONU, tocándose toooooooodo lo tocable…. Uaghhhhhhhh!!

Más de LD:

La cifra oficial de detenidos y el trato que reciben no han sido asuntos examinados por el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja, organismo al que la Junta Militar prohíbe el acceso a las prisiones y centros de detención montados en recintos militares y edificios gubernamentales.

Kate ( Wave ???qué pasa, peladaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!) fue a la manifestación en Washigton contra la dictadura birmana. A ver si me acuerdo yo de mirar si hay protestas aquí y voy la semana que viene, que esta no lo miré y no fui. Doh

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Etiquetas de Technorati: Birmania, Burma, represión, repression, dictatorship, dictadura, UN, ONU, Derechos Humanos, abusos a los Derechos Humanos, Human Rights, Human Rights’ abuses, Ghambari, Military Junta, Junta Militar birmana

ONU/UN, DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship, comunismo/communism 12:06 pm

Burma: More protests and more repression - Birmania: más protestas y más represión

A day of global protests against Myanmar’s junta began in cities across Asia Saturday, after the military regime admitted detaining hundreds of Buddhist monks when troops turned their guns on pro-democracy demonstrators last week.
Hoping to send a message to the generals that the world is still watching the situation, rights group Amnesty International organized marches in more than two dozen Asian, European and North American cities.Hundreds marched in the Australian city of Melbourne behind a banner demanding “No More Bloodshed.” A smaller crowd of about 50 turned out in Bangkok, Thailand.
In Malaysia’s biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, 300 people attended a candlelight vigil Friday evening outside the city’s tallest buildings, the Petronas Twin Towers.More rallies were planned in New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, England, France, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland, the U.S. and Canada.
The junta’s treatment of the Buddhist monks — who are revered in this deeply religious nation and led the street protests — is a key issue that could further inflame the people of Myanmar and anger soldiers loyal to the military rulers.
The government insisted most of the monks it detained had already been freed, with only 109 still in custody, according to an official statement broadcast Friday night on state TV. The report noted the junta was still hunting for four more monks it believed were ringleaders of the rallies.
Demonstrations that began in mid-August over a fuel price increase swelled into Myanmar’s largest anti-government protests in 19 years, inspired largely by the thousands of monks who poured into the streets.Television images last week showed soldiers shooting into crowds of unarmed protesters — but the government described the troops’ reaction as “systematically controlling” the protesters.

Protests pile pressure on Myanmar - CNN.com

As my Spanish friend Aquiles, I’m also appaled by the statements UN is supporting not to impose sanctions or other measures on Burmese Junta:

Both China and Burma oppose sanctions, arguing that the situation in Burma is an internal cuestion and that it is not a menace for peace and international security.

That was precisely the defense of the Burmese ambassador in UN, Kyaw Tint Swe.

From BBC:

Diplomats have circulated a draft statement at the UN denouncing the “violent repression” of pro-democracy protests.

I want the EU to impose further sanctions on the regime to make it absolutely clear we will not tolerate the abuses that have taken place

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown

The US, France and the UK called for immediate dialogue with opposition leaders, while the US suggested it would push for sanctions on Burma.

But China and Russia remain opposed to sanctions, saying the situation in Burma is an internal affair that does not threaten international peace and security.

Solidarity

Demonstrations were scheduled to take place at noon local time in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US.

Capuchin and Carmelite monks join protests in Dublin, Ireland

Red headbands will be tied onto government buildings, religious shrines or key landmarks.

By the way, the UN worker has been released - I’m sure this is not the result of the UN’s strength.

Ho-htike asks why we don’t boycott the Olympics… Yes, we should. Applause

RWB:

Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned the continuing detention of a total of six journalists who have been arrested since the start of the pro-democracy demonstrations. They also condemned the crackdown that has followed the protests and said they feared that more journalists could be arrested.

“Now that United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has failed to get the repression stopped, it is important that the international community should continue to call for the release of the hundreds or possibly thousands of people, including six journalists, who have arrested since mid-August,” the two organisations said.

“We are appalled by the methods used by the police, who are arresting many people, especially young demonstrators, on the basis of photos taken by plain-clothes police who were in the demonstrations,” Reporters Without Borders and the BMA added.

Kate was at yesterday’s demonstration in Washington DC.

I didn’t know there was a protest in Madrid. Frustrated Next week I will read the page for protests in Spain… Blushing

There has been more protests held in Burma today:

Myanmar’s military has arrested 78 more people in its continuing crackdown on anti-government protests.

