Visit Aung San Suu Kyi Square in Am

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Subject: Visit Aung San Suu Kyi Square in Amsterdam

My best Happy Easter Greetings to all friends of Burma as well as a successful
Burmese Thingyan and 
New Year to come.
Spring has just begun in Europe, when I was walking along the downtown of
Amsterdam with the aim in 
mind to protest solo in front of the Heineken brewery, which is doing dirty
business with one of the world's most repressive military dictators known as
"SLORC". Heineken is one of the largest and well-
known breweries in Europe and is until recently supposed to have a good
repercussion. But Heineken 
beer  becomes bloody, when the brewery began to do dirty business with the
blood-stained military 
rulers of Burma. The Burmese inside and worldwide as well as the international
friends of Burma refrain 
from buying the bloody beer as a token of protest against the Heineken-Slorc
collaboration. The Burmese 
military junta Slorc is widely known as the champion of human rights abuses,
which is repeatedly confirmed 
by the successive consensus resolutions of the U.N.Human Rights Commission,
severely criticizing the 
Burmese military authorities for their unparallel human rights violations.
Still walking along the street of Amsterdam, it reminded me something when a
young handsome lady 
asked me for a light, and when she saw my tripple five(555) brand she smiled
curiously at me. But she 
got later disappointed when the cigarette was not tripple ' four '. One of the
Burmese dictator Ne Win's sons 
Ngwe Soe used to enjoy ' 555' with No.4, a well-known indication in the world of
drugs so as in Amsterdam.
It is to be reminded that Burma remains the world's largest producer of opium
and heroin. And the military 
rulers Slorc made cease-fire agreements with the drug-trafficking armies
including Khun Sa and his Mong 
Tai Army. The 'dealings' between the Slorc and the opium armies are so perfect
that the drug lords become 
VIPs ( 'ethnic leaders' ) of the Slorc with very special privileges, and the
drug-producing regions become 
drug-trafficking havens where heroin is produced and trafficked without any
risk, but with the support of the 
Burmese army, so that the heroin-trafficking activities of the drug-armies are
now, obviously with the bless-
ing of the Slorc, considered part of the "legal fold". It is to be noted that
the laundering of drug-profits has a 
wide-spread (negative) impact on the national economy of Burma. And it is also
interesting to monitor when 
and whether Heineken is involving in money laundering in the poorest country.
My imaginations on Heineken's collaborations with the Burmese military junta,
the military junta's collabora-
tion with the drug-traffickers and vice versa were suddently stopped, when an
Amsterdamer police offered 
his service to help me somehow. I told him that I was looking for the Heineken
Square and he accompanied 
me. When we were at the destination, to our great surprise while we were looking
in all four directions, there 
was not a single street sign with 'Heineken Plein' to be seen (Plein=Square in
English). The poor policeman 
insisted that this place is definitely the Heineken Plein. But on all four sides
of the square, there were only 
'original' street signs with "Aung San Suu Kyi Plein". By shaking hands with my
police friend, I told him that 
we both at least were proud to be at the Aung San Suu Kyi Square in Amsterdam,
which stands for peace 
and purity of the human souls.
Later it was learnt that  on a sunny day of the Spring beginning in 1996, the
"Netherland Friends of Burma"
( NFB ) came over to the Heineken Square and renamed it into Aung San Suu Kyi
Square as a symbolic 
protest against the Heineken's greedy involvement in dirty business with the
repressive military junta of 
Burma. Media coverage was great on the following days. The NFB even suggested
the City Council of 
Amsterdam to accept the name officially in honour of the Nobel Peace Laureate
Aung San Suu Kyi. The 
democratic supporters are delighted to congratulate the NFB on the unique idea.
To those who happened to be in Amsterdam by choice or by chance, I would like to
recommend to have 
at least a look at the Aung San Suu Kyi Square. Whether you see it or
unfortunately not, there did exist no 
doubt the Aung San Suu Kyi Square, the symbol of peace and prosperity of the
city of Amsterdam.
Do visit Aung San Suu Kyi Square when you are in Amsterdam!

In Solidarity,

Nwe Aung / Germany