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Subject: >Subject: Burma Out!   Reflections of protest :  9999

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>Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 18:13:34 +0100
>To: burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
>From: policy.office@xxxxxxxxx (Roger Bunn)
>Subject: Burma Out!   Reflections of protest :  9999
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>The fight against tyranny is an ongoing process. From
>an early age until death.  
>
>Battle and war touch many of us. More in some nations
>than others.  Yet, all are touched by needless suffering.
>This, I know to be.
>
>The tempting and profitable "solution" to peaceful protest 
>in regard to any "advent of democratic freedom in their 
>nation" is to use guards and guns to hold sway to power. 
>And to use "rules" that are designed to set man against 
>man, woman against woman, and the military, against 
>freedom.
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>And in the Burmese junta's case? Actuate from the 
>business world benign to the openly mass murderous.  
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>But they who come to power by force over the democratic 
>process,. No matter right nor left, no matter in E Timor nor 
>Djakarta, will be called to the bench to explain themselves.
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>                         A massive task?
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>  The recent improvements in communications?
>
>The "Truth Commission" of S Africa is an example of what
>could be established? 
>
>But as the WW2 nazi trials were only touching the tip of the 
>chase the nazi iceberg, maybe the international community 
>should begin to establish ways wherein, no matter how long 
>after the events, all property  traced back to those who 
>supported inhumane regimes, should be "taxed".
>
>The object being that if one gets arrested for not paying
>ones "support the drug dealing dictators tax", ones ex military 
>butt is then shoved into an international cell.  One probably 
>far more humane than those one shoved others.  And maybe 
>a little like the aged Pinochet?
>
>Couple an ordinary cell with that of a citizens right of arrest? 
>And we have no peace for those in Burma who presently 
>grow rich while others die.  
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>And, as in the recent case of ex UK premier the Lady Margaret 
>Thatcher. "The gods first send mad those that they wish to 
>destroy"
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>We almost have a moral obligation to save the gods their 
>wearisome duties..
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>We wish you well 9999. The world's eyes are already focused 
>upon your part of the world. And, no matter where you may be 
>in it at present.  We wish you well. 
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>We wish you well 9999, for yours is the task that proves the 
>truth of the above.  In bringing world attention to your struggle
>for freedom in Burma, you, along with your Karen and Shan
>comrades and those in embattled E Timor, are openly leading 
>the field.
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>Rr
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>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, Congress-
>woman  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.   
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>Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!
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