The latest arrests on Sunday bring to at least 1,000 the number of people currently being detained by the government, according to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper.

But dissident groups and foreign governments claim more than 6,000 people, including 135 Buddhist monks, are being held after last month’s protests against 45 years of military rule, the highest number in nearly two decades.

The New Light of Myanmar quoted investigators as saying the authorities have also detained 533 monks for questioning “to differentiate between real monks and bogus monks.”

Raised Eyebrow Waiting I agree completely: if the UN does not do more, it should be dissolved…

?Crushing all enemies, on land, underground and at sea, all enemies, we will crush them totally, until they are uprooted, decimated.?

El mundo.es publishes today that:

[…] according to witnesses, they believe that a lot of corpses have been incinerated in Rangoon’s funeral parlous after been conveyed there by military trucks from the Insein’s maximum security prision, in the outskirts of the city.

Disolución de la ONU ?ya!

No quepo en mí en una mezcla de asombro e indignación: “A pesar de los trágicos eventos recientes, la situación en Birmania no es, repito: no es, una amenaza para la paz y la seguridad ni regional ni internacional. No se justifica una acción del Consejo de Seguridad”. Este es el argumento con el que tanto China como Rusia pretenden impedir que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU imponga nuevas sanciones al régimen sanguinario de la junta militar socialista birmana, sanciones que impulsa EEUU.

Del anterior link del mundo.es:

Entretanto, camiones del Ejército seguían el domingo aparcados en torno a las pagodas de Shwedagon y de Sule, aunque la presencia de soldados era menor en las calles de Rangún, y habían sido levantadas las barricadas de espinos, según dijeron testigos a radio Mizzima.

La disidencia birmana estima que la cifra de víctimas mortales se aproxima a los dos centenares, y según relatos de testigos, creen que muchos cadáveres han sido incinerados en el tanatorio municipal de Rangún después de sacarlos en camiones militares de la prisión de máxima seguridad de Insein, situada a las afueras de la ciudad.

O sea, después de haber sido asesinados mientras estaban torturándolos. Y la ONU, tocándose toooooooodo lo tocable…. Uaghhhhhhhh!!

Más de LD:

La cifra oficial de detenidos y el trato que reciben no han sido asuntos examinados por el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja, organismo al que la Junta Militar prohíbe el acceso a las prisiones y centros de detención montados en recintos militares y edificios gubernamentales.

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DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship, libertad/freedom, libertad de expresión/freedom of expressionOctober 5, 2007 11:39 am

Burma: The repression continues - Birmania: La represión continúa

Myanmar junta summons US envoy for talks
International Herald Tribune - 42 minutes ago
AP YANGON, Myanmar: The top US diplomat in Myanmar was summoned for rare talks Friday with the hard-line government a day after the junta leader announced a conditional offer to meet with the detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

Villarosa has been a vocal critic of the junta’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. She received word Thursday that she had been asked to meet with the military-led government, the State Department said in Washington. During her visit, she was expected to repeat the U.S. view that the regime must meet with democratic opposition groups and “stop the iron crackdown” on peaceful demonstrators, a State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, told reporters in Washington.

US envoy to meet Burma’s leaders Guardian Unlimited
General ‘willing to meet Suu Kyi’ Aljazeera.net
Carlsbad Current Argus - The Associated Press - Melbourne Herald Sun - AFP
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US has already asked for sanctions, includind the weapon embargo.

As I wrote yesterday, the Junta has offered Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi, “The Lady”, an offer of meeting, on condition that she renounces to her “obstructive practices” and abandon her support to sanctions imposed by the international community against Burma. Of course, the opposition has already said that the offer is “unreal“:

Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party dismissed a Myanmar junta offer of talks as unreal on Friday, while China said the ruthless suppression of pro-democracy protests did not require international action.
“They are asking her to confess to offences that she has not committed,” said Nyan Win, spokesman for the Nobel peace laureate’s National League for Democracy (NLD), whose landslide election victory in 1990 was ignored by the generals.

