Post by Jaga on Sept 29, 2007 18:14:03 GMT -7
I am glad that I found a news which links Poland and Burma.
Frankly when I looked at these monks in Burma, it reminded me our protests in Poland since the religious portion of the protests (Polish pope and Polish church) was very important to encourage people to protest against the communistic regime!
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Ex-Dissidents Hopeful for Myanmar
By WILLIAM J. KOLE – 8 hours ago
Lech Walesa and Desmond Tutu speak of solidarity. Vaclav Havel hopes for another "Velvet Revolution." Wei Jingsheng warns of a bloody sequel to Tiananmen Square.
Some of the globe's most prominent former dissidents — acutely aware of what can go right and wrong when a repressed society attempts to shake off tyranny — see shades of their own past struggles in Myanmar's drama.
In interviews with The Associated Press and other media, they offered insight and advice to the Buddhist monks and pro-democracy protesters who have defied Myanmar's military government — and to the world leaders and ordinary people watching it all unfold.
"If there's not enough international pressure, and China offers support in the background, then there will very likely be in Myanmar something like Tiananmen Square: a big massacre," Wei, China's best-known ex-dissident, told the AP in a phone interview from the U.S., where he lives in exile.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed in 1989 when the Chinese army cleared the Beijing square of pro-democracy protests.
Wei, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for challenging the communist monopoly on power, called for more international pressure on Myanmar's ruling junta and on China for its perceived backing of the regime.
Walesa, who founded Poland's pro-democracy Solidarity movement and became the nation's first post-communist president, said the only hope for Myanmar's monks and activists was to stick together — and for the world to rally around their cause.
"My advice for them is to build their own internal solidarity and to make efforts to win international solidarity," he said in an AP interview.
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ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikr6VrLRd-BbZheJtbTa_6SsFj2QD8RV7LQ81
Frankly when I looked at these monks in Burma, it reminded me our protests in Poland since the religious portion of the protests (Polish pope and Polish church) was very important to encourage people to protest against the communistic regime!
+++++++++++
Ex-Dissidents Hopeful for Myanmar
By WILLIAM J. KOLE – 8 hours ago
Lech Walesa and Desmond Tutu speak of solidarity. Vaclav Havel hopes for another "Velvet Revolution." Wei Jingsheng warns of a bloody sequel to Tiananmen Square.
Some of the globe's most prominent former dissidents — acutely aware of what can go right and wrong when a repressed society attempts to shake off tyranny — see shades of their own past struggles in Myanmar's drama.
In interviews with The Associated Press and other media, they offered insight and advice to the Buddhist monks and pro-democracy protesters who have defied Myanmar's military government — and to the world leaders and ordinary people watching it all unfold.
"If there's not enough international pressure, and China offers support in the background, then there will very likely be in Myanmar something like Tiananmen Square: a big massacre," Wei, China's best-known ex-dissident, told the AP in a phone interview from the U.S., where he lives in exile.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, were killed in 1989 when the Chinese army cleared the Beijing square of pro-democracy protests.
Wei, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for challenging the communist monopoly on power, called for more international pressure on Myanmar's ruling junta and on China for its perceived backing of the regime.
Walesa, who founded Poland's pro-democracy Solidarity movement and became the nation's first post-communist president, said the only hope for Myanmar's monks and activists was to stick together — and for the world to rally around their cause.
"My advice for them is to build their own internal solidarity and to make efforts to win international solidarity," he said in an AP interview.
...
from:
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikr6VrLRd-BbZheJtbTa_6SsFj2QD8RV7LQ81