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Holiday Appeal: Will you make a Special Holiday Donation for Burma?

 Celebrate the spirit, tenacity and courage of the Burmese people by making a Special       Holiday Donation to U.S. Campaign for Burma

As the year comes to an end, I would like to thank you for your dedication to the U.S. Campaign for Burma. Without our grassroots members, our efforts to support the non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma, under the leadership of the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, would not be possible.

Over the past year, your calls to Congress resulted in record backing for the renewal of comprehensive sanctions on Burma's military regime. Your volunteer hours with USCB at dozens of U2 concerts across the country brought 10,000 new supporters into our movement. And your contributions have allowed us to continue to keep the American public and policy makers focused on Burma, with USCB cited in more than 5,000 media articles, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN.
2010 will be the most critical year for Burma in twenty years. With a showcase election on the horizon, broken ceasefire agreements between the regime and ethnic resistance groups, and a new U.S. policy towards Burma, we need your support now more than ever.
I appeal to you to make a tax-deductible gift to U.S. Campaign for Burma.
With your contributions, we will continue our plans to push for the United Nations to set up a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity in Burma, the release of over 2,100 political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi, and realizing of a meaningful and time-bound dialogue among political forces inside Burma toward national reconciliation.
This holiday season, we will be sharing video messages from Burma's celebrity supporters on our webpage: www.uscampaignforburma.org. And we will continue to keep you updated on our advocacy efforts as the year wraps up. 2010 will change Burma forever; we are asking your support to make sure these are positive developments.
We are truly grateful for your commitment to USCB and the struggle for freedom, justice and democracy by the people of Burma.
Best Wishes,

Aung Din
Executive Director
U.S. Campaign for Burma
aungdin@uscampaignforburma.org
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Dead lady in Belantek campMonday, December 7, 2009 5:36 AM

Good day Angeline ,

I have the story about 1 lady die in the Belantek camp. My last visit to camp on 22-09-2009 . I took some picture.Ma Ni Ni Aye ( body no. 4475 ) told the story about Ma Nyein Yin who die at the camp. Ma Nyein Yin is illegal immigrant and caught by police on March 2009.She have been stay in prison for 2 months . Then authority send her to Belantek camp on May 2009.She did interview with UNHCR on end of June 2009 . She fail . Because she can not sign on any document.On that time 6 lady free . 2 have been registered before and 4 new lady . NON of Myanmar and Buddhism . All are Muslim .Many lady interview including 4 pregnant lady . 1 can't able to walk lady . All fail . Because they all are Myanmar and Buddhism . Interpreter question them Nationality / Religion / Where do you live / Why you are here ..... Main question .If answer Myanmar / Buddhism / any town / illegally come to Malaysia ..... So sorry ...... Wrong answer ..... All Fail ......If Muslim or Chin , interpreter will question them and they are helping to answer . Q & A will carry by them . Very fast . Funny interview.Ma Ni Ni Aye advise to believe by whom it may concern , should question anybody in camp who have UNHCR interview experiences .Ma Nyein Yin is very angry to UNHCR . She is not feeling well during interview . She hate interpreter . During she waiting for next UNHCR visit , she is dead.She did operation her stomach on December 2008 at Alor Setar GH .She pain stomach on 20-07-2009 at night and she have no chance to get medical. Officer in camp send her to hospital on 21-07-2009 lunch time . Next day morning 22-07-2009 @ 7 am she is dead. News was covered .UNHCR is helping many people .. She is misunderstanding because of interpreter . Ma Ni Ni Aye , who told the story will go back to Myanmar on 24-09-2009.Military junta accept her to return . She will go back with fear . Military junta accept Myanmar from camps to return home . The project start from 01-08-2009. First group go back to Myanmar on 04-09-2009. 49 persons from JURU camp . Procedure as ,( 1 ) The person who wish to go back have to fill the form completely .

( 2 ) Wait for approval from Junta . Take about 1 month to process .

( 3 ) The person who approved by junta , pay 550 Ringgit for airfare and CI ( Certificate if ID ). All included .

