European Commission: Sanctions Appe

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Subject: European Commission: Sanctions Appeal

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Headline: Euro-Burmanet's Appeal to the European Commission: Heed Suu 
Kyi's Call for Sanctions
Keywords: NLD ban,  National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu 
Kyi, human rights, political prisoners, torture, murder, execution, 
rape, Slorc abuses, forced labor, forced relocation, NLD Congress 
9/96,NLD arrests, NLD crackdown 9/96,
Date: 1996 
Source: BNN,EuroBurmanet
Section: ebn
Rubrique: main

It appears this is what President Bill Clinton and his advisors were 
waiting for. ASEAN nations balked at "Myanmar " membership. Now the 
ASEAN alliance is in disarray over Burma atrocities and human rights 
abuses. 

La Femme D'Or, the Golden Woman -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi -- has the whole 
world  doubting the self-proclaimed "legitimacy of Slorc" as "nonsense" 
and child-like in its recent behavior, embarrassing its Asean 
billionaire friends the entire international diplomatic and political 
community at large. The Golden Lady has Slorc under more pressure to 
give up the game and throw down  its cards in its history of senseless 
repression and contempt for democracy, bankrupting the nation as the 
whole General Assembly of the United Nations, the World Bank and other 
financial lending agencies wince and shake their heads in rebuke at 
Slorc's dwindling image abroad.   

Slorc is running out of cards, and running scared, with no tree tall 
enough to shadow it, no cave deep enough to hide in, no mountain too 
high to conceal its weakness and crimes.  Investors, too, are scared of 
what is to become of their bargain deals in a climate of uncertainty, 
instability, and alarm. 

In a filmed interview that was smuggled out of Burma to Brussels and 
shown at EC hearings early in the week, democracy leader  Suu Kyi called 
upon the Europeans to vote for sanctions against the military 
dictatorship,
and deny Burma access to the European Generalised System of Preferences 

The EC began an inquiry into forced labour child labour in Burma earlier 
this year after
complaints from the ICFTU and the European Trade Union Confederation.

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) report on 
Burmese forced labour says that many Burmese have been killed or 
reported missing after being recruited by the army as forced labourers.

Yet, on the issue European Commission technocrats dragged their heels, 
and with wagging  tails, waited for the US to assert is world 
leadership. Meanwhile Slorc is in a quandry over where to hide its 
billions, knowing full well that a democratic Burma will call on all 
international banks to return the billions stolen from Burma through 
drugs and illegitimate business deals. 

Slorc is afraid to harm Suu Kyi. Alive she is dangerous, and in like her 
father a great leader and the stuff of  martyrs she is ubiquitous an  
omnipresent. Slorc can not contain her movement, no matter how greatly 
they try to isolate her.  Slorc propaganda is now ridiculed throughout 
the world while millions in Burma come to her support in Burma and 
outside, in the United States, Europe and far parts of the world where 
she has emerged as a great fearless fighter for liberty. Strenthened by 
her steady faith in Buddhism, and daily meditation, on the world she she 
has no equal. Even against the angry bunch of Slorc generals and heroin 
drug trafficers of the Golden Triangle and from other regions of Burma, 
Suu Kyi's appeal for dialogue infuriate the old men who have for far too 
long usurped the power of the Burmese people and its numerous ethnic 
populations, the Karens, the Mons, the Rohingyas, the Shans and other 
indigenous groups.  

Suu Kyi  has a greatness of beauty, calm inner strength and power to 
render truth visible and clear. Her logical mind and visionary 
intelligence surpass her and inspires her supporters, in a way unlike 
Mahatma Gandhi's followers filled the British jails during India's 
non-violent resistance movement in the era when her father General Aung 
San led Burma to freedom.

Slorc is prisoner and keeper of the prison - and Suu Kyi hold the keys.

A wall of support now stands tall and day by day grows taller in  both 
the United States and Europe. In Japan and Australia Suu Kyi inspires 
admiration and respect. The ball is in the court of the European 
Commission to heed her call for sanctions as this is  a time for action 
- and not  just to be heard. 

The Burmese butchers put an entire leadership of a political party in 
jail. You do not do this unless you have the army under your control. 
Still, with all its firepower, Slorc cannot hide from the international 
condemnation of its violations against humanity and its direct and 
responsible role in the Genocide of the Karens, Shans, Mons and other 
indigenous tribes through forced relocation and mass murder.  Today,  
Slorc battalions defect in rising numbers. And as the army crumbles 
adding further chaos to disorder, Slorc's leaders, as in Bosnie, must be 
called  before International Courts of Human Rights and Justice, and be 
held accountable for alleged Crimes against Humanity.

The struggle for democracy in Burma and the restoration of the authority 
of the NLD has reached a turning point in its history. Time is running 
out on Slorc, and the wedge of US angry condemnation of Slorc has gone 
deeper into widening the gap of negotiation for political reconcilation 
and a true democratic process restored in Burma.

Let us see the Europeans act with invincible will and determination as 
we pray that it happens soon. 

Metta, thank you, peace, happiness and long life. Virtually yours, 

Dawn Star  (Paris)  <cd@xxxxxxx>
Burmanet / TOTAL Coordinator (France) 
Euro-Burmanet  (Paris, France) 
Free Burma Coalition
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