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The Launch: Burma’s Military Regime

There is only one Nobel Laureate in detention throughout the world, her name is Aung San Suu Kyi and she’s currently under house arrest in Burma. Throughout her incarceration she has courageously maintained a face of dissension and peaceful resistance in a country destroyed by tyrannous military forces. Today alone, courts in Myanmar sentenced over one dozen activists to long-term prison sentences. Leaders of the pro-democracy movement in Burma are subjected to a wide variety of heinous actions as a result of their beliefs in freedom, solidarity, peace, and democracy. Activists and members of specific ethnic groups have been raped, stabbed, tortured, and murdered by the self-proclaimed government that has refused to relinquish power in the face of serious opposition from national and international peace organizers. The military regime in Burma maintains power through fear, and execution; bloggers in Burma have been given up to 20 year prison sentences for posting political pieces on an internet censored by the regime. Organizers of the latest pro-democracy movement received 65 year prison terms earlier this week, and their lawyers aren’t allowed to defend them in what the regime is calling closed court trials but are nothing more than hanging courts; that’s how you stop democracy, no assembly, no speech, no dissent. Ban Ki Moon plans to visit Burma, for what reason I can’t really imagine, the elections took place, long ago, and these men with guns that took power aren’t going to let it go, and they haven’t earned it. The people have spoken, the people are speaking, and they will not be silenced in the face of some extraordinary odds. For the people of Burma, the children in fear, the monks in protest, and the men and women imprisoned, we’re launching the entire regime.

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