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May 9 Rally & Vigil at Pelosi Office
Letter
to Pelosi Feinstein and Boxer
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Burma Rally & Vigil
for People's safety and recovery during Cyclone
destruction
and a sham
referendum in Burma
Burma Supporters Vigil and Fundraise
for Cyclone Victims and
ask Speaker
Pelosi to Push for Final Passage
of Sanctions Bill against brutal Burma’s Junta
When: Friday, May 9, 2008 4-8pm ** Press conference at 4pm. ** Speakers at 6pm
Where: San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue
Visuals: Burmese monks and Burma supporters, meditation, signs, music,
prayer & collection for Burmese cyclone victims
Bay
Sham referendum is taking place in
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San Francisco Federal Building/Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Office
Once again Burma needs us in the aftermath of death and disaster that Cyclone
Nargis left in its wake. Compounding the suffering of 46 years of military rule,
the cyclone has left a devastating legacy in this already impoverished country.
The amount of energy and expense the junta has spent over these last months
suppressing opposition to a forced referendum and hunting down and imprisoning
dissidents, stands in sharp contrast to their failure to give timely warning to
the delta’s population — when the likely path of the storm was evident to
meteorologists all across South Asia. It stands in contrast to the government’s
slow and deadly response to the storm itself, and to the obstacles it places to
the receipt and distribution of disaster relief funds and materiel.
As a friend of Burma and a leader in the community, we ask you to join this
vigil, which has three purposes:
1. To send our prayers and strength to the Burmese people as they dig out from
this disaster, to collect funds for relief, and to keep the spotlight on the
junta to ensure that relief agencies and monies are allowed into Burma.
2. To push for the full passing of the Burma Democracy Promotion Act, 2007 bill.
Both Houses of Congress unanimously passed this bill months ago and it is now
stalled in conference working out the differences between House and Senate
versions.
3. To ensure that the junta will indefinitely postpone the constitutional
referendum until such a time as there can be a full and open vote —
internationally monitored by respected parties acceptable to all sides.
In the aftermath of the storm, the ever-present military, which immediately
cracked down on peaceful monk-led protests during the Saffron Revolution last
fall, was nowhere to be found. More than 25,000 deaths are reported, tens of
thousands missing, and a million are without food, shelter and water. Some say
the death toll could rise to as high as 100,000. The junta says the election
will be held in most of Burma, but the hardest hit areas will vote at a later
date.
Please join us stand with the people of Burma. Call me with any questions at the
numbers below. Thank you so much for your support of Burma. We look forward to
seeing you Friday.
Contacts/websites/co-sponsors: badasf.org; bpf.org; uscampaignforburma.org; sasanamoli.org; info@badasf.org; 510 593 4388; 510 220 1323; 707 360 8452; Sasana Moli (International Burmese Monks Organization), Burmese American Democratic Alliance (BADA), Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) and US Campaign for Burma (USCB)
Why Pelosi
Office/Federal Building: To remind Speaker Pelosi, the US Congress
and the Bush administration to impose (already promised) strong sanctions
against the illegal regime without further delay. The saffron revolution has
passed seven months already, but no new sanctions promised by the congress
against the regime have been realized emboldening the brutal regime to forge
ahead with its plan to eliminate opposition: the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Though that House and Senate have both passed the
Bay
Sham referendum is taking place in
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San Francisco Federal Building/Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Office
Contacts/websites/co-sponsors: badasf.org; bpf.org; uscampaignforburma.org; sasanamoli.org; info@badasf.org; 510 593 4388; 510 220 1323; 707 360 8452; Sasana Moli (International Burmese Monks Organization), Burmese American Democratic Alliance (BADA), Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) and US Campaign for Burma (USCB)
Why Pelosi
Office/Federal Building: To remind Speaker Pelosi, the US Congress
and the Bush administration to impose (already promised) strong sanctions
against the illegal regime without further delay. The saffron revolution has
passed seven months already, but no new sanctions promised by the congress
against the regime have been realized emboldening the brutal regime to forge
ahead with its plan to eliminate opposition: the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Though that House and Senate have both passed the
Why it is so
important to stand up for Burma yet again:
Remember that this regime is brutal and ruthless, has
neither shame nor creditability, nor obeys the law including its own, spares no
one even women, children, nuns and monks, and has even tried to kill Aung San
Suu Kyi. So, in reality, the regime does not need a constitution to rule
Rather it wants
to erase the 1990 elections results that give Aung Suu Kyi and her NLD
legitimacy and also to fool the international community to ease pressure. With
this, the regime is also testing the international community in its limit on how
far it can go in eliminating the opposition. If the world just watches and let
the regime claim an easy victory after the successful ruthless crackdown of the
Saffron Revolution, we will loose Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD and many other
opposition leaders and institutions. Besides, immoral and greedy neighbors such
as
More About
May 10 Sham Referendum: On
The referendum
has been hastily scheduled and forcefully held by the regime to claim a quick
and easy victory amid the continued and intense crackdowns that has been going
one since the Saffron Revolution. Many monks and leaders are still on the run or
in hiding. Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest and hundreds of opposition
leaders and student’s leaders are in prisons. Besides having to struggle daily
to live hand to month, people of
Besides, learning from the 1990 elections in which it has badly lost to opposition, the illegal regime has used every possible means to assure them a victory in the referendum in which no international monitors will be allowed. The regime has designed the process so that it can control the out come and assure its victory regardless of how people would have voted. It has even altered the constitution in the last minutes that the constitution needs only a majority of those that actually vote, not the majority of eligible voters regardless how few people have participated. Besides, the regime has also ordered/threatened all civil servants and soldiers to vote ‘Yes’.
Realizing that the 1990 election results and NLD is on the line, the military will be even more hardened, the opposition will face more scrutiny and crackdowns, and the country will sink deeper into the dictatorship and slavery, the opposition (monks, students and NLD alike) -- with very little options they have, united in one voice and launched campaigns asking people to vote ‘No’ to help the NLD. There are numerous reports of a systematic and brutal crackdown of activists, with multiple arrests and including numerous accounts of attacks by the regime’s thugs against NLD organizers resulting in severe head wounds and hospitalization.
The
constitution shamelessly crafted by the military without the opposition and
people’s participation and revealed only a month or so ago, assures the military
to keep its iron hands on the people of Burma. Here are some highlights of the
rather remarkable constitution -- written in the 21st century of our time ---
that is deigned to legalize the military enslaving of the people in
So, all in all,
Thanks and regards,
Nyunt Than