Oh, but Ban Ki-Moon (in his own moon, yeah) says that a dialogue is necessary between the two parts. Hmm, yeah, the peaceful opposition against the murderers of the Junta.
The Junta is searching for the leaders of the protests, who are, acording to them, four monks. It’s difficult to find them because a lot of them have fled and some others have been sent home as I wrote yesterday. The Junta has also assured that there are 109 monks detained, but has not mentioned if they have been charged with anything at all…

In his report Gambari has said that the HR abuses have not ceased and has underlined that the “international community is worried about the HR abuses, specially by night”. He has also pointed out that the number of killed has been much more elevated than the doxen deaths that the Government has announced.

Spanish Government has released an official statement about the Burmese crisis:

Spanish Government states its deep worries about the situation in Burma, that is following closely, and wants to add itself to the petitions made by the Burmese authorities to show the “greatest contention”, because the violent crackdown of the protests of these last days, could hace very grave consequences”

Well, it is better that the “it’s too early to draw conclusions”, after the crackdown begun. But it’s much too soft: “deep worried” and “petition to show the greatest contention”, when we are seeing what’s happening is at least very soft.
Anyway, knowing the pacifism of Spanish Zapatero’s Government, what are the “very grave consequences”?…

A Burmese general has deserted because the Junta wanted him to kill Bhuddist monks. Afterposten has reported that the general and his son want to get to Norway where he will tell all the abuses the Junta has done. He has already been condemned to the death penalty, so if you know and want to pray, this is a good reason to do it.

Ho-htike posts about the differences between normal people and the Junta leaders. Videos included. Very interesting considering they are “socialists”…

In other related news, the French oil giant Total is not going to step out of Burma but it either does not plan doing any other investments in the region. Sarkozy called last week to freeze all the accounts of the oil company till it ceases to operate in Burma.

Who’s left to challenge the Junta @ A blog for all.

Lastly, there are asssssssshhhhhhhhholllllllles in all places:

WARNING: Please be aware, that according to Sophos (a leading anti-virus company) an email purporting to be from the Dalai Lama, supporting the pro-democracy efforts in Burma, is actually a malicious Trojan virus. Do not open, for any reason!!

La Junta birmana ha exigido a la embajadora de EEUU en el país que vaya de inmediato a hablar con ellos. Villarosa ha sido una de las que más a protestado la represión contra los opositores,
Mientras la represión continúa. Ahora están buscando a los líderes de las protestas: La Junta Militar anunció hoy que las fuerzas de seguridad han puesto en marcha una operación para capturar a cuatro monjes budistas, considerados los líderes de las manifestaciones pacíficas que alentaron la movilización popular.En un parte oficial emitido por la televisión estatal, el régimen que preside el general Than Shwe, señaló que los cuatro monjes cuyas identidades no facilitó, desempeñaron un “papel destacado en las protestas”, reseñó Efe.

A raíz de la ola de detenciones emprendida por las fuerzas de seguridad, y según residentes en Rangún, numerosos monjes y civiles decidieron esconderse o huir de la ciudad con destino a las regiones del este de Birmania controladas por las minorías étnicas.

También por medio del parte, la Junta Militar aseguró que mantiene detenidos a 109 monjes, pero no precisó si están formalmente acusados.

En cuanto al informe de Ghambari, el enviado en la ONU, confirma lo que ya nos temíamos todos:

El enviado especial de Naciones Unidas a Birmania, Ibrahim Gambari, ha comparecido ante el Consejo de Seguridad del organismo y ha asegurado que no han cesado las denuncias de abusos por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad del país. Por ello, ha advertido a la Junta Militar en el poder que la represión contra las manifestaciones pacíficas tiene repercusiones internacionales.

“Las Naciones Unidas y la comunidad internacional siguen con gran preocupación los constantes y preocupantes informes sobre abusos cometidos por las fuerzas de seguridad y otras no uniformadas, especialmente en la noche mientras dura el toque de queda, que incluyen redadas en hogares privados, arrestos arbitrarios y desapariciones“, ha asegurado Gambari.

Gambari también hay informes no confirmados sobre el número de muertos, que ha sido “mucho mayor que la docena de muertos anunciados por el Gobierno”. Además, ha pedido al Gobierno birmano que libere a los prisioneros políticos si quiere iniciar un diálogo con la oposición encabezada por la Nobel de la Paz Aung San Suu Kyi. Según el Gobierno birmano, se ha liberado a 2.095 personas detenidas y asegura que se excarcelará a más “como resultado de mi petición a las autoridades”. El enviado especial pasó cuatro días en el país para elaborar su informe sobre las protestas.

