Free Myanmar - Burma - Birmania libera

E oggi, venerdì 28 settembre 2007, indossiamo tutti una maglietta rossa per Myanmar (o Birmania o Burma che vogliate dire). E non state ad ascoltare chi dice che non serve a nulla: serve, serve. Se vi interessa approfondire la situazione, ecco alcuni siti internet proposti da Alessandro Gilioli (che rivela come nessun giornalista italiano sia sul posto).

AGGIORNAMENTO DEL 29 SETTEMBRE ALLE 0.30. Il 28 settembre è passato, ma questo post continua a restare in alto. Spero di non dover spiegare il perché.

Help the People of Burma (Birmania) — Post this Meme on Your Blog!

Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.

This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.

By passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this something we bloggers can do to help.

How to participate:

1. Copy this entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234

2. After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition. Note: Google indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show up in the results.

THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US

There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking. I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.

The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule. While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.

This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades. It’s an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.

The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue — and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.

Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community. As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.

In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else. If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.

Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.

Comments

[Yubi]

fatto e ... continuerò ancora un po' a farlo ... più per me: per non dimenticare nel trantran della quotidianità

[DAG (blog Rosso per la Birmania)]

In Birmania è stato spento internet: non c’è più connettività sono tagliati fuori dalla rete !
I più smanettoni, soprattutto gli universitari, riuscivano a pubblicare fino a poco tempo fa foto che documentassero gli avvenimenti.
Esprimi la tua solidarietà al popolo Birmano, tingi di rosso il tuo blog.
Se non puoi farlo, nel mio blog ho messo a disposizione uno script che inserisce una coccarda in alto a destra.

PS: Da solo non posto commentare in tutti i blog del mondo ! Spergete la voce (non c'è bisogno che menzioniate me, non mi serve: fate circolare lo script)

[Free Burma!]

Free Burma!
International Bloggers' Day for Burma on the 4th of October

International bloggers are preparing an action to support the peaceful revolution in Burma. We want to set a sign for freedom and show our sympathy for these people who are fighting their cruel regime without weapons. These Bloggers are planning to refrain from posting to their blogs on October 4 and just put up one Banner then, underlined with the words „Free Burma!“.

www.free-burma.org