( 4 ) Fixed the flight date . Depart from KLIA . Air line are MAI and SUNBUMI .

Ma Ni Ni Aye said THANKS to UNHCR . She will be free on 24-09-2009.She is looking for fair interview . If UNHCR really want to help effectively , should review about interpreter .

Best regard
Kasper
[8888peoplepowergroup] မွတဆင့္ျဖန္႔ေ၀ပါသည္၊

Car maker calls for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

Photo/Lancia

Car maker calls for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

The Independent [Sunday, December 06, 2009 12:43]

A major car manufacturer has aired a hard-hitting advert in the United States calling for the release of Burmese pro-democracy figure Aung San Suu Kyi, opening a new front in the battle to improve the industry's battered social image among the public.

The Chrysler advert, aired Thursday on several national TV networks, is a bold move from an industry struggling to regain widespread public support after a difficult year of bankruptcies and bailouts. Suu Kyi is the democratically elected leader of Burma but has been held under house arrest by the Burmese military junta for almost 14 of the past 20 years.

"We produced the TV film in honor of all those who put their lives at stake in the hopes of making the world a better place," said Chrysler's president Oliver Francois. "For Chrysler, this is a chance to use our brand image to join with others in the fight for peace."

The movie features four former Nobel laureates stepping out of black Chrysler 300 vehicles at the recent summit of Nobel laureates in Berlin. The final vehicle, a white Chrysler, is empty, symbolizing the absence of Aung San Suu Kyi. Whilst the advert was originally aired in Europe by Chrysler's sister firm Lancia, this is the first time it has been shown in the United States. It also features Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish President Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela.
Car manufacturers face an uphill struggle to regain the trust of the public following multimillion dollar bailouts from several governments earlier this year, without appearing cynical. In 2008, Lancia produced a car advert in which Richard Gere drove into Tibet, leaving his handprints in the snow. Despite declaring that the advert did "not promote technical values but human values," Lancia's parent company Fiat later apologized to China when the images appeared in the Chinese press.
Not one auto firm appeared in the Q3 2009 top ten brands published by Covalence, a Swiss firm that that tracks the ethical reputation of multinationals. The first major car brand to be ranked is BMW, appearing at number 25.
"Over the last years automobile manufacturers have communicated a lot about their initiatives to make greener cars," said Antoine Mach, co-founder and director of Covalence. "But they are weaker on the social front. Chrysler's recent announcement reflects a need to improve image in terms of social performance and human rights."
                               8888peoplepowergroupမွကူးယူေဖာ္ျပပါသည္။

ဟံသာဝတီဝက္ဆိုက္မွ

လၾကတ္မႈႏႇင့္ေနၾကတ္မႈ ျဖစ္စဥ္ကုိ ႏုိင္ငံျခားခရီးသည္ မ်ား ၾကည့္႐ႈ ႏုိင္ရန္မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ရႇိဟိုတယ္ႀကီးမ်ား၊ ခရီး သြား ေအဂ်င္စီမ်ား ႀကိဳတင္ စီစဥ္ လာၾက

၂၀၀၉ ခုႏႇစ္ ႏႇစ္ကုန္ ႏႇင့္ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏႇစ္ဆန္း ပိုင္းတြင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ အလယ္ပုိင္းမႇ ထင္ရႇားစြာ ေတြ႕ရႇိ ရမည့္ လၾကတ္မႈ ႏႇင့္ ေနၾကတ္မႈ ျဖစ္စဥ္ကုိ ႏုိင္ငံျခား ခရီးသည္မ်ား ၾကည့္႐ႇဳ ၾကရန္ အတြက္ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ ရႇိ ဟိုတယ္ႀကီးမ်ား၊ ခရီးသြားေအဂ်င္စီမ်ားမႇ ႀကိဳတင္စီစဥ္လာၾကေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕မႇ မႏၲေလးေဟးလ္ရီေဆာ့ဟိုတယ္၊ ဆီဒုိးနားဟိုတယ္၊ မႏၲေလးဆြမ္းဟိုတယ္စသည့္ ဟုိတယ္ႀကီးမ်ားတြင္ အခန္းမ်ားႀကိဳတင္ငႇားရမ္းမႈ ပိုမုိမ်ားျပားသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

