Open Letter To Gordon Brown: The World Is Watching You
Dear Prime Minister
You have used strong language to express your outrage about what is happening in Burma and you have urged the world to take action in demonstrating their solidarity with both the Buddhist monks and their supporters in the general population.
You said:
The whole world is now watching Burma and its illegitimate and repressive regime should know […]
Gordon Brown On Burma: The World Is Watching
Gordon Brown has spoken about the need for the world to stand firm on Burma and the continuing repression of the Buddhist monks and ordinary people, who are seeking democracy, by the military junta regime.
What has changed since the brutal quashing of protests in Burma in 1988 is that, although the regime prohibits foreign news journalists […]
Burmese Monks Lead Largest Protest in Decades
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters, led by columns of Buddhist monks and nuns, marched on the streets of the former Burmese capital Monday, chanting pleas for national reconciliation.
An international aid agency official with employees monitoring the crowd estimated the number of protesters as approaching 100,000, with witnesses describing a one-mile stretch of an eight-lane […]