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Large turnout at Burmese and Chinese embassies in London

dv | 27.09.2007 18:58 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | London | World

Large numbers of protesters rallied outside the Burmese embassy, before marching to the Chinese embassy to demand China's support for the pro-democracy uprising in Burma.

Two hundred or so protesters, a mixture of Burmese and non-Burmese, crowded the Burmese embassy in Mayfair at lunchtime on Thursday, calling for democracy and an end to the ongoing violence and repression in Burma.


The crowd included, amongst others, many Burmese pro-democracy activists, who were in good voice, supporters from Amnesty International and Burma Campaign UK, and plenty of media and paparazzi. The rally was addressed by a number of speakers, including a representative of the repressed Karen people of the Burma-Thai border region, speakers from Amnesty and Burma Campaign, and even a Tory MP (who was heckled). All expressed solidarity with the peaceful demonstrators in Burma and called for restraint and an end to repression by the military junta. No one from the embassy dared venture out to address the crowd.


After an hour or so, around a hundred demonstrators marched to the Chinese embassy in Portland Place, via Berkeley Square and Regent Street, chanting "Free, free, Burma, Burma!", with many toots and gestures of support from passing motorists and onlookers.


There followed an hour and a half or so of chanting outside the Chinese embassy, the crowd calling out relentlessly: "China, China - don't refuse people power!", "democracy, democracy - now, now!", "let the UN do its job", "stop the killing in Burma", "stop selling weapons to Burma", "free Aung San Su Kyi - now, now", "China gains, Burma suffers", "stop supporting the Burmese / military regime" - all interspersed with Burmese national songs. Again, no spokesperson from the embassy was forthcoming.


The demonstrators will be back at the Burmese embassy at the same time (12 - 1 pm) tomorrow, and every day until democracy is restored in their home country. Please, please come and join them in solidarity - they so desperately need the support of the people of the West.


Embassy of the Union of Myanmar (Burma)
19 A CHARLES STREET (near Berkeley Square)
LONDON W1J 5DX

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Video of the demonstration

27.09.2007 22:13

Watch video of the demonstration on  http://www.amnesty.org/ .

Donnacha DeLong


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democracy my arse

27.09.2007 21:46

You mean stop selling cheap oil to France and China and sell it to the UK/USA, because theirs is costing them lots of pennies and lives.
Not to mention the propping up of military juntas in Iraq , Afghanistan , Pakistan.
I can smell the money and the hypocracy above the pathetic media frenzy

daggle


One day the troops and commanders in Burma Myanmar will have to face War Crime.

28.09.2007 16:57

It is heart breakingly unbelievable to think in our millenium years when we face such climate changes as global warming, future floods, famine, death and whatever else nature throws at us that as educated human beings we cannot live and let live.
When a soldier beats a monk or another human being, in an act of brutality as shown by the news, bloggers and very brave photo smugglers in Burma Myanmar they are shown on the internet which maybe is not visible to the population of Burma or Myanmar but with such a large audiance as the whole world with an internet connection, do you really think any of us are not shocked, disgusted, outraged and if we where in your country we would gladly join the PEACEFUL PROTEST... thats right. Since when did you hear even a joke about the Burma or Myanmar Monk murdering another human, beating them to death, torturing them but they have had to suffer in silenc and who is to say that the beatings stopped 19 years ago, they may still have continued and that is why it is so easy for the millitary not to feel ashamed and murderous.
Many people around the world look to you Burma Myanmar and many people around the world will look to the day that these crimes are brought to the court of human rights where upon the offenders will receive at least long custodial sentences when the death penalty is not possible.
POWER to the Monks and Brave People of the worth fighting for new Democratic Burma or Myanmar.
God bless you all, Michelle in Amsterdam.

Michelle Jayne Lankamp from Amsterdam, Nederland
mail e-mail: michelle@viviendoenelparaiso.com
- Homepage: http://www.viviendoenelparaiso.com


er daggle...

28.09.2007 18:58

dude...get off your cushy westernised "look at me aren't i anti-capitalist" backside and open your eyes. people are getting £$%^^ed over by b£$%^ds with guns. don't care where in the world that stuff goes down...it's still wrong.