''၂၀၀၉ ခုႏႇစ္ ႏႇစ္ကုန္ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၁ ရက္ သန္းေခါင္ေက်ာ္ ၂၀၁၀ အကူး ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁ ရက္ ၁၂ နာရီ ၅၅ မိနစ္မႇာ လရဲ႕အစိတ္အပိုင္း စၾကတ္မယ္။ ၁ နာရီ ၂၃ မိနစ္ဆုိရင္ အျပည့္အ၀ ၾကတ္မယ္။ လၾကတ္မႈကို အပီအျပင္ျမင္ရမယ့္ေနရာမႇာ ျမန္မာျပည္ပါမယ္။ ေနၾကတ္တာကေတာ့ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏႇစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႕ မြန္းတည့္ ၁၂ နာရီ မိနစ္ ၂၀ ေလာက္က စျမင္ရမယ္။ ၁၂ နာရီ ၃၄ မိနစ္ဆုိရင္ ေနအျပည့္ၾကတ္မယ္။ ညေန ၄ နာရီ ၃၆ မိနစ္မႇာ ၿပီးဆံုးမႇာပါ။ ၂၁ ရာစုအတြင္း အၾကာဆံုး ေနၾကတ္မႈပါ။

မႏၲေလးက ထင္ထင္ရႇားရႇားျမင္ရမႇာပါ''ဟု မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ခံ နကၡတၲေဗဒေလ့လာသူတစ္ဦးက ဆိုသည္။

လၾကတ္မႈႏႇင့္ေနၾကတ္မႈျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားကို မႏၲေလးႏႇင့္အနီးကပ္ဆံုး သဘာ၀ေမွ်ာ္စင္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ မႏၲေလးေတာင္၊ ရန္ကင္းေတာင္ႏႇင့္ စစ္ကိုင္းေတာင္မ်ားမႇလည္း ၾကည့္႐ႈၾကရန္ စိတ္အားထက္သန္လွ်က္ ရိႇၾကေၾကာင္း သိရႇိရသည္။

evenement "We are Burma" 12 december, Brussel

We Are Burma

Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009 Time: 20:00 – 23:00

                           Location: Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels , Belgium
With: Aung Htun, Steve Gumaer, Karel De Gucht, Bart Staes, Rudy de Leeuw, Moe Bu, Willy Claes, Robin Ramaekers, Marie Arena, Hautekiet & De Leeuw, Sioen, Pieter-Jan De Smet, Flip Kowlier, Tom Pintens, Dieudonné Kabongo, Patrick Ouchène, Maria Tarantino, Anna Luyten…
We are Burma is an event that will bring together thinkers, politicians, artists, media and social entrepreneurs to encourage individuals in their own small way to take responsibility for the situation in Burma. The dual purpose of the evening is to bring attention to the Burma situation among European circles and to highlight the work being done in the field by small and medium NGO’s who risk their lives delivering cross border aid, relief, health services and educational programs inside Burma. Our special focus will be those projects, which are engaged in delivering education services to these knowledge-starved populations. The event will showcase popular local performers and keynote addresses from Burma experts and will also premiere several short videos. This combination of entertainment and of learning more about the situation in Burma will culminate in an invitation to get involved and help. We will also be highlighting the upcoming elections in 2010 and encouraging European politicians to get involved actively so as to elevate this process.
The event is a joint effort of :

The Royal Flemish Theatre, Union Suspecte, Blood Foundation, Cirq and Euro-Burma Office.

