BURMA OUT!! Reply to Downer in Her

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Subject: BURMA OUT!!  Reply to Downer in Herald Tribune

Most of our work to oust Burma from Syd 2000 is taken
on behind closed doors. However, some of this we can 
relate to the Burma lists



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The International Herald Tribune.
          iht@xxxxxxx

LONDON 

There is no press freedom in Burma.

In his appeal for "sanity" in Burma, published by the IHT 
on Monday August 23, by a strangely conspiratorial Australian 
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, is writing in the mistaken 
belief that anyone other than industrialists will have an interest 
in his words of appeasement. For most do not have time for his 
fine words. In fact, the time for words by any  Australian government 
or by those governments that still coddle Rangoon has  long gone. 

Similarly to the many prisoners of the apartheid regime's policies in 
S Africa.  Burma is "out the window" . The facts are these. 

There willl be a security ring placed around the Olympic Stadium. 
The 2 mile exclusion zone.

Politely or not, requesting that taxis do not enter. And the Australian 
unions will decide their own methods and fate, based upon the trials 
and tribulations of the forceably disenfranchised Burmese people 
and of their elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

There will be no participation of Burma at the Sydney 2000 
Olympiad.

Having entered the political fray in 1996 that preceded and then
allowed the USA to have a full compliment of nations at Atlanta 
96. we feel that these actions in throwing the first major state drug 
producer / exporter out of this major sports event will be the 
inspiratioin that many members of the international community 
desire. Far beyond watching badminton, weightlifting and boxing 
friends of the regime. And a junta friendly white wash.

86% of all the heroin on Australian streets comes via the junta 
in Rangoon. 

Burma is a major supplier of the world's heroin. The military  dictatorship 
in power is involved in the manufacture of heroin and  other hard drugs. 
It uses the profits to maintain itself in power and  continue the abuse of 
human rights including it's refusal to allow  the elected leader of the 
nation take her rightful position.

Canada and America are also the "dealers" of Burmese heroin.
The drug profits then build roads, bridges (and heroin refineries) 
which allow  the military  regime to function as part of the Golden Triangle
chain of command.  And many people are knowledgeable in regard to human
rights abuse inside Burma and its connection with hard drug 
manufacturing but feel helpless in regard to changing the situation.

Unlike the Australian Foreign Minister. A large number of children are
already aware that unless a  war on drugs is waged openly and on all 
levels there cannot be such  thing as a  genuine war upon drugs. An
anti-drug education which  focuses solely on  problems within their own
nations is only half of the fight.  The suppliers of drugs  abroad must 
also be exposed and stopped. This  is even more  mportant when  the
suppliers are being seen to gain  support, either actively or through
intransigence, from their governments.

Generation and maintenance of international pressure can come from 
a  range of sources, including lobbying of governments, unions and 
other  international bodies such as the International Olympic Committee
(IOC).

The purpose of the Burma Out! campaign is to use the precedent set 
in 1964 when, because of international pressure, and nations threatening 
to withdraw,  S Africa was "unofficially" excluded at the Tokyo Olympics.

17,000 journalists will attend the Sydney 2000 Olympiad. The forced 
absence of Burma would provide a rapid anti-drug / pro-democracy 
education to billions of people. It would show that the regime in  Burma 
is unacceptable to the world community. And unlike Alex Downer and the Aus
government, Burma Out also provides  vital moral support for 
Burmese people who want to see their friends  and families able to 
exercise their fundamental rights to freedom of expression and 
association in safety, without fear of imprisonment, torture nor
ill-treatment.

The longer term :

Any country involved in the manufacturing of hard drugs and/or abuse of 
human rights should come under open scrutiny. For their participation in 
world sporting events only adds support to actions of the regimes.
Through the high level general interest in sport, the next anti-drug 
target will be soccer mad Columbia, the cocaine cartels and FIFA /  the 
World Cup.

CONCLUSION

Sport and politics : This is not an India V Pakistan at Lords, situation.
This is aso a clean up sport campaign. A genuine People's War. And
it will also educate and influence millions of people, both in the UK  and 
around the world, while so doing.

Mihra UK is the central co-ordination unit of an international  campaign to 
educate people on human rights issues and also anti-drug  education. It is 
the central body for other co-ordination units around the world including 
Australia, Holland, Spain, Sweden and France etc etc. And it runs the 
most powerful anti-drug communications loop in existance.

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In 1993, after the UN had lifted sports sanctions, Roger Bunn was the 
first person from the international community to be banned by the 
minority government of S Africa.

In 1988, founded the small but highly influential subgroup of the Anti
Apartheid Movement, Golf Against Apartheid with Donald Woods as President. 

Golf development was Indonesia's primary tourist investment. And 
is now expanding in Burma. But not for long.



Follow the appreciations of the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker
John Pilger,  HH the  Dalai Lama, The Free Burma Coalition, 
Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congresswoman  Maxine Waters,
parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and 
Welsh rugby star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,
Abdullah Ibrahim, musicians,  All Burma Students Democratic Organisation,
All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian 
Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx,
and numerous others.   

Support a REAL war on drugs : 
Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!

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