By Kanbawza Win (Mizzima News)
September 5, 2003

Idi Amin, Osama Bin Laden, Sadam Hussein have all taken their turns to mock at the world and have make their exists but the Burmese Military Junta is still calling the shots, Why? Of course one can understand China, India and the ASEAN countries hiding under the facade of the Asian values to maintain the status quo but what is paradoxical is the Western countries led by the US claiming to be the custodian of democracy is still looking on with folded arms.

Pop music stars, world leaders, exiled dissidents and human rights groups have joined the chorus of support for Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is protesting with hunger strike.

Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have expressed concern for her health and safety. The petition calls on the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Security Council’s five permanent members to help bring justice to Suu Kyi and the people of Burma.

Chris Martin of Britain simply says. "The world’s leaders aren’t doing enough to rectify the situation in Burma and call for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release."

The UN’s human rights envoy to Burma, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, said he was deeply disturbed by the reports about Suu Kyi and called on Rangoon to free her immediately and unconditionally. Several world leaders, such as US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Foreign Ministers from Australia and Belgium, had called for her immediate release.

Our intelligence sources clearly indicated that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is being held in the Ye Mon compound of SPDC Light Infantry Battalion in the outskirts of Rangoon. The source added Suu Kyi’s health has deteriorated to the point where military authorities had asked for an ambulance, nurses and a female doctor to visit her.

A coalition of exiled opposition groups, including the ethnic nationalities and Burmese intelligentsia at the Fort Wayne meeting, have issued a statement urging action from the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. And yet the Western World is still not responding to this clarion call. Is it waiting for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to die a martyr’s death as her father? Then they will
shed the crocodile tears for the one and only Asian Women Peace Nobel
laureate. We simply could not comprehend the words and actions of those people who have declared that they sympathise our cause.

The uniform thugs in Rangoon will stop at nothing. Lying being their standard norm they will not dare produced the wounded Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to proof that she is not on hunger strike even though they may have a loud rhetoric.

If Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ever expired, what would be the likely scenario? We dared not contemplate on it and is very much worried, in view of the fact that American led international community is not doing enough. There is a Burmese saying “Wet Phyit Hma Chee Ma Chauk Poo” literally translated means that the pig is not afraid of the dung. That is once the people’s hope is gone than it becomes a free for all. Up to this day the Burmese in Diaspora both Myanmar and Non Myanmar has carried on the non- violent struggle but once our hope is taken away then come what may we are ready to face.

We would ardently request the civilized nations of the world not to lead the Burmese thugs extinguished the flickering light of hope that can solidify the nation under the federal democratic banner.