Pero Ban Ki-Moon sólo encuentra “repugnantes” estos hechos. Yo hubiera usado algo más fuerte para describirlos…

En cuanto a la oferta de la Junta para reunirse con Aung San Suu Kyi, la oposición las ha calificado como de “irreales”, al señalar que le están intentando obligar a que se acuse de unas ofensas que no ha cometido -porque realmente no son ofensas-. Las condiciones puestas por la Junta eran que renuncie a sus “prácticas obstruccionistas” y que abandone el apoyo que da a las sanciones que la comunidad internacional impone contra Birmania. Ban Ki Moon también se luce aquí, porque dice que un diálogo serio es indispensable. Hmm, claro, dialogar con estos asesinos es indispensable. uaghhhhhhh!!

El embajador de Estados Unidos ante la ONU, Zalmay Khalilzad, aseguró este viernes, en una intervención ante el Consejo de Seguridad, que Washington está dispuesto a volver a poner sobre la mesa las sanciones, que incluirían un embargo a la venta de armas a Birmania. “Lo que ha sucedido es inaceptable, y lo debe ser para los vecinos de la región y para los que estamos en esta sala”, afirmó el diplomático.

El Gobierno español ha emitido un comunicado en el que valora la situación en Birmania:

El Gobierno de España manifiesta su viva preocupación por la actual situación en Birmania, que está siguiendo muy de cerca” y se suma a las peticiones realizadas a las autoridades birmanas para que den muestras de la “máxima contención, ya que la represión violenta de las protestas que se están desarrollando en los últimos días podría tener muy graves consecuencias.

Lo he encontrado en este post de Schwan, muy interesante para conocer más aspectos de la represión. Especialmente esta es muy importante:

Me he enterado de que un coronel se ha negado a asesinar a monjes budistas. Si el coronel Hla Win y su hijo logran llegar a Noruega para pedir asilo, está dispuesto a contar lo que sabe de las atrocidades cometidas por la junta militar birmana según el diario Aftenposten, cuyo enlace he incluído más arriba. Pues bien, este militar birmano que desertó ha sido amenazado con pena de muerte; seguramente por la posible difusión de la verdadera opresión que se está llevando a cabo.

Ojalá llegue y pueda hablar sobre lo que allí pasa… Así que quien sepa y quiera rezar, esta es una buena ocasión.

Para que veais la diferencia entre cómo viven los de la Junta y cómo vive la gente, aquí teneis dos videos. [Por cierto, menuda horterada de boda… es también otro abuso a los derechos humanos la horterada de coche que tienen los novios…. ]

Noticias relacionadas:

Total no tiene previsto salir de Myanmar, pero tampoco considera realizar nuevas inversiones en el país asiático, dijo el presidente ejecutivo de la petrolera francesa en una entrevista publicada hoy por el diario Le Monde. La compañía salto a la palestra la semana pasada cuando el presidente francés, Nicolas Sarkozy, llamó a congelar las inversiones de compañías de su país en Myanmar, donde manifestantes fueron asesinados durante una protesta pacífica de monjes budistas en contra del Gobierno militar, informó Reuters.

Me extrañaba que Sarkozy no hubiera dicho nada, así que mis críticas de ayer no sirven.

Por último, la empresa de software Sophos ha denunciado la explotación de lo que está pasando en Birmania por unos desalmados que mandan mails con un Troyano dentro. Este es el texto del mensaje:

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

Please find enclosed a massage from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in support of the recent pro-democracy demonstrations taking place in Burma. This is for your information and can be distributed as you see fit.

Best wishes.

Tenzin Taklha Joint
Secretary Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Cuando se abre el archivo adjunto intenta explotar una vulnerabilidad del Word.

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Wonders of Cuban Healthcare

Wonders of Cuban Healthcare - Part I UPDATE: English Translation of Report « Free Thoughts

Stefania is beginning a mail-bombing to send these and other photos to Michael Moore.

No wonder the Cubans are leaving in thousands…
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Lo que veis arriba son fotos del sistema sanitario cubano. Mi amiga italiana Stefania está iniciando un mail-bombing para mandar estas y otras fotos a Micheal Moore (link de arriba), lo que no estaría mal considerando su película Sicko…
No me extraña que, como posteé el otro día, estén huyendo del “paraíso robolusionario” a miles…

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Uncategorized, DDHH/HR, Birmania/Burma, dictadura/dictatorship, blogosfera/blogosphereOctober 4, 2007 11:34 am

Free Burma! Campaign on October 4th