[burmanet2-l] Re: AOL Chooses, Then

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Subject: Re: [burmanet2-l] Re: AOL Chooses, Then Deletes Burma Junta Web Page

Oh, this is very good, OKKAR, very good, indeed!  The SPDC is free, fair,
and honest, and it is the rest of the world who are liars! The liars
include the UN High Commission for Refugees, most all the governments of
the world's developed nations, many local governments, NGO's, and
academics, politicians, and journalists in those countries, on down to the
hundreds of thousands of miserable refugees themselves, sheltering in their
bamboo huts outside your border, each with his horrifying story to tell...

Duh, now who should we believe, the tyrant and his lackeys, or the million
witnesses to his tyranny?  Why should the world provide a stage for your
lies, your viciousness, and your evil, any more than it would for Hitler's
Nazi's?  That AOL deleted "Myanmar" from its web site, reminds us that
there are still people who cannot be bought with money earned from slavery,
theft, and murder.

Kudos to AOL, and to those who brought this situation to their attention.  

Fairness?  What could fairness possibly mean to a creature like you, OKKAR?
 After your masters have stolen everyone else's rights, you have the nerve
to come and ask for their "fair share" of our rights?

You see, the benefits of democracy are like a nice dinner in a proper
household, OKKAR: You can't come to the table unless your hands are clean.  

Now go home like a good boy and tell your momma what I said.

At 12:35 AM 8/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>This is the sample of how the so-called Burma activists are practising free 
>and fair expressing in the Internet.
>
>These activists were feedig the world with one-sided and very biased 
>informations at least 2 years ahead of their opponents by using e-mail 
>facility.
>
>When their opponents are countering some measurements to balance the news 
>these activists can not allow free expression while the  are shouting aloud 
>for free expression.
>
>For those who want the truths of our country are cordially invited to write 
>to 
>"myanmar-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx" and subscribe Myanmar Information list.
>
>The subscribers of the Myanmar Information list are free to post their views 
>and news to the list regardless of pro-democracy or pro-SPDC.
>
>Regards,
>
>Okkar
>
>
>
>In a message dated 8/18/99 8:09:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>dohrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
><< Free Burma Coalition                www.freeburmacoalition.org
> 
> Contact: Dr. Zarni, Free Burma Coalition, zarni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 202-777-6009
> 
> For Immediate Release:
> 
> 
> America Online Chooses, Then Deletes Burma Junta Web Page
> 
> Dulles, Virginia -- August 18, 1999 -- America Online, the leading
> internet Service provider in the United States, has made an abrupt
> about-face.  
> 
> On Friday August 13th, AOL chose the site www.myanmar.com to be linked to
> AOL's Asia Forum.  The problem?  The site is operated by the ruling
> military junta of Burma (also known as Myanmar), identified by Reporters
> Sans Frontieres as one of the world's "real enemies" of the internet.
> 
> The Burmese junta jails citizens for "unauthorized" use of fax,
> photocopiers and computers with modems.  Internet service, including AOL,
> is unavailable to all of Burma's 46 million citizens, save a few
> "authorized" friends of the regime.
> 
> Ironically, an email message from Burma's Office of Strategic Services
> (the secret police) alerted exiled Burmese democrats to AOL's gaffe.  The
> message copied AOL's announcement, which gushed "We think you'll notice
> dramatically increased usage because of this exposure."
> 
> Though an international pariah, the junta makes extensive use of the
> internet to distribute its propaganda.  The website in question,
> www.myanmar.com, is mostly used to lure hard-currency-carrying tourists.
> But elsewhere the page compiles vituperative articles from the
> junta-controlled press. Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Peace Laureate
> Aung San Suu Kyi comes in for particular scorn, often called a "sorceress"
> or a "lackey of colonialists."  The more than 100,000 Burmese refugees
> huddled in Thailand are labelled "terrorists," though groups such as
> Amnesty International say they are vicitms of rape, torture, forced labor
> and murder.
> 
> "We informed AOL of the fact that the junta operates this page, and gave
> them some information about pervasive human rights violations in Burma,"
> says Dr. Zarni, Burmese founder of the Free Burma Coalition. "It looked
> bad for an 'information technology' company to be leading its users to the
> propaganda page of a regime that has closed the universities and
> restricted all kinds of information, including the internet.  To their
> credit, AOL reacted quickly," he adds.
> 
> AOL informed the Free Burma Coalition on Tuesday, August 17 that "we have
> removed the website in question from the International Country Pages."
> 
> END
> 
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