Please help us
Tan Sang | 23.06.2004 09:43
I came to this country from Burma two weeks ago to help raise awareness of the current situation in our beautiful country and the continued oppression there. I was advised to read Indymedia UK as I was told it would show me how the British people have not forgotten Burma and are still active in helping us.
I have now been reading it for the past week and I have become more and more angry with each passing day. I have read articles with people complaining about not having the right to have a party, about being filmed by the police during a demonstration, a vegan festival and other inconsequential trivia. Please imagine how unimportant these things seem to me, where I come from people are starving, pregnant women are dragged off by SLORC troops to work in the jungle, gang-rape is used everyday as a tool of oppression and 45 million people live without even the most basic human rights. While this is happening there are those on Indymedia complaining about having their disco party stopped by the Police.
You live in luxury in this country, you can write to newspapers, make speeches, argue with police and soldiers and the worse that might happen is you will be arrested and receive a fine or short prison time. If we try to do any of these thibgs we are shot or tortured.
www.freeburmacoalition.org
I ask you to please help us, to forget your trivial problems and do whatever you can to help us overthrow this terrible regime.
I have now been reading it for the past week and I have become more and more angry with each passing day. I have read articles with people complaining about not having the right to have a party, about being filmed by the police during a demonstration, a vegan festival and other inconsequential trivia. Please imagine how unimportant these things seem to me, where I come from people are starving, pregnant women are dragged off by SLORC troops to work in the jungle, gang-rape is used everyday as a tool of oppression and 45 million people live without even the most basic human rights. While this is happening there are those on Indymedia complaining about having their disco party stopped by the Police.
You live in luxury in this country, you can write to newspapers, make speeches, argue with police and soldiers and the worse that might happen is you will be arrested and receive a fine or short prison time. If we try to do any of these thibgs we are shot or tortured.
www.freeburmacoalition.org
I ask you to please help us, to forget your trivial problems and do whatever you can to help us overthrow this terrible regime.
Tan Sang
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