South Africa Protest at Khin Nyunt (r)

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Subject: Re: South Africa Protest at Khin Nyunt Visit

June 16, 1999. A very sad day in the history of South Africa when the
SLORC SPDC dictator Khin Nyunt set foot on South African soil invited by
the new President Thabo Mbeki's inauguration. How many dictators are
there at the inauguration? Count them. And line them up. Khin Nyunt at
the head of the line. June 16, 1999. A day of infamy for South Africa
and the democratic world of parodox and incredibility. More arms sales?
Drug laundering? You can be sure they are there not only for
international prestige and gamemanship, but deal making. He needs cash
for the bankrupt and illegitimate regime. dawn star


Kiru Naidoo wrote:
> 
> Media Statement and Letter to Editors around the world.  Spiders should
> kindly forward to their local media from FBC (South Africa)
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> President Thabo Mbeki's inauguration on June 16 is an occasion of great
> joy and celebration for all South Africans.  On the one hand it signals
> the deepening of our democracy and triumph over a racist dictatorship.
> On the other, it is emotional remembrance of our fighting youth who
> sacrificed their lives in the face of the brute force of the apartheid
> state on the streets of Soweto in 1976.  Given our proud democratic
> credentials, we are mystified as to why the South African government
> should want to find common cause with the military junta, which has
> ruled Burma since 1962.  The State Law and Order Restoration Council
> (SLORC) is represented at President Mbeki's inauguration by its
> intelligence chief, General Khin Nyunt.  SLORC's dictatorship is in
> defiance of the will of the people of Burma who in 1990 voted
> overwhelmingly in support of the National League for Democracy (NLD).
> The NLD is led by Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi , a fearless
> woman determined to be the voice of Burma's voiceless.  Daily life for
> the majority of Burma's citizens is a litany of human rights abuses
> including arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour , orchestrated
> rape and other forms of sexual violence. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has
> written about Burma as  the South Africa of the 1990s.  The people of

> Burma are crying out for our help.  Our own history compels us to
> respond.  We call on the South African government to sever its links
> with the military junta in Rangoon and deny the generals the legitimacy
> they so desperately crave.
> 
> Kiru Naidoo
> Free Burma Campaign (South Africa)
> P.O. Box 138
> Pavilion  3611
> Tel:  0825655286  /  +27 82 56 55 286
> Email:  kiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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