| By LALIT K JHA | Friday, October 24, 2008 |
NEW YORK — The release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi should be the first step towards the reintegration of Burma with the international community, a United States official said on Wednesday.
The call for Suu Kyi’s release was made in a US State Department statement released in Washington on the eve of the 13th anniversary of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.
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| Burmese residents in Japan with a portrait of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi chant slogans at a Tokyo park, on September 27. (Photo: AP) |
"As the Burmese regime's single most important supporter, China holds the key to Aung San Suu Kyi's release," said Aung Din, the executive director of US Campaign for Burma. "Nelson Mandela was locked up for decades before the world came to his aid— Aung San Suu Kyi shouldn't have to wait that long."
The US statement said: "As of October 24, 2008, Aung San Suu Kyi has spent a total of 13 years under house arrest. We again call upon the Burmese regime to immediately and unconditionally release her and the more than 2,000 political prisoners it holds."
Observing that October 24 also marks the anniversary of the coming into force of the United Nations charter, the statement said: "We renew our support for the UN efforts, under the leadership of Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, to obtain the release of Burma's political prisoners and encourage Burma to move toward democracy."
"We further join the United Nations and the rest of the international community in calling upon the regime to engage credibly in an inclusive, time-bound dialogue with Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratic and ethnic minority leaders to bring about a genuine democratic transition."
Meanwhile, the European Parliament called on Asian and European leaders at a meeting in Beijing on Friday and Saturday to launch a joint appeal to the Burmese military government for the release of all political prisoners.
European MPs, meeting in Strasbourg, condemned the continued detention of Suu Kyi and called for her immediate release. The parliament also denounced "the arbitrary charges behind the arrests of many dissidents and the harsh conditions of detention of political prisoners, including widespread use of torture and hard labor."
အီးယူ၊ အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ေတာင္းဆို
ဧရာ၀တီ | ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၀၈
ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနရသည့္ကာလမွာ သက္တမ္း ၁၃ ႏွစ္ ျပည့္ေျမာက္ၿပီျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ၎အားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ေပးရန္ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဌာနက စစ္အစိုးရကို ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္သည္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားႏွစ္ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ကို ႁခြင္း ခ်က္မရွိ အျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ေပးရန္ ထပ္မံ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္ဟု ယမန္ေန႔ကထုတ္ ျပန္သည့္ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ဥေရာပပါလီမန္ကလည္း တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရွိ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေဘဂ်င္း၌ ယေန႔ႏွင့္ မနက္ျဖန္ ၂ ရက္ က်င္းပမည့္ ဥရာပ အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား အစည္းေ၀း ပြဲတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ ေရးကို ေတာင္းဆိုမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
စစ္အစိုးရက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား ၁၉၈၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္လ၊ ၂၀၀၀ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလႏွင့္ ၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလတို႔ တြင္ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ ၃ ႀကိမ္ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့သည္။
ယခုလ ၉ ရက္ေန႔က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္က်ခံေနရျခင္းႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ အယူခံ တင္ခဲ့သည္ဟု ၎၏အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ေရွ႕ေန ဦးၾကည္၀င္းက ဧရာ၀တီကို ေျပာဆိုသည္။
အယူခံလႊာႏွင့္စပ္လွ်င္း၍ ေရွ႕ေန ဦးၾကည္ဝင္းအား စစ္အစိုးရက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ၅ ႀကိမ္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ျပဳခဲ့ၿပီး ေနာက္တႀကိမ္ေတြ႔ခြင့္ထပ္ရရန္ ေရွ႕ေန ဦးၾကည္၀င္းက ေတာင္းဆိုထားေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ကမာၻတ၀န္းရွိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ေထာက္ခံသူမ်ားက အစည္းေ၀းပြဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ားကို ယေန႔ျပဳလုပ္ၾကမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။
အေမရိကန္အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ့အေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ (USCB) ကလည္း စစ္အစိုးရကို ေထာက္ခံအားေပးေနသည့္ တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရအား ႐ႈတ္ခ်သည့္အေနႏွင့္ ၀ါရွင္တန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ရွိ တ႐ုတ္သံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ ယေန႔ ကန္႔ကြက္ဆႏၵျပမည္ဟု လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔ကတည္းက ေၾကညာထားသည္။
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