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Check it out- flash mobs are awesome, Shepard Fairey is awesome, and the Burmese Junta sucks. This is going to be sick if it's pulled off successfully!
"This weekend, we’re at it again. Sunday at exactly 4:00 p.m., we will be staging a flash mob at the Abbot Kinney Music Festival in Venice. To participate, grab your free poster created by artist Shepard Fairey depicting Aung San Suu Kyi. When the clock strikes 4:00, unfurl your poster and stand in silence for five minutes, in solidarity with Aung San Suu Kyi and to raise awareness about her imprisonment as a symbol for the issues plaguing Burma."Check it out- flash mobs are awesome, Shepard Fairey is awesome, and the Burmese Junta... more
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As always happens with the news from far away countries, Burma is remembered only when there are street protests or when there is one more trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader imprisoned for years. But of course the tragedy of the Burmese people continues, and sometimes manifests itself externally in other ways, as in the mass exodus to China of certain minorities, which occurred recently.As always happens with the news from far away countries, Burma is remembered only when... more
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Come sempre accade per le notizie da paesi lontani, la Birmania viene ricordata solo quando ci sono proteste di piazza o quando si tiene l'ennesimo processo a Aung San Suu Kyi, la leader dell'opposizione imprigionata da anni. Ma ovviamente il dramma del popolo birmano continua, e a volte si manifesta all'esterno anche in altri modi, come nella fuga di massa verso la Cina di alcune minoranze, avvenuta recentemente.Come sempre accade per le notizie da paesi lontani, la Birmania viene ricordata solo... more
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Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to 18 months extended house arrest after crazy mormon John Yettaw decided to visit her at her home. The uninvited intrusions just happened to break the terms of her detainment thus negating her from contesting the Burmese 2010 elections.
Hmmm....yeah, you could see this coming.
At least this lets us shoot the shit about Burma and keep the issue alive....
Peace!
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JAY DEE: JAY LOVE JAPAN: 'Can't You See'Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to 18 months extended house arrest after crazy mormon... more
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She would have be free on May 21st after spending most of the last 20 years in prison. But Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to other 18 months of house arrest at his home in Rangoon: guilty of having violated her house arrest because she let a pacifist American going into her house.She would have be free on May 21st after spending most of the last 20 years in prison.... more
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Il regime birmano ha condannato Aung San Suu Kyi ad altri 18 mesi di arresti domiciliari: non potrà così partecipare alla prossima campagna elettorale. E l'Unione Europea ha deciso di sanzionare i giudici che hanno emesso la condanna.Il regime birmano ha condannato Aung San Suu Kyi ad altri 18 mesi di arresti... more
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A Myanmar court has found pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kui guilty of violating her house arrest, but the head of the military-ruled country says she can serve out an 18-month sentence under house arrest.A Myanmar court has found pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kui guilty of violating... more
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Yangon, Myanmar -- A Myanmar court convicted pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi today of violating her house arrest, but the head of the military-ruled country said that she could serve a 1 1/2-year sentence under house arrest.
The court initially sentenced Suu Kyi to three years in prison. But after a five-minute recess, the country's home minister entered the courtroom and read aloud a special order from junta chief Than Shwe.
The order said that Than Shwe was cutting the sentence in half to 1 1/2 years and that it could be served under house arrest. He said he reduced the sentence to "maintain peace and tranquillity" and because Suu Kyi was the daughter of Aung San, a revered hero who won Myanmar's independence from Britain.
Suu Kyi has been in detention for 14 of the last 20 years, mostly under house arrest.
The 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was charged after an American intruder swam across a lake and spent two nights at her home in early May.
She could have been sentenced to as long as five years in prison.
The American, John Yettaw, was sentenced to seven years' prison, including four years' hard labor.
Minutes before the hearing began, journalists were unexpectedly allowed to enter the courtroom, inside Yangon's closely guarded Insein prison. Diplomats were also present.
Journalists had been allowed to cover proceedings on only two prior occasions since the trial started May 18.
Suu Kyi's trial drew international condemnation, with analysts and diplomats anticipating a guilty verdict.
A verdict had been scheduled for last Friday, but judges said they needed more time to sort through legal issues and it was rescheduled for today.
Suu Kyi's lawyer, Nyan Win, had said Monday that he had expected the rulings to be delayed again because Yettaw had spent a week in a hospital.
But a government official said Yettaw was discharged Monday night from Yangon General Hospital.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Yettaw, 53, of Falcon, Mo., was charged as an abettor in violating her detention.
