Press Conference for Democracy in Burma
19/June/2009
Salai Kyawkyaw
၁၉ ရက္ေန႕ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အတြင္း စံုေရာင္ဂီး လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ႏွင့္အတူ ဥေရာပသမဂၢ သံအမတ္၊ အဂၤလန္သံအမတ္၊ ခ်က္ သံအမတ္တိုႏွင့္ အတူ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ မွတ္တမ္း ဓါတ္ပံုႏွင့္ ထုပ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
epa01765711 Kyaw Swa Linn (C), Head of Foreign Affairs Bureau National League for Democracy (NLD)Korea Branch, Brian McDonald, Ambassador European Commission Delegation in Seoul (L) and Martin Uden, British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea(R) speaks for 'Democracy in Burma' to media during joint press conference on National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. on 19 June 2009. EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN
Links http://media.daum.net/foreign/others/view.html?cateid=1046&newsid=20090619133613068&p=yonhap
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Statement at Press Conference Calling for Burma’s Democratization and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release from House Arrest
Today, in celebration of her 64th birthday, we strongly urge Burma to immediately lift the house arrest of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1991 as well as Winner of 2004 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Award.
Democracy and human rights are inherent and universal values of all mankind. However, it is unfortunate that Burma’s transition to democracy has been impeded and human rights of the Burmese people have been violated under the military junta. The incumbent regime seized power through a coup d'etat in 1992 and since then, the Burma’s military rulers continued to infringe on human rights of its own people by illegally arresting, detaining and torturing democratic activists including students and Buddhist monks. During the democratic movement, numerous citizens fighting for democracy were massacred and thousands of political prisoners were imprisoned. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been placed under house arrest illegally enforced by the military junta over the past 20 years since July in 1989.
Korea has similar experiences, but successfully achieved democracy after a large number of democratic activists were sentenced to jail terms, suffered harsh torture and sacrificed themselves under the authoritarian regime. The 18th National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, which experienced a military rule and democratization, takes note that the Obama administration attaches enormous importance to democracy and human rights, and hopes that the Burmese people can also enjoy the same universal values of democracy, peace and human rights as the rest of the people at the earliest possible time.
We are strongly convinced that unless the people of Burma give up hope for democracy and courage, they will win the battle against the military regime and achieve democracy and human rights in the end just as Korea did. We hereby urge military-ruled Burma, the United Nations and the U.S. administration to immediately implement the following actions with the aim to bring democracy to Burma.
1. We sternly condemn Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's illegal placement under house arrest by the Burmese military regime and urge the regime to immediately lift her house arrest and release all democratic leaders.
2. We strongly call for the Burmese military government to implement the democratic process as pledged to its people and to immediately eliminate and address any human rights violations or undemocratic institutions.
3. We urge the United Nations and the U.S. government to exert every possible authority available in order to lift the illegal house arrest of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
By Members of the Korean National Assembly
Calling for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release from House Arrest
and Burma’s Democratization
19/June/2009
Salai Kyawkyaw
၁၉ ရက္ေန႕ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အတြင္း စံုေရာင္ဂီး လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ႏွင့္အတူ ဥေရာပသမဂၢ သံအမတ္၊ အဂၤလန္သံအမတ္၊ ခ်က္ သံအမတ္တိုႏွင့္ အတူ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ မွတ္တမ္း ဓါတ္ပံုႏွင့္ ထုပ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
epa01765711 Kyaw Swa Linn (C), Head of Foreign Affairs Bureau National League for Democracy (NLD)Korea Branch, Brian McDonald, Ambassador European Commission Delegation in Seoul (L) and Martin Uden, British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea(R) speaks for 'Democracy in Burma' to media during joint press conference on National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. on 19 June 2009. EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN
Links http://media.daum.net/foreign/others/view.html?cateid=1046&newsid=20090619133613068&p=yonhap
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Statement at Press Conference Calling for Burma’s Democratization and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release from House Arrest
Today, in celebration of her 64th birthday, we strongly urge Burma to immediately lift the house arrest of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, who is a pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1991 as well as Winner of 2004 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Award.
Democracy and human rights are inherent and universal values of all mankind. However, it is unfortunate that Burma’s transition to democracy has been impeded and human rights of the Burmese people have been violated under the military junta. The incumbent regime seized power through a coup d'etat in 1992 and since then, the Burma’s military rulers continued to infringe on human rights of its own people by illegally arresting, detaining and torturing democratic activists including students and Buddhist monks. During the democratic movement, numerous citizens fighting for democracy were massacred and thousands of political prisoners were imprisoned. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been placed under house arrest illegally enforced by the military junta over the past 20 years since July in 1989.
Korea has similar experiences, but successfully achieved democracy after a large number of democratic activists were sentenced to jail terms, suffered harsh torture and sacrificed themselves under the authoritarian regime. The 18th National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, which experienced a military rule and democratization, takes note that the Obama administration attaches enormous importance to democracy and human rights, and hopes that the Burmese people can also enjoy the same universal values of democracy, peace and human rights as the rest of the people at the earliest possible time.
We are strongly convinced that unless the people of Burma give up hope for democracy and courage, they will win the battle against the military regime and achieve democracy and human rights in the end just as Korea did. We hereby urge military-ruled Burma, the United Nations and the U.S. administration to immediately implement the following actions with the aim to bring democracy to Burma.
1. We sternly condemn Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi's illegal placement under house arrest by the Burmese military regime and urge the regime to immediately lift her house arrest and release all democratic leaders.
2. We strongly call for the Burmese military government to implement the democratic process as pledged to its people and to immediately eliminate and address any human rights violations or undemocratic institutions.
3. We urge the United Nations and the U.S. government to exert every possible authority available in order to lift the illegal house arrest of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
By Members of the Korean National Assembly
Calling for Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release from House Arrest
and Burma’s Democratization
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