၉၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္(လူထုအေမ)လူထုေဒၚအမာေမြးေန႔

 ဖတ္ျပန္ေသာ္ကား၊ဖန္ဖန္မ်ားေသာ္

သားမယားပင္၊မလိမၼာလည္း

စာေပစကား၊ေန႔တိုင္းၾကားက

ထူးျခားလိမၼာရွိသည္သာတည္း။

ရွင္မဟာရဌသာရ ရဲ႕

စာသားအႏွစ္ေတြ ဝတ္ဆင္ထားတဲ့

သတို႔သမီးႀကီးဟာ ့ ့ ့

ျပည္သူထဲက ေမြးဖြားလာသူမို႔

ျပည္သူနဲ႔တသားတည္း

အက်ဳိးေပးခ်င္းလည္းတူခဲ့တယ္။

သူမဟာ ့ ့ ့

ရာဇဝင္ထဲက

သတိုးသမီးႀကီးေတာ့မဟုတ္ခဲ့ဘူး

သမိုင္းရဲ႕ အရိုးစုေတြ

ထိုးထိုးေထာင္ေထာင္ထေနတဲ့

ျမစ္ငယ္ ့ ့ ့

ပလိပ္ ့ ့ ့

အင္းဝ ့ ့ ့

ေခါင္းေထာင္ၿပီး

ရာသီအလိုက္ စီးဆင္းေနတဲ့

ျမစ္ငယ္တစင္းနဲ႔ မလွမ္းမကမ္း

အမရပူရ

စစ္ကိုင္း

တေခၚစာ

ဧရာဝတီျမစ္ႀကီးရဲ႕

မိတ္ေဆြရင္းခ်ာ

မႏၱေလးၿမဳိ႕ႀကီးမွာ
လူတစုမ်က္မုန္းက်ဳိးေနတဲ့
စာေပသူရဲေကာင္း လူထုအေမ

အသက္ထင္ရွားရွိေနေလရဲ႕။

အဲဒါ ့ ့ ့

သားမ်ားအေမ

ကာလသုံးပါးထဲက

ၿမဳိ႕ျပေစ်းကြက္ ေရာင္းသူ ဝယ္သူ

ေက်းလက္ကထန္းတက္သူ

လယ္လုပ္သူ ့ ့ ့

နိစၥဓူဝပုံရိပ္မ်ားနဲ႔

ရုပ္ေသးေခတ္က အစ

ဇာတ္သဘင္စတဲ့ေခတ္

ရသစုံစာစကားနဲ႔

ပီျပင္စြာရုပ္လုံးၾကြေအာင္ထုဆစ္

ျပည္တြင္းျဖစ္စစ္စစ္ေတြဟာ

သူမရဲ႕လက္ျဖစ္ေတြေပါ႔။

အဲဒါ ့ ့ ့

သမီးမ်ား အေမ

ဇရာေထာင္းေပမယ့္

ကေလာင္ေစာင္းထက္ထက္နဲ႔

မာရသြန္ခရီးရွည္ႀကီးထဲ

ခ်ီတက္ေနဆဲေပါ႔

ေရႊအျမဴေတရုပ္စုံမဂၢဇင္းမွာ

က်ြန္မေရးတဲ့သူ႕ဘဝ

လူထုဦးလွ ့ ့ ့(လူထုေဒၚအမာ)

ေလာကဓံ လႈိင္းဂယက္ေတြထဲမွာ

သူတို႔ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေခတ္ႀကီး

စာသားေတြနဲ႔စကားေျပာေနေလရဲ႕။

အဲဒါ ့ ့ ့

တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕အေမ

တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ လတစင္း

ျပည္ႀကီးရဲ႕ အဘိဓာန္က်မ္း

ျပည္ႀကီးရဲ႕ သမီးရတနာ။

လူထုေဒၚအမာ

နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၉ ရက္မွာေပါ႔

သက္ရင္းနဲ႔ သက္ငယ္

ေႏွာင္းျဖစ္ေတြကို လက္ရည္တျပင္တည္း

မ်ွေဝခံစားၾကရင္း ့ ့ ့

ႏွင္းမိုးၿဖဳိင္ၿဖဳိင္ရြာတဲ့ပြဲ

ႏႊဲေနၾကၿမဲ ။ ။

(နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၉ -၂၀၀၆ခုႏွစ္ကေရးဖြဲ႕ခဲပါသည္။)