| By LALIT K JHA | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
NEW YORK — A White House spokesperson on Monday said that the international community and the United Nations should not remain silent to oppressive, anti-democratic measures of the Burmese junta.
Burma's military government has sentenced at least 86 activists since November 7, including monks and women, in special courts held in Insein Prison in Rangoon. The sentences have ranged from two to 65 years in prison.
"Brave Burmese patriots such as Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, and Htay Kywe were among those who have been sentenced to 65 years imprisonment for their peaceful participation in the August 2007 protests, in which Burmese citizens, including monks and activists, called on the regime to address the basic needs of the Burmese people," said White House spokesperson Dana Perino in the statement.
"The international community and the United Nations Security Council must not remain silent as the regime demonstrates yet again its contempt for universal freedoms and its disdain for the international community's calls to release all political prisoners.
"We further deplore the complete lack of due process, as these men and women have been arrested, detained, charged and tried behind closed doors without the benefit of counsel," the statement said. "The United States strongly condemns the regime's persistent repression of its people for exercising basic freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
So far, there has been no word from the UN Security Council or the General Assembly on the latest act of the military junta to quell the pro-democracy movement in Burma by sentencing pro-democracy activists to harsh prison terms, in an effort to quell the opposition movement.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, personally issued a statement condemning the harsh sentences handed to several dozen activists in the past few weeks.
A spokesperson said the secretary-general would continue to pursue his good offices role with the objective of restoration of democracy and protection of human rights in Burma.
| မတရားဖိႏွိပ္တဲ့ စစ္အစိုးရကို အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္ အျပင္းအထန္႐ႈတ္ခ် | |
| 18 November 2008 |
အခုရက္ပုိင္းအတြင္း ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊဟာ တရား
ဥပေဒနဲ႔ ညီၫြတ္ျခင္းမရွိတဲ့ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ေတြနဲ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရး တက္ႂကြ
လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြကုိ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ႏွစ္ရွည္ေတြ အျပစ္ေပးေနတဲ့အေၾကာင္း
ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္တနလၤာေန႔ ညေနပုိင္းက အေမရိကန္သမၼတ အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္က
ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ပါတယ္။
ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလ ၇ ရက္ေန႔ကတည္းက စတင္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မႈေတြဟာ အခုဆုိရင္
စုစုေပါင္း ၈၆ ေယာက္ရွိသြားၿပီလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။
ဖမ္းဆီးခံခဲ့ၾကရတဲ့ ျမန္မာမ်ဳိးခ်စ္သူရဲေကာင္းေတြျဖစ္ၾကတဲ့ ကုိမင္းကုိႏုိင္၊
ကုိကုိႀကီးနဲ႔ကုိေဌးႂကြယ္တုိ႔လည္း ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၆၅ ႏွစ္ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္ခံရတဲ့
အထဲမွာ ပါ၀င္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထဲမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
သူတုိ႔ေတြဟာ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လအတြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ခ်ီတက္ဆႏၵျပခဲ့
ၾကသူေတြ၊ လူထုရဲ႕အေျခခံလုိအပ္ခ်က္ေတြကုိ စစ္အစုိးရအေနနဲ႔ ေျဖရွင္းေပးဖုိ႔
ေတာင္းဆုိ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသူေတြျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။
လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေၾကညာစာတမ္းမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြနဲ႔အညီ
ျပည္သူလူထုအေနနဲ႔ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ အေျခခံအခြင့္အေရးေတြကုိ အခုလုိ ေတာင္းဆုိ
ဆႏၵျပတဲ့အေပၚစစ္အစုိးရက ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ အျပစ္ေပး အေရးယူခဲ့တဲ့အေပၚ
အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုအေနနဲ႔ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ ကန္႔ကြက္႐ႈတ္ခ်ေၾကာင္းလည္း
ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
သူတုိ႔ကုိ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းၿပီး တရားဥပေဒနဲ႔အညီ ႐ုံးတင္စစ္ေဆးျခင္း မရွိသလုိသူတုိ႔ကုိ ေရွ႕ေနအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ေတြ လုိက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ခြင့္ မျပဳခဲ့တဲ့အေပၚမွာလည္း
အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုအေနနဲ႔ စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္မိတယ္လုိ႔ သမၼတအိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္က
ထုတ္ျပန္တဲ့ ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
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