Archivo etiqueta «Unión de Myanmar/Birmania»
By Ko Bo Kyi,who spent nearly eight years in prison in Burma before escaping to Thailand and co-founding the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/02/10):
News of Nelson Mandela’s release dominated the radio broadcasts by the BBC and Voice of America on Feb. 11, 1990. I felt I understood why he had resisted so long, because in Burma, as in South Africa at the time Mr. Mandela was in jail, the majority of people were struggling to make their voices heard. Within three months, the military junta would refuse to recognize the results of our national… Seguir leyendo
Par Renaud Egreteau, chercheur à l’université de Hongkong (LIBERATION, 28/09/09):
Il est des perceptions qui ont la vie dure. Comme celle que l’on a d’une Birmanie scindée en deux entités manichéennes, la junte militaire d’un côté, la leader de l’opposition démocratique et prix Nobel de la paix Aung San Suu Kyi de l’autre. L’une des erreurs de l’Occident est de penser son approche de la «question birmane» à travers ce prisme bipolaire et de concentrer ses efforts sur une transition démocratique censée à elle seule panser les plaies d’une société birmane meurtrie. Or, à trop vouloir d’abord porter le flambeau… Seguir leyendo
By U Win Tin, a member of the Central Executive Committee and a founder of Burma’s National League for Democracy party. He was a political prisoner from 1989 to 2008 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/09/09):
Much attention has been focused on Sen. James Webb’s recent visit to my country and his meetings with Senior Gen. Than Shwe and incarcerated Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi. I understand Webb’s desire to seek a meaningful dialogue with the Burmese ruling authorities. Unfortunately, his efforts have been damaging to our democracy movement and focus on the wrong issue — the potential for… Seguir leyendo
By Chris Beyrer, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Public Health and Human Rights and Richard Sollom who leads the Burma Project at Physicians for Human Rights (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/03/09):
It has been a good few weeks for Burma’s dictator, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, even though Sen. Jim Webb secured the release of an imprisoned American during his recent visit and even though the sentencing of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, after this summer’s sham trial was roundly condemned. With all the media attention, Than Shwe got a dose of what he appears to crave most:… Seguir leyendo
By Jim Webb, a Democratic senator from Virginia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/08/09):
Eight years ago I visited Myanmar as a private citizen, traveling freely in the capital city of Yangon and around the countryside. This lush, breathtakingly beautiful nation was even then showing the strain of its severance from the outside world. I was a guest of an American businessman, and I understood the frustration and disappointment that he and others felt, knowing even then that tighter sanctions would soon drive them out of the country.
This month I became the first American political leader to visit Myanmar in… Seguir leyendo
By Than Myint-U, the author of The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma (THE WASHINGTON POST, 16/08/09):
Twenty years of sanctioning and lecturing Burma’s military regime have failed. The West needs to engage with Burma’s leaders, increase humanitarian aid and reopen commercial relations with the country. If it doesn’t, not only will positive change remain as elusive as ever, but the country will turn quickly and irreparably into an economic vassal of China.
In a sign of just how impervious the regime is to Western pressure, last week, opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi… Seguir leyendo
P0r Gordon Brown, primer ministro del Reino Unido (LE MONDE, 12/08/09; EL PAÍS, 13/08/09):
El resultado atroz aunque inevitable de la parodia de juicio al que ha sido sometida Aung San Suu Kyi constituye la prueba definitiva de que el régimen militar de Birmania está dispuesto a seguir desafiando al mundo.
La desoladora noticia de que ha sido condenada a cumplir otro año y medio de arresto domiciliario no sólo es una tragedia para ella y su familia sino también para el pueblo birmano, que sufre diariamente a manos de los tiranos. Era el momento de que los generales atendieran… Seguir leyendo
Por Henry Kamen, historiador británico. Su último libro publicado es El enigma del Escorial, Espasa Calpe, 2009 (EL MUNDO, 05/08/09):
La dictadura birmana ha asestado un nuevo golpe al indigente país sobre el que lleva gobernando durante casi 50 años. El pasado viernes confirmó el encarcelamiento de la líder del movimiento por la democracia en el país: Aung San Suu Kyi. La semana pasada se escucharon los alegatos finales en el nuevo juicio que se celebra contra la líder de la oposición y Premio Nobel de la Paz, que se enfrenta a otros cinco años de detención si es condenada… Seguir leyendo
By Laura Bush, the former first lady of the United States (THE WASHINGTON POST, 28/06/09):
For two weeks, the world has been transfixed by images of Iranians taking to the streets to demand the most basic human freedoms and rights. Watching these courageous men and women, I am reminded of a similar scene nearly two years ago in Burma, when tens of thousands of Buddhist monks peacefully marched through their nation’s streets. They, too, sought to reclaim basic human dignity for all Burmese citizens, but they were beaten back by that nation’s harsh regime.
Since those brutal days in September… Seguir leyendo
By Geoffrey Nice, the principal prosecution trial attorney in the case against Slobodan Milosevic in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and Pedro Nikken, president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and is an executive committee member of the International Commission of Jurists (THE WASHINGTON POST, 02/06/09):
The trial of the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, has once again catapulted events in Burma onto the front pages of newspapers around the globe. The leader of Burma’s struggle for human rights and democracy has been charged with violating the… Seguir leyendo
By Bo Hla Tint, the foreign affairs minister for the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (THE GUARDIAN, 15/05/09):
In Burma, things just go from bad to worse. Last week, the country’s revered democracy leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was taken ill. Her doctor reported she was short of breath, had low blood pressure and was needing an IV drip. That was just before he was detained. Then there was news of an American who had swum to Suu Kyi’s house and stayed for two nights in her basement. Now Suu Kyi has… Seguir leyendo
By Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/04/09):
When President Obama was elected, I was filled with hope that America would regain the moral standing to aid those who are impoverished and oppressed around the world. I have since rejoiced to see him reversing the most obnoxious policies of the Bush administration — by ending torture, announcing the closure of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay and engaging the world on climate change, to name just a few. But there is another issue on which America’s… Seguir leyendo
By Rena Pederson, a former speechwriter at the State Department and the author of the forthcoming book The Burma Quartet (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/02/09):
Naypyidaw, Burma — This is a city constructed out of fear. Naypyidaw reportedly was created by Burma’s brutal dictators on the advice of astrologers and built in part by forced labor. Worried they might be vulnerable to attack in Rangoon, a port city, they abruptly moved the government 250 miles to the north three years ago and modestly named the new capital “Abode of Kings.”
It is from here that the generals ordered that monks peacefully… Seguir leyendo
By Fred Hiatt (THE WASHINGTON POST, 27/10/08):
Almost a year ago, a Buddhist monk on the run from authorities published an op-ed in The Post advocating democracy for his Southeast Asian nation of Burma.
“It matters little if my life or the lives of colleagues should be sacrificed on this journey,” U Gambira wrote, describing the nonviolent campaign for freedom. “Others will fill our sandals, and more will join and follow.”
As he wrote, the regime already had arrested his father and brother, holding them as hostages to flush him out. It found and arrested him on the same day… Seguir leyendo
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 02/09/08):
It is hard to imagine what life must be like for Aung San Suu Kyi, locked up inside her Rangoon home, separated from her children, denied visitors, her phone line cut, her mail intercepted. Burma’s opposition leader, whose 1990 election victory was annulled by the military, is now in her 13th year of detention. She has been held continually since 2003. In June she spent her 63rd birthday alone.
Unconfirmed reports suggest Suu Kyi, who has suffered health problems in the past, is unwell again. Her lawyer, Kyi Win, who was allowed to see… Seguir leyendo