KALADAN NEWS
Date:
Overseas Rohingya Celebrate Daw Suu’s
60th Birthday
A discussion meeting was
organized by the NLD members at the port city under the chairmanship of AFK Jilani, an organizer of NLD in Arakan
State and the ceremony in Paris was organized by Info-Birmanie, National Democratic Party for Human Rights,
or NDPHR (in exile) and the Burmese democrats living in France.
There were more than 50
people participated from different political backgrounds to grace the occasion.
The AFK Jilani
said in the discussion, “Previously the military junta promised her release on
different occasion, but did not release. Rather they confined over 1350 NLD
leaders to jail including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who is the daughter of
A student named Baker Ali
said, “Suu Kyi’s release is very important and it
would be towards
The member of the
participants of the ceremony also urged the world leaders to give more pressure
to release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and work for the establishment of democracy in
U Tin Soe, a leader of human
rights organization, demanded immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi,
Rohingya Youth Development Forum (RYDF) urged upon the
international community to put effective pressure on Burmese military ruler to
immediately free Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners
including U Tin Oo and U Kyaw Min (a) Master Anwar, a
Rohingya MP and a member of CRPP and to put pressure
on SPDC to stop all kinds of repression, oppression and discrimination against
ethnic minorities, especially ethnic Rohingyas.
RYDF statement also mentioned
that it is an endless misery of tyranny, not only for the Burmese people but
also for the all peace-loving people of the world. The Burmese military ruler
is negligent to the repeated calls of the international community to release
Daw Suu and bring about the democratic reforms in the country.
On the other hand, the
activists of National Democratic Party for Human Rights, or NDPHR in exile
celebrated the same day on a ship called "Alternat”
in
First of all, the Venerable
monk U Kumara recited Myittathout bawana
and five concepts of Buddhism and prayer for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Then
Christian prayer- ceremony and Islam prayer -ceremony were followed. Then the
conference began with the participation of French NGOs: FIDH, Khiasma, Info
-Birmanie, COSEFEB and NDPHR (in exile). Naturally, the French NGOs expressed
their utmost pleasure in attending the ceremony and best wishes for Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi. They explained the current stance of French Government policy
towards
In fact, little more than statements of concern follow Suu Kyi’s
detention in May 2003 after pro-government mob savagely attacked on her car
convoy
Though Rohingyas,
inside
It is an interesting that the
Bangladeshi camp officials imposed restriction on the celebration of the
birthday in Rohingya refugee camps of Kutupalong and Naypara, at Cox’s Bazar District of Bangladesh, said a refugee leader, who
preferred not to mention his name.##
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