He was hospitalized last week after suffering seizures. He reportedly has epilepsy, diabetes and other health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in the U.S. military.
National police Chief Khin Yi told the media last week that a team of seven medical doctors looked after Yettaw. But he declined to comment on his condition.
The trial of Suu Kyi refocused international outrage on Myanmar -- also known as Burma -- which has been ruled by its military since 1962.
The regime in recent days has beefed up security in Yangon, claiming that domestic and foreign opposition groups were planning attacks to coincide with the Suu Kyi trial.Yangon, Myanmar -- A Myanmar court convicted pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi... more
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YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar court has sentenced American John Yettaw to seven years in prison, including four years at hard labor, for entering pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's home while she was under house arrest.
The 53-year-old Yettaw was found guilty Tuesday of violating the terms of Suu Kyi's detention by swimming to her lakeside home uninvited and staying for two days.
Suu Kyi was also found guilty and ordered to serve an 18-month sentence under house arrest.
The court sentenced Yettaw to three years in prison for breaching Suu Kyi's house arrest, three years in prison with hard labor for an immigration violation and another year in jail with hard labor for swimming in a restricted zone.
It was not clear if the prison terms would be served concurrently.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Original story at link...YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar court has sentenced American John Yettaw to seven years... more
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Celebrities, actor Jim Carrey and artist Shepard Fairey, rally for Aung San Suu Kyi, political prisoner and Nobel Prize winner. Suu Kyi, the democratically elected President of Burma (also known as Myanmar), is being held under house arrest by a ruling military junta. Celebrities, human rights activists, and others, are protesting the treatment of the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient.Celebrities, actor Jim Carrey and artist Shepard Fairey, rally for Aung San Suu Kyi,... more
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A Burmese court on Friday delayed until Aug. 11 its verdict in the trial of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Despite intense international pressure to release the democracy advocate, the junta that controls Burma appears intent on muzzling her as it prepares for 2010 elections to solidify its rule. The trial, concerning charges that Suu Kyi violated the terms of her house arrest, had been delayed repeatedly over the past three months.A Burmese court on Friday delayed until Aug. 11 its verdict in the trial of Nobel... more
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Lawyers for Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have presented closing arguments, as her trial in a Rangoon prison neared its end.
Ms Suu Kyi is accused of violating the terms of her house arrest in May, after a US man evaded guards and swam to her lakeside home.
If convicted she faces up to five years in jail.
The trial has been widely condemned as a ploy to keep the Nobel Peace laureate in custody until after elections.
Polls are planned by the military government for some time next year. Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won the last elections in 1988 but was never allowed to take power.
Ms Suu Kyi, 64, has spent nearly 14 of the last 20 years in detention, much of it at her Rangoon home.Lawyers for Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have presented closing... more
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My friend Sin Yi fled Burma when the Burmese military junta started coming to his village and forcing boys like him to join the army.
"They stop us at the bus station or on the street and by gun point they say to us:
'Come, you must join the army. If you don't join we will kill you. Come, join...'"
Aye Aye Cho told me she left Burma because the junta used to come to her village and separate the women from the men.
"Then they would come and take any woman they wanted to sleep with them in a little hut for the night."
"If you refused to go with them you had to pay them instead. One night they came for me, I told them to come back later and I would pay them. But I didnt have any money, so that night I ran from one bush to the other. I ran away from Burma."
"In Thailand i had friends who told me to go to Malaysia where I would be safe."
"Sadly," she told me, "I listened to these friends."
Unfortunately, what Sin Yi and Aye Aye Cho found waiting for them in Malaysia was equally as tragic as what they left behind.
Burma is bleeding well beyond its borders.
To date there are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma, including Buddhist monks and one Nobel Peace Laureate (Aung San Suu Kyi). Military and civilian officials are involved in the unlawful conscription of child soldiers and wide-spread acts of forced labor inside of Burma. And scores of people are perishing due to the extreme poverty caused by the regime's mis-use of power and by its handling of the Cyclone Nargis crisis.
Yet there is another Burma-related tragedy, which until now has not been widely told.
In April 2009 the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee published the results of a year-long investigation into allegations that the Malaysian government has been complicit in the human trafficking of people seeking refuge from the extreme persecution they faced in Burma. Once in Malaysia, through a highly organized process between police, immigration officials and traffickers, the refugees are sold to prostitution rings and fishing trawlers.
