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Nobel Peace Laureates to Lead International Call for Release of AungSan
Suu Kyi and 1500 Political Prisoners in Burma
November 30, 2001
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
A ceremony on 8 December in honour of 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San
Suu Kyi, attended by fellow Laureates Desmond M. Tutu and Jose Ramos
Horta and others, in front of the Norwegian Parliament will serve as a
forum for demanding Aung San Suu Kyi?s release from house arrest and the
release of twenty-one elected members of the Burmese Parliament and
fifteen hundred other political prisoners detained by Burma?s ruling
military junta.
Hosted by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in cooperation with Worldview
Rights, the Oslo ceremony which forms part of the Nobel Peace Prize?s
centennial celebatration will be linked to at least thirty similar
ceremonies by Aung San Suu Kyi?s supporters all over the world by
satellite and internet as part of the ?Nobel Peace Laureate Campaign for
Aung San Suu Kyi and the People of Burma?.
The campaign is chaired by Archbishop Tutu, Jose Ramos Horta, Oscar
Arias, former President Corazon Aquino (Philippines) and former US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Archbishop Tutu expressed his sentiments for the event?s cause: ?I have
the greatest possible admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi and believe that
her cause will eventually prevail?. Mrs Albright noted that ?while the
world is taking a determined stand against international terrorism, it
should not forget one of the world?s most courageous and principled
champions of human rights and democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi?.
In the current climate of stalemate in talks between the SPDC and the
democratically elected leadership of Burma, the 8 December event is
meant to set a sign. In Burma, informal talks started a year ago as the
ILO called for its member states? reevaluation of their relationship
with the Burmese junta in the light of its findings of the widespread
regime-condoned use of forced labour in the country.
While at the current point in time Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house
arrest in Rangoon, Amnesty International counts more than fifteen
hundred political prisoners, including twenty-one elected members of
Parliament are detained by the junta. Aung San Suu Kyi?s National League
for Democracy won over 80% of the seats in the Parliament in the 1990
elections. Her Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for her ?pursuit of human
rights and democracy for Burma?.
Further information may be found at: burmapeacecampaign.org. For
coverage of the 8 December event in Oslo consult:
www.worldviewrights.org
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<center><b><font color="#000099"><font size=+1>Nobel Peace Laureates to
Lead International Call for Release of AungSan Suu Kyi and 1500 Political
Prisoners in Burma</font></font></b></center>
<p><font color="#FF0000">November 30, 2001</font>
<br><font color="#FF0000">Mizzima News <a href="http://www.mizzima.com";>(www.mizzima.com)</a></font>
<p>A ceremony on 8 December in honour of 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate Aung
San Suu Kyi, attended by fellow Laureates Desmond M. Tutu and Jose Ramos
Horta and others, in front of the Norwegian Parliament will serve as a
forum for demanding Aung San Suu Kyi?s release from house arrest and the
release of twenty-one elected members of the Burmese Parliament and fifteen
hundred other political prisoners detained by Burma?s ruling military junta.
<p>Hosted by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in cooperation with Worldview
Rights, the Oslo ceremony which forms part of the Nobel Peace Prize?s centennial
celebatration will be linked to at least thirty similar ceremonies by Aung
San Suu Kyi?s supporters all over the world by satellite and internet as
part of the ?Nobel Peace Laureate Campaign for Aung San Suu Kyi and the
People of Burma?.
<p>The campaign is chaired by Archbishop Tutu, Jose Ramos Horta, Oscar
Arias, former President Corazon Aquino (Philippines) and former US Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright.
<p>Archbishop Tutu expressed his sentiments for the event?s cause: ?I have
the greatest possible admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi and believe that
her cause will eventually prevail?. Mrs Albright noted that ?while
the world is taking a determined stand against international terrorism,
it should not forget one of the world?s most courageous and principled
champions of human rights and democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi?.
<p>In the current climate of stalemate in talks between the SPDC and the
democratically elected leadership of Burma, the 8 December event is meant
to set a sign. In Burma, informal talks started a year ago as the
ILO called for its member states? reevaluation of their relationship with
the Burmese junta in the light of its findings of the widespread regime-condoned
use of forced labour in the country.
<p>While at the current point in time Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house
arrest in Rangoon, Amnesty International counts more than fifteen hundred
political prisoners, including twenty-one elected members of Parliament
are detained by the junta. Aung San Suu Kyi?s National League for Democracy
won over 80% of the seats in the Parliament in the 1990 elections. Her
Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for her ?pursuit of human rights and democracy
for Burma?.
<p>Further information may be found at: burmapeacecampaign.org.
For coverage of the 8 December event in Oslo consult: www.worldviewrights.org
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