Birmania

Help the People of Burma (Birmania) —
Post this Meme on Your Blog!
Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a
petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the
instructions in this blog post. This not an issue of partisan politics, this is
an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human
tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.
By
passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more
awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this
something we bloggers can do to help.
How to participate:
1. Copy this
entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234
2.
After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find
all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition.
Note: Google
indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show
up in the results.
THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US
There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning
off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get
news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports
to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking.
I encourage you to read these
accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.
The
situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed
peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march
for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that
will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule.
While the generals in
power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people
of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest
of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.
This week the
people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations
against the ruling Junta in decades. It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency,
and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military
rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at
least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers
beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.
The actual fatalities and
injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from
individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it
looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly
women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns. Contrary to what the
Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local
internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the
global community.
As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government
anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully
demonstrating, unarmed citizens. In this modern day and age violence against
unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without
serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to
happen again somewhere else.
If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to
each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they
arise.
Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate
peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further
violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in
Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.

- Il blog ha aderito alla campagna di Blogosfere.it a favore dei monaci buddisti in Birmania. Infatti in questi giorni sono stati bloccati tutti i mezzi di comunicazione.Il blog si tinge di rosso perché la libertà di parola è il principio fondamentale per un mondo moderno. I giovani universitari ricorrevano a facebox per far uscire le notizie...ma ora niente...casualmente si è danneggiato un tubo sottomarino. Niente internet.
Ma ci siamo noi e dobbiamo darci da fare affinche tutto questo finisca.
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