Please Don't Say My Name is an audio documentary; it stems from my friendship with a small group of Burmese refugees who work together in a restuarant in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I spent a year and a half getting to know them and in early 2009 I traveled to Kuala Lumpur to record their stories. Many of them have been sold to traffickers by Malaysian Immigration Officials--and some of them were arrested while I was there.
The audio-only documentary is one hour in length; the interviews are intimate in tone and record many aspects of their lives both inside and outside of work, prison, detention camps and RELA immigration raids highlighting their continued vulnerability in Malaysia--as well as their ability to create family-like bonds despite the severity of their circumstance.
Listen to the whole doc or just to selected clips, and read a photographic essay.
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www.pleasedontsaymyname.orgMy friend Sin Yi fled Burma when the Burmese military junta started coming to his... more
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To tie up the loose ends and sew up the final argument on the trial of Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, her defence counsels will be meeting her on Friday July 17, in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison, where she is being detained.
Nyan Win, a member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s legal team and spokesperson for her political party National League for Democracy on Wednesday told Mizzima that they are negotiating with the authorities to allow more meetings with their party leader.
“So far we have confirmed the meeting on Friday. But we are still negotiating with the authorities,” he said.
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged and put on trial since mid-May, for violating her detention laws and ‘harboring’ an American man, who secretly sneaked into her lakeside villa in early May.
The special court in Insein prison has fixed July 24 for the hearing of the final arguments from both lawyers. The court is expected to come up with a verdict after hearing the final argument.
Nyan Win said, the defence team has prepared a 20-page final argument and will seek the approval of the accused, Aung San Suu Kyi.
“This is the second draft of the final argument. We will show it to Daw Suu and if she finds it necessary to amend it, we will do so,” said Nyan Win. But he refused to reveal the contents saying it will be an argument rejecting the charges and to prove Aung San Suu Kyi’s innocence.
Should she be found guilty the Burmese democracy icon could face up to five years in prison. She has spent more than 13 of the past 19 years in detention, mostly under house arrest.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in New York that the Burmese junta’s proposed general elections in 2010 will lack credibility unless the regime frees Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
Ban, who early this month paid a two-day visit to Burma, on Monday briefed the UN Security Council saying he was ‘deeply disappointed’ over Burma’s military supremo Snr. Gen Than Shwe’s refusal to allow him a meeting with the detained opposition leader.
After Ban’s briefing, Burma’s Ambassador to the UN Than Swe said, the Burmese government is preparing to announce amnesty for prisoners in order to allow them to participate in the 2010 elections. He, however, did not mention how many political prisoners would be released and whether they would include Aung San Suu Kyi.
NLD leaders, however, said they are skeptical about the junta’s declaration saying it could be another ploy to divert the attention of the international community.
“We really do not hope for much from this announcement because even when they released over 9,000 prisoners earlier, only about 30 political prisoners were included. So, even this time, it might just be the same thing,” they added.
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Pictures of the life of Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
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Myanmar's military government is to free some political prisoners under an amnesty and allow them to participate in next year's elections, the country's ambassador to the UN has said.
Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York on Monday, Than Swe did not say how many political prisoners would be released or when, or whether opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be among those freed.
But he did say that Myanmar's ruling military would also agree to UN demands that they hold talks with the opposition and allow credible elections next year.
"At the request of the Secretary-General [Ban Ki-moon], the Myanmar government is processing to grant amnesty to prisoners on humanitarian ground and with a view to enabling them to participate in the 2010 general elections," Than Swe said.
Myanmar's government will "implement all appropriate recommendations that [the] secretary-general had proposed. So, no Security Council action is warranted".
The announcement of the prisoner release is apparently an attempt by Myanmar's government to avoid further UN sanctions amid mounting international frustration at the political stalemate in Myanmar.
According to human rights groups more than 2,000 political prisoners are being held in Myanmar's jails or under house arrest.
Briefing
Monday's Security Council meeting was called to hear a briefing from the UN secretary-general on the outcome of his recent two-day visit to the country.
During the trip, Ban met Myanmar's military chief, Senior General Than Shwe, on two occasions but failed to obtain permission to meet Aung San Suu Kyi who is on trial inside Yangon's Insein prison on charges of violating her house arrest.
After his visit Ban had expressed disappointment that the military government had provided no guarantees that they would release Aung San Suu Kyi, or that it would follow UN recommendations for democratising a nation that has been under military rule since 1962.
But the UN chief told the 15-nation council's members that he went because virtually no other world leader could gain the ruling generals' attention.