DJ


exactly my point

29.09.2007 15:11

So why the sudden media frenzy with Burma only.
Burma has had this type of rule for lots of years.
Open your eyes dude and think , why now , and why Burma?
Seems you've fell for it hook , line and sinker.
If you really think that my country the UK gives a shit about democracy , then well ......

daggle


not really the case

30.09.2007 19:44

nah Daggle, you've kinda missed it here.
If the UK wanted the oil and natural gas they would just have to ignore the sanctions. And they would get it a lot cheaper than in a democracy where they would have to compete for contracts against all the other countries who would also be wanting to buy the oil, since there would be no sanctions.
Why do you think China's so happy with the situation? It's only real competitor is India.
You're far too cynical - yes, Western governments and all governments are hypocritical. But there is also an element of humanity and respect for human rights, which governments, lest their electors, can't ignore.
In the case of Burma, its government is illegitimate, and it has mismanaged the economy to the extent that the Burmese people are on the streets risking their lives. The military has responded with violence and brutality. It would be hypocritical for Western governments to ignore it.

Peter


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“The overwhelmingly greatest enemy of Myanmar is not any regime, past or present

05.10.2007 14:42

Cuba opposed foreign interference in Myanmar's affairs
Why the sudden interest in Myanmar (Burma) ?

“The overwhelmingly greatest enemy of Myanmar is not any regime, past or present, but US and Western European imperialism, and those attached to it.”

Everyone should oppose totally the current US based plot to overthrow the government of Burma based on propaganda, imperialist lies and New York and Washington engineered franchised revolution. The ICG (International Crisis group) pushing the regime change is a front group for the Council on Foreign Relations and jewish billionaire and global pirate George Soros who also funds Human Rights Watch, Moveon.org and Moveon’s new front group Avaaz  http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1139&l=1

On ICGs board is Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski who engineered the soviet invasion of Afghanistan to use it as a battle ground to inflict on the Soviet Union a military and moral defeat on the scale the US suffered in Vietnam. Additionally ICGs advisory council is made of multinational energy strip mining conglomerates and looter banks such as JP Morgan and credit Suisse.

The campaign to overthrow the government of Myanmar is based on lies and is nothing more than a Zionist imperialist war, regime change and color coded franchised revolution for the privatization and neo liberal evisceration of Myanmar’s oil, gas, precious gem resources, strategic ports and markets including currently shut down opium production. It’s also a front on the Zionists and imperialists war on China and war on China’s “weapons of mass production”.

“ It’s a distraction from the quagmire in ME and Iran. Whenever these guys talk about human rights in some country its almost always a distraction and psychological preparation of masses for the next war” “…And by getting rid of the current regime, Burma will become integrated into the international banking system, which will keep the Burmese enslaved. "International oil and international banking. QRS suspects that the closer you look at these two, the more they are revealed to be one and the same monster. “

“Burma/Myanmar has very large reserves of Gas that China wants and the Zionist US doesn't want it to have for cheap - and so far they've resisted financial infiltration by the moneychangers. Both these factors among others (Drugs, Oil, Precious Gems) are good enough reasons for the zionized US government to get embroiled. There is one thing that we can all agree on, however - it's NOT a humanitarian cause. The fascination with Burma/Myanmar is about power, greed, and most importantly CONTROL.” “In the drug trade, it's all about monopoly.”

“ If Move On (and their new front group Avaaz) were an anti-war group they would have a petition to stop the US/Ethiopian occupation of south Somalia - where this weeks Washington Post article admits the Ethiopian (US-proxy) troops have killed 1000 people in "recent weeks" - instead of having an imperialist pro-war petition against Myanmar where all they can come up with is that the the Myanmar government allegedly shot 9 demonstrators. The "israeli" zionists, funded by our taxes, kill more Palestinians than that every week in Gaza. I don't see any petitions for Palestine from Move On. Note that U.S. assistant secretary of state Jendayi Frazer (who is mentioned in this article as having gone to Mogadishu Somalia recently to support the phony puppet government that the Ethiopians/Americans have set up there to try to justify the occupation) also was the Bush administration speaker at the pro-war rally against Sudan in April 2005 in Washington DC. Move On, and Jewish billionaire George Soros's other groups, have played a large role in inciting war against Sudan as well.

