Ex-leaders from 20 countries urge China to press Myanmar to end violence
2007-10-05 16:51:29 -
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Former presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers from 20 countries urged China's president Friday to use his nation's influence to encourage the military regime in Myanmar to use nonviolence and make democratic reforms.
The military rulers of the Asian nation, also known as Burma, ordered a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators last week, which activists claimed left as many as 200 people dead and 6,000 arrested.
In a letter to Chinese President Ju Jintao, the former leaders urged him to use his country's ซuniquely powerful positionป to push for the release of opposition leader and 1991 Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
Suu Kyi has spent nearly 12 of the last 18 years under house arrest, after the military junta refused to accept her party's victory in 1990 national elections.
The letter, coordinated by former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, urged China to support an immediate arms embargo of Burma, and urged the regime to open a dialogue with the opposition.
ซChina is the country with greatest influence on the military junta in Burma,ป said Bondevik, who organized the letter through the Oslo Center for Peace and Human rights he founded after stepping down as prime minister in 2005.
In addition to Bondevik, those signing the letter included former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Ireland's former President Mary Robinson, the Philippines former President Corazon Aquino and Brazil's former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
နအဖနဲ့ပတ္သက္တဲ့တရုတ္ရဲ့သေဘာထားကိုေျပာင္းလဲဖုိ့၊နိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၂၀ က နိုင္ငံေခါင္းေဆာင္ေဟာင္းေတြကေတာင္းဆို
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These people should petition the CIA to stop inciting this uprise.
Yet again China get dragged into this while you people ignore the fact George Soros’ OSI has been financially supporting the uprise.
George Soros was the one who destroyed the Thai Baht back in 1997.
The Burmese democracy activists have openly acknoweleged receiving support from OSI. Add on qusai-government organization like NED funded Einstein Institute operated by CIA officer Col. Robert Helvey - and people wonder why.
Are you going to talk about America’s privatization of foreign policy like this, where cold-war warriors justify their existence by spending their ill-gotten gains on behalf of Uncle Sam?
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