David Warren

Burma

The British Government is supporting a new website launched by a coalition of campaign groups to put pressure on the Burmese regime to release Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner, who has spent 13 of the past 19 years in detention.  She was supposed to be released this week from house arrest - instead she has been put on trial in Rangoon for violating the terms of her imprisonment and faces another 5 years in prison.    The website invites everyone - politicians, celebrities, ordinary people - to post a short message of support for her.   I've done this.  I hope as many people reading this blog will do so too.   Her continued arrest and imprisonment is a fundamental abuse of human rights and we must all do what we can to secure her release.

Posted at 11:53 01 June 2009 by David Warren  |  Comments[1]