The anti-Sudan and anti-Myanmar propaganda are both tactics in imperialist economic warfare against China.

"China has a trade surplus meaning they have amassed a fortune of currency from selling Americans every disposable consumer item their credit cards can handle. New York billionaires want all that money and control over all the Chinese currency, trade and economic activity the same way they control the US currency thru the Federal Reserve Bank Corporation. The threats to boycott the Olympics are just a extortion shake down to extract huge amounts of cash payoffs in the form of Chinese investments in New York money peoples private equity firm IPOs."

With three countries -- Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam -- vying for the off-shore oil booty in seas where maritime borders are contested, the Cheney gangster cartel hopes to achieve a dominant position to grab that oil. (Burma is right next door. On September 16, 2006, the USA supported a military coup that overthrew Thailand's democratically elected government. Ralph Boyce -- U.S. ambassador to Thailand -- now sports a yellow tie to show his support for the royalist-backed coup, since yellow is the color of the monarchy.”

"Burma is huge in the heroin trade Burma and the Golden Triangle was the largest supplier of heroin for a long time.(until the current administration shut it down to the western drug lords dismay) Now it's Afghanistan and Mexico is coming on fast. In the drug trade, it's all about monopoly. Oil will always be 2nd to the drug trade over all in profits. Just so happens oil is high at the moment." Burma in the news at the moment is about DRUGS! Oil, Drugs, Banking, Precious gems or Gas ? I suspect it's a little of all.

“The overwhelmingly greatest enemy of Myanmar is not any regime, past or present, but US and Western European imperialism, and those attached to it.”

Why the sudden interest in Burma?  http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3813
US Industry/Think Tank blue print and talking points for the war on china.
 http://www.steel.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events1&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=20061
Bread and Butter Issues behind Myanmar Protests  http://gowans.wordpress.com/category/myanmar/
China Approves Oil Pipeline to Burma  http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2006-04/2006-04-17-voa5.cfm



For the Decisive Victory of Myanmar against Imperialism  http://nacazai.org/


China-Myanmar pipelines at  http://www.indoburmanews.net/archives-1/2007/april/china-myanmar-oil-pipeline-projects-to-start-soon

"Cuba opposed foreign interference in Myanmar's affairs."  http://tvscripts.edt.reuters.com/2007-09-18/36a2ff08.html

Burmese FM blames 'opportunists'

He said "neo-colonialism has reared its ugly head" by trying to spread disinformation about human rights
abuses in Burma. "The situation would not have deteriorated had the initial protest of a small group of activists against
the rise in fuel prices had not been exploited by political opportunists," he said.

"They sought to turn the situation into a political showdown aided and abetted by some powerful countries.”
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7023205.stm

Sanctions , Regime Change , Franchised Color Coded Revolutions, Neo Liberal Reforms, Low Intensity Democracy.

"One of the first and best known cyber campaigns confronting the Rangoon government is Burmanet, an e-mail service that distributes news about the country. A mainstay for activists and journalists covering the country, Burmanet is sponsored in part by the financier George Soros. ….Collecting information about human rights abuses and delivering them to Internet-enabled offices along the Thai border is now one of the group's priority operations."
 http://www.iht.com/articles/1999/10/08/rwar.t.php?page=2

Soros Foundation in the Service of US-Zionist Interests: The 1997 financial crisis in Southeast Asia was created by sudden without notice withdrawal of capital by the Soros Foundation with the deliberate intention of causing a financial crisis especially for the Muslim countries of Malaysia and Indonesia. It was part of the US plot to expand its economic hegemony over Southeast Asia.  http://www.irib.com/worldservice/englishRADIO/political/Soros.htm

Soros internet overthrows explained: (Low intensity democracy)  http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1382/MR1382.ch5.pdf

Junta , Thugs or Soros: The Soros Threat To Democracy  http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275526219598836

