REGIME CHANGE IN BURMA

It's been one month since Burma's brutal regime launched its bloody "Black Friday" May 30th attack against democracy.

When: 10 a.m., June 30th, 2003 (Monday)

Where: U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC

SPDC Outpost (Embassy), 2300 S Street, NW

Schedule: 10am - Rally, U.S. Capitol
1 pm - Protest, SPDC Embassy, 2300 S Street, NW
3:30 pm - Protest, Japanese Embassy, 2520 Massachusetts Ave, NW
4:30 pm - Protest, Indonesia Embassy, 2020 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Contact: Jeremy Woodrum (202-547-5985); Zaw Oo (202-361-6664) Tin Maung Thaw (703-980-8083), Yin Aye (240-432-5097), Aung Kyaw Myint (607-339-7054)

Burmese and friends of Burma's democracy movement around the United States invite you to join an international solidarity movement for Regime Change in Burma.

Instead of heeding ongoing calls for a genuine dialogue and national
reconciliation, Burma's illegitimate military regime still turns a deaf ear.

On May 30th, regime-sponsored thugs viciously assailed democracy leader and 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and many of her supporters. Dressed as monks and democracy party members, they murdered or injured over one hundred in the attack. Since then, the regime has held Burma's democracy leaders, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and hundreds of her supporters, incommunicado.

The May 30th massacre dashed the hopes and dreams of the Burmese people for political dialogue and national reconciliation. The people of Burma have suffered and resisted repression, rights abuses, and dire poverty since the regime seized power through a bloody military crackdown on a democracy uprising in 1988, and has yet to honor the 1990 general elections that should have brought Aung San Suu Kyi and her party to power.

Today the only language the regime understands is force - especially the
force of people power to dethrone it. This regime deserves only tougher
pressure and sanctions from the international community. We, Burmese
democrats, earnestly appreciate the recent US government's actions and plans for an import ban on Burmese products as punishment to the military thugs.

Actions of the Day:

The peaceful gathering will be held at the front of the Capitol
Building in appreciation of US Congress and Administration's support and renewed sanctions against Burma's military junta while residents from different states will meet with their respective congressional leaders and staff to call for more support for the democracy movement in Burma.

Protests will proceed in front of the SPDC Outpost (Embassy) and in front of the Indonesian and Japanese embassies, whose governments are the supporters of the Burmese military regime. A letter will be handed to the Indonesian and Japanese Governments, demanding that the utmost be done to obtain the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and of all political prisoners, and to push for true democratic change in Burma.