During his visit Ban was told he would not be allowed to meet Aung San Suu Kyi as it would interfere with the judicial process of her trial.
On Friday the final defence witness in the closed-doors trial gave testimony, arguing that the opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate was innocent because the charges were based on a constitution abolished two decades ago.
Aung San Suu Kyi is charged with violating the terms of her house arrest by harbouring an uninvited American man who swam secretly to her lakeside home and stayed for two days.
No date has been given for a verdict, but she faces up to five years in jail if found guilty.
The trial has drawn international condemnation, while opposition supporters have said the charges have been trumped up by the military to keep Aung San Suu Kyi out of next year's elections.
Suu Kyi has been in detention for nearly 14 of the last 20 years, mostly at her Yangon residence.Myanmar's military government is to free some political prisoners under an amnesty and... more
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Protesters have gathered on the streets of Manila to mark the 64th birthday of Burma's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
They are calling for her release and denouncing her trail, which demonstrators believe is intended to put a halt to her political activities.
Aung San Suu Kyi is currently on trial for breaking the terms of her detention, when an an American man swam to the house where she is being held and stayed overnight.
At the rally, her supporters made a birthday cake and and spelled out the words "not guilty" with hundreds of red roses.
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(CNN) -- Myanmar pro-democracy figure Aung San Suu Kyi turned 64 in prison Friday, while a judge considers when to hear her appeal to allow more witnesses at her subversion trial.
Suu Kyi, under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, had been expected to be freed by the military junta last month, until the new subversion charge was filed.
"Today is Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th birthday and it is a tragedy that she will spend it in prison as the Burmese regime pursues its absurd and contemptible sham trial of her," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday, using the name for Myanmar preferred by many Western governments.
"On this day, I and all of Europe call again for Aung San Suu Kyi's release," he said. "She's an inspiration to me and to all those that fight for human rights, for democracy, and for a better and fairer world."
Brown was speaking in Brussels, Belgium, just after the European Council called for her immediate unconditional release.
Thousands of supporters left birthday messages of 64 words or less for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate on a Web site created for the occasion.
This message, posted late Thursday, was signed by a woman in the United Kingdom:
"This message isn't going to be remarkable. 64 words are not enough for this injustice, not that 64 million would be; but I hope you find them heartening. I am just one of many wishing the world fairer, and you are one of so few self-sacrificing for just that outcome. You are an inspiration, a fighting soul and an aspiration; a hero. Stay strong."
Another supporter in Norway wrote:
"People around the world have followed your fight for freedom and democracy for the people of Burma. God bless you!"
Suu Kyi is accused of violating her house arrest by offering temporary shelter to American John William Yettaw, who swam to her lakeside home on May 3. She said she doesn't know Yettaw, didn't know of his plans and didn't do anything wrong.
The trial is taking place near Yangon at Insean Prison, where Suu Kyi has been held since last month.
Her supporters say the arrest is meant to keep her confined so she cannot participate in the general elections that the junta has scheduled for next year.
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64 for Aung San Suu Kyi is a site that invites all to send messages 64 characters in length, to Aung San Suu Kyi.
This site was created in just 6 days to show support for Aung San Suu Kyi and to wish her well on her birthday.
I urge all to visit the site and add your 64 for Aung San Suu Kyi!
http://www.64forsuu.com64 for Aung San Suu Kyi is a site that invites all to send messages 64 characters in... more
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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 64th birthday in detention on Friday as supporters worldwide condemned her trial and called for tougher sanctions against the military regime.
Nyan Win, a lawyer defending the Nobel laureate who faces up to five years in jail, said Suu Kyi would be allowed a few visitors to Yangon's Insein prison, where she is on trial over charges she broke the terms of her house arrest.
"I'm going to send her some birthday presents and food so she can celebrate with a few guests," he told Reuters.
Confined for nearly 14 of the past 20 years, Suu Kyi's birthday has become an annual ritual inside and outside Myanmar for campaigners seeking an end to decades of military rule that has left the country an impoverished international pariah.
But the day has taken on added significance this year amid international outrage at her trial, which is widely expected to end with a guilty verdict.
Protests are planned outside Myanmar embassies in major capitals around the world.
An online campaign, www.64forsuu.org, drew thousands of messages of support, including good wishes from world leaders and celebrities.
"Aung San Suu Kyi is an inspiration to her country and the rest of the world," wrote former Beatle Paul McCartney. "I truly admire her infallible resolve and her determination to stand up for what she believes in."Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 64th birthday in detention on... more
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