Billioniare George soros also funded Tienemman square to destabilize China and seize control of Chinas economy.
 http://books.google.com/books?id=jaP_2ARAsIIC&pg=PA342&lpg=PA342&dq=soros+wired&source=web&ots=YIk8YiIr8a&sig=hOz2fQMH_d2DFNh0R4-zEhJ7Z-4#PPA342,M1

"Billionaire George Soros"
 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22jewish+billionaire+George+soros%22&btnG=Search

The ICG International Crisis group pushing the regime change is a front group for the Council on Foreign Relations and billionaire global pirate George Soros who also funds Human Rights Watch, Move On and its front group Avaaz.  http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1139&l=1

On ICGs board is Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski who engineered the soviet invasion of Afghanistan to use it as a battle ground to inflict on the soviet union a military and moral defeat on the scale the US suffered in Vietnam. Additionally ICGs advisory council is made of of multinational energy strip mining conglomerates and looter banks such as JP Morgan and credit Suisse.

The use of satellite data: it should be noted the funding of this comes from … “Bromley’s group got funding from the Open Society Institute and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.” The Open Society Institute is the brainchild of George Soros, who was demonized earlier this week for his funding of Move On and other political activities in the US. Soros’ money is being used to unduly influence the election via front groups, a practice that is called “astroturfing” where a small number of manipulators form fake “grass roots” groups that are then given pulbicity in the press who is under the impression that their opinions are a true grass roots representation.

“The military government in Rangoon has continuously and vehemently chastized Aung San Suu Kyi as being an axehandle of the Americans – the person who supports U.S. policies toward that country. She is portrayed by the military as the puppet of the Americans…. it is highly unlikely that sanctions will result in regime change, which is the goal of that policy.”

International narcotics agenda behind Myanmar instability:

The United Nations credits Myanmar’s central government for leading opium eradication. China has played a major role pressing opium growers to eradicate.

International narcotics agenda behind Myanmar instability  https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/382341.html

Burma, Opium & the CIA: “ To retaliate against Communist China for its intervention into the Korean War, President Truman had ordered the CIA to organize these Nationalist elements inside Burma for an invasion of China…After their invasions of 1950 were repulsed with heavy casualties, these Nationalist troops camped along the border for another decade and turned to opium trading to finance their operations. Forcing local hill tribes that produced opium, the Nationalist troops supervised a massive increase of opium production on the Shan Plateau of Burma. After the Burmese army evicted them in 1961, the Nationalist forces established a new base camp just across the Burma border in Thailand and from there dominated the Burma opium trade until the mid-1980s…”
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/382329.html

What the "Junta" wants: His Excellency U Nyan Win Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar
 http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/60/statements/mya050921eng.pdf

Well, its said that the fuel crisis sparked off the protests, and this suggests that it has something to do with western controlled institutions.
"The skyrocketing fuel prices are said to be part of the military junta’s economic and financial reform program, coinciding with the high-level mission to Burma by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. "
 http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=91668

"The NLD’s basic program, which consists of implementing IMF-dictated reforms to open Burma up to foreign investors, would be just as catastrophic for ordinary working people…” “… will a free and newly elected Aung San Suu Kyi sign on the dotted line with the IMF and World Bank? And will there be a deal for Western support or will she think a little more carefully about the historical precedent and tell foreign investors where to shove it?” ( Of course she will sign….they butter her bread.)

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

"Activist media sources essentially saying that the Burmese resistance are tools of the West and that we should not support them...yes, it upsets us. A lot."

Next week which corporate media propaganda blitz do you think you'll be dancing to?

"If and when it comes out that the USuk was behind the uprising (as claimed by the junta at the UN), you're going to look pretty damn silly."

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution.  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html

The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros The political agenda of Soros and this group of financial "globalists" will create the conditions for a new outbreak of war, even world war, if it continues to be tolerated.  http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/engdahl-soros.html

SOROS, ROTHSCHILD, MARC RICH  http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a7d6c502b97.htm

Israel’s Double Game in Southeast Asia  http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6124

stop attacking Myanmar


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