Burma Out! Long boring posting Gol

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Subject: Burma Out!  Long boring posting Goldwyn claims FBC

>Until she shows herself willing to denounce the 
generals openly, and to>cut these engagement policy 
approach that she and her family has adopted >to 
obtain her release under most suspicious conditions, 
we encourage>others to do the same, and to do as 
you please.  >Dawn Star


(How forgiving DS.)

Ladies and gentlemen,

Having been in this "game" for some considerable while.
I have been privilige to work with many well known activists, 
some of whom were from S Africa.

And my experiebce with that nation showed that once 
an activist had "over stepped the line" there was never 
any way back. Rachel Goldwyn commited poitical suicide 
the moment she opened her mouth at Heathrow Airport, 
and handed the junta a propaganda coup. Until that time 
we all in BO, as her friends and supporters, even though 
hampered by her parents wishes for her freedom at any 
price, and the UK media who would eventually have to report 
her words, continued deep faith in Rachel's integrity. But, 
friendship or not, this deeply misguided young woman has 
over stepped the line.  And is no longer considered persona 
gratis by any of the formal Free Burma groups in  the UK. 

She would be a fool to stay around. We are not here, 
on the list, working for freedom, to be betrayed.

Finally :
If Mss Goldwyn had been a black South African with a
home in Soweto, and had handed white minority rule a 
propaganda coup such as she did for the junta, Mss 
Goldwyn would have probably not survived the experience .

This is London. Here is an except from our BO Loop out


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                                   The UK

The junta propaganda machine Emailed us. Said it was
going to send us back a "puppet"... And, reflecting upon 
all the "rubber tyre necklaces" deaths of the past, it didn't 
take long to work that one out.

Obviously, the news of last  week was of the "release of 
one of our number". One Rachel Goldwyn, 28 yrs old, from 
stylish Barnes, west London. Who, when we surfaced BO
8 months ago with the completed plan for the outing of the 
Burmese miitary regime, via the IOC, from the Sydney 2000 
Olympiad. Contacted us and requested that she should make 
banners for BO demonstrations and provided us with some
information on drug abuse in Australia. 

In a bravado of commitment to human rights and in the ousting 
the ethnically unrepresentative team from Rangoon, she was 
prominent on the BO picket lines outside Australia House 
in the Strand.  And independently, although unsupported by 
either the free campaigning groups nor ourselves, confessed 
that she was going to ignore all advice and head for Burma to 
get arrested and released within two months.

"My family has contacts at the Burmese embassy"  Her timing
 was spot on.

The story she now maintains in the European media is 
different from that... "Our Rach", "changed" from innocent but 
"misguided" human rights worker to a "Bride of Juntastein", 
returned to home with her adoring parents. And uncaring 
of the damage caused to exiles, has stated that the "sentence 
shocked her" (7 yrs) and that she thought that "she would be 
deported within a week".

After her return and "trade in" of her comrades and all she had 
previously stood for, Goldwyn brazenly announced that her next 
career woud be as "a  researcher into anti-drug measures 
being taken on by the  junta's miltitary in the north of the 
country".  (As if anyone would ever believe anything she said 
again huh?) And while helping  "the poor from the inside" ,
would also complete her masters degree at SOAS, in London. 

Having met with the family before they went out to get her back, 
I had been  concerned that, although in regard to the fight for 
human rights, Dr Charmian Goldwyn seemed strong, it had 
soon became obvious that she was dominated by a husband 
of a far lesser strength. 

And as one listens to her father talk of a promising career 
with an Unlimited Phone Account. One wonders which part 
of  the Golden Triangle will pay for her anti-drug studies.

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                                     Annex :


One thinks that "brazen" is the correct word for these 
circumstances huh? The Goldwyn goof was not getting released, 
but opening ones mouth without consultation with those who
knew best and supported the most. Thereby sicking up undiluted 
junta propaganda .. Such are the "render refinements" of 
misguided family loyalty. But then Burma would know more 
about "misguided family loyalties" than most I guess.

Here, we don't tolerate as much as in the past.

btw : One hopes that her proposed return, does not further 
disturb the main reasons why we are all, or the ones who are 
not junta mouthpieces, here.  Therefore, can I suggest the we 
end this sickly topic as soon a possible. We can handle the UK 
media on this subject. And Goldwyn will not be accepted as 
genuine here in the UK. If no one on this list allows her the 
contacts and freedoms she wishes for her future, then there 
is little she can do except continue to destroy that which she 
pledged faith in, but at arms length.

Many commiserations to Ko Aung for any future isolation., for 
it may be he who becomes one of the main victims in this case. 
But that's love fer yuh.  gotta take the rough with the smooth.
(And that's his solo choice.) 

But the time for more Goldwyn family  "smooth as silk" material 
is over..




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