SIGN PETITIONS TO UN ON BURMA (Theosophy Forum)

Title: SIGN PETITIONS TO UN ON BURMA

Nicholas - October 1, 2007 03:53 PM (GMT)

http://www.petitiononline.com/kha8954b/

and

http://www.petitiononline.com:80/9848/petition.html

Nicholas - October 2, 2007 08:13 PM (GMT)

From Anton:

Maybe you will be interested in this additional information on Burma prepared by my friend:

News in Australia, Canada, UK and many other countries, have in the first page the comments of Stallone:
Sylvester Stallone has revealed he and the film crew from his Rambo sequel witnessed atrocities while filming along the Burmese border.

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"I witnessed the aftermath - survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off. We saw many elephants with blown off legs. We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia and this was more horrific," Stallone said in a telephone interview.
He returned eight days ago from shooting John Rambo, the fourth film in the action series, on the Salween River separating Thailand and Burma. He said it was "a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams".
The scenes he described occurred before the crackdown against large pro-democracy protests when soldiers responded by opening fire with automatic weapons on unarmed demonstrators.
For decades, Burma's army has waged a war against ethnic groups in which soldiers have razed villages, raped women and killed civilians.

http://entertainment.aol.co.uk/stallone-te...001160209990013

"Stallone's next challenge is trying to get an "R" rating from the MPAA.
"This is full scale genocide. I want an 'R' and I want the violence in there because it is reality. It would be a whitewashing not to show what's over there,'' he told Associated Press."I think there is a story that needs to be told," Stallone said."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22517...from=public_rss

Meanwhile in Yahoo news we find the follow:
"Soldiers responded last week by shooting at unarmed demonstrators. The government says 10 people were killed, but dissident groups say anywhere from several dozen to as many as 200 died in the crackdown. Dissident groups say up to 200 protesters were slain and 6,000 detained in the junta's crackdown, compared to the regime's report of 10 deaths..."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22517...from=public_rss

The UN expected Gambari, to solve diplomatically the problem. That is ridiculous and obvious Gambari, who waited days and days to be received by the government in Burma, would not have any possibility to have a positive result.
The petition, An appeal to the UN Security Council to protect the people of Burma urity Council to protect the people of Burma, Has until now only 27 thousand signatures.
http://new.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?9848

The second petition asking: UN must act, Call for action on Myanmar Military Government ,Now !!!! Has only 7 thousand signatures.
http://www.petitiononline.com/kha8954b/petition.html

QUOTE

The United Nations have the following agreement:
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the U.N. General Assembly on 9 December 1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.
Article III: The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
( b ) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
( c ) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Article IV: Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
Article V: The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention, and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Article VI: Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm

Unfortunately the UN can be considered the major responsible, for the continuing state of terror and chaos that exist in Burma. Is Burma eventually going to have the same end Tibet did? For as it seems China supports the dictator leader of Burma. Consequently its obvious that no military interference will happen from the UN in Burma, is obvious that the monks and the people will continually be living in a state of terror, its obvious that many more will die, their bodies left in the middle of the jungle or incinerated, that many more will be beaten to death, tortured, etc. Burma is not USA or Israel so why the authorities would take any immediate action?
The point is we as persons, who are deeply shocked with what is happening there, what can we do? To raise our voice, sign the petitions, denounce the indifference and criticize it, just do not remain silent in front of such crime.
Erica Letzerich Georgiadis

And here is another link posted by Daniel Caldwell on theos_talk:

http://tinyurl.com/2ljv2m

And here is link to an article which describes the reasons for such situation in Burma:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/772800.stm

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