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BURMA OUT!! Reply to Downer in Her
Subject: BURMA OUT!! Reply to Downer in Herald Tribune
Most of our work to oust Burma from Syd 2000 is taken
on behind closed doors. However, some of this we can
relate to the Burma lists
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The International Herald Tribune.
iht@xxxxxxx
LONDON
There is no press freedom in Burma.
In his appeal for "sanity" in Burma, published by the IHT
on Monday August 23, by a strangely conspiratorial Australian
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, is writing in the mistaken
belief that anyone other than industrialists will have an interest
in his words of appeasement. For most do not have time for his
fine words. In fact, the time for words by any Australian government
or by those governments that still coddle Rangoon has long gone.
Similarly to the many prisoners of the apartheid regime's policies in
S Africa. Burma is "out the window" . The facts are these.
There willl be a security ring placed around the Olympic Stadium.
The 2 mile exclusion zone.
Politely or not, requesting that taxis do not enter. And the Australian
unions will decide their own methods and fate, based upon the trials
and tribulations of the forceably disenfranchised Burmese people
and of their elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
There will be no participation of Burma at the Sydney 2000
Olympiad.
Having entered the political fray in 1996 that preceded and then
allowed the USA to have a full compliment of nations at Atlanta
96. we feel that these actions in throwing the first major state drug
producer / exporter out of this major sports event will be the
inspiratioin that many members of the international community
desire. Far beyond watching badminton, weightlifting and boxing
friends of the regime. And a junta friendly white wash.
86% of all the heroin on Australian streets comes via the junta
in Rangoon.
Burma is a major supplier of the world's heroin. The military dictatorship
in power is involved in the manufacture of heroin and other hard drugs.
It uses the profits to maintain itself in power and continue the abuse of
human rights including it's refusal to allow the elected leader of the
nation take her rightful position.
Canada and America are also the "dealers" of Burmese heroin.
The drug profits then build roads, bridges (and heroin refineries)
which allow the military regime to function as part of the Golden Triangle
chain of command. And many people are knowledgeable in regard to human
rights abuse inside Burma and its connection with hard drug
manufacturing but feel helpless in regard to changing the situation.
Unlike the Australian Foreign Minister. A large number of children are
already aware that unless a war on drugs is waged openly and on all
levels there cannot be such thing as a genuine war upon drugs. An
anti-drug education which focuses solely on problems within their own
nations is only half of the fight. The suppliers of drugs abroad must
also be exposed and stopped. This is even more mportant when the
suppliers are being seen to gain support, either actively or through
intransigence, from their governments.
Generation and maintenance of international pressure can come from
a range of sources, including lobbying of governments, unions and
other international bodies such as the International Olympic Committee
(IOC).
The purpose of the Burma Out! campaign is to use the precedent set
in 1964 when, because of international pressure, and nations threatening
to withdraw, S Africa was "unofficially" excluded at the Tokyo Olympics.
17,000 journalists will attend the Sydney 2000 Olympiad. The forced
absence of Burma would provide a rapid anti-drug / pro-democracy
education to billions of people. It would show that the regime in Burma
is unacceptable to the world community. And unlike Alex Downer and the Aus
government, Burma Out also provides vital moral support for
Burmese people who want to see their friends and families able to
exercise their fundamental rights to freedom of expression and
association in safety, without fear of imprisonment, torture nor
ill-treatment.
The longer term :
Any country involved in the manufacturing of hard drugs and/or abuse of
human rights should come under open scrutiny. For their participation in
world sporting events only adds support to actions of the regimes.
Through the high level general interest in sport, the next anti-drug
target will be soccer mad Columbia, the cocaine cartels and FIFA / the
World Cup.
CONCLUSION
Sport and politics : This is not an India V Pakistan at Lords, situation.
This is aso a clean up sport campaign. A genuine People's War. And
it will also educate and influence millions of people, both in the UK and
around the world, while so doing.
Mihra UK is the central co-ordination unit of an international campaign to
educate people on human rights issues and also anti-drug education. It is
the central body for other co-ordination units around the world including
Australia, Holland, Spain, Sweden and France etc etc. And it runs the
most powerful anti-drug communications loop in existance.
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In 1993, after the UN had lifted sports sanctions, Roger Bunn was the
first person from the international community to be banned by the
minority government of S Africa.
In 1988, founded the small but highly influential subgroup of the Anti
Apartheid Movement, Golf Against Apartheid with Donald Woods as President.
Golf development was Indonesia's primary tourist investment. And
is now expanding in Burma. But not for long.
Follow the appreciations of the Shan Democratic Union, film maker
John Pilger, HH the Dalai Lama, The Free Burma Coalition,
Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party, Dr and
Welsh rugby star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix bassist Noel Redding,
Abdullah Ibrahim, musicians, All Burma Students Democratic Organisation,
All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian
Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx,
and numerous others.
Support a REAL war on drugs :
Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!
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was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney
2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights
in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording
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