Envoy Gambari COULD NOT change anything

The human rights situation in the country has taken a dramatic downward turn since UN Envoy Gambari first visited Burma in May 2006. The changes that occurred after this visit were:

• The number of political prisoners almost doubled from 1,100 to 2,056.
• More than 130,000 people in Eastern Burma have been forced from their homes as part of ethnic cleansing campaign.
• September 2007’s peaceful pro-democracy protests were brutally suppressed, with protestors fired on and thousands of monks arrested.
• Humanitarian help was blocked following Cyclone Nargis.
• Political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, have been denied access to doctors and medical treatment.

“The current UN approach is failing, and the people of Burma are paying the price”. (5)

(5) Burma camping, “Burma’s Human Rights In Freefall Since Gambari’s Appointment”

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Story of Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi’s father helped to win Burma's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 and established the Tatmadaw, the Burmese army. Suu Kyi's co-founding of the National League for Democracy, a group immediately seen as a threat by the junta, and Suu Kyi's house arrest began in July of 1989. On 1990 when LND won the elections the government of Myanmar offered her freedom with the condition she goes away from Myanmar, but she denied and she lived 20 years in house arrest.

On 2007 an America man named John Yettaw visits Aung San Suu Kyi’s house, but Suu Kyi was subsequently arrested and tried for violating the terms of her arrest.
Suu Kyi was found guilty by a junta-controlled Myanmar court and sentenced to a further 18 months of house arrest, which she is currently serving. This action has been condemned by human rights groups worldwide, with the Human Rights Action Center, US Campaign For Burma, the US and the UN all calling for her freedom. (4)

Embedded video from CNN Video

(4)Causecast, “Aung San Suu Kyi: The story”

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Myanmar's History of Sanctions

This video was taken from CNN. IT shows what Myanmar's GDP is made of, and some other economical and historical characteristics:

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What exactly are Human Rights?

Human rights refer to the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.

Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law; and economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, the right to work, and the right to education.


“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood” (3)

Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (3)
Youtube, “The universal declaration of Human Rights”, 7/10/08

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As every country, It has landmarks

Myanmar has so many landmarks that we don't know because of their regime but you can help us to save this beautiful places:

>Click on the Gadget "Pyin Oo Lwin" under Beautiful Landmarks to see them<

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The cruel truth

What should be known about this situation is that:

• The military regime in Burma is one of the world's most repressive and abusive regimes.
• This regime was created since 1962 with the general Ne win.
• Even though in 1999 the International Committee of the Red Cross visited Myanmar’s jails, they kept with the bad medical attention to prisoners. People were dying from exhaustion.
• Council of State Peace and Development emitted 11 orders to prisoners’ treatment.
• There is not independent judiciary, so the same military government plays that roll.
• The people were killed by the army only because they weren’t useful for them.
• The Forced labor, human trafficking, child labor and sexual violence are common in the country too.
• To keep people out of knowledge, the military government of Myanmar restricts Internet access through software-based censorship that limits the material citizens can access on-line, because they don’t agree that society is informed, updated and even communicate with people from other countries, and that is the reason why we don’t know that much about their problem.

(1) Amnistía Internacional EE.UU.; visited on September 2nd, 2009.

(2) Cuestiones mundiales, "Myanmar (Antigua Birmania) y los derechos humanos"; visited on September 2nd, 2009.

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Our first thought

When we first heard about this situation in Myanmar, we instantly thought that the freedom of the people in that country is not respected, that there was physical and psychological abuse, people are afraid of their own government, children are obligated to work, there is corruption, and that freedom of expression is denied.

This issue is relatively famous. It has been in the news very often lately.It is very known in some countries because this situation is not to be ingnored. In our country this situation is not that famous, that's why we are doing this blog: To make people realize that not everybody is treated the same way than us. Then, if possible, to help the people of Myanmar in some way.

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Entry

With this blog we are trying to let the people know about the situation they ignore. Surely they know a lot about their own country, but as long as we share this world, problems in it are OUR problems too. Whatever happens in it, we should at least show some interest, because the human rights of the people in Myanmar are being violated (To remind: We all have the same rights around the world) and we can confirm that most of the population of the world don't know what's happening there.

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