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| Sanctions to Continue in Burma Says EU |
| Monday, May 11, 2009 |
By Carlos(Buffalohair)Guevara
Favoring Humanity over Economics the *European Union announced they will continue sanctions imposed in the military junta of Burma. To the chagrin of Generalissimo Than Shwe and his criminal regime there will be no reward for the arrest and wholesale murder of innocent people. In a statement the EU said;
"The (EU) Council deems it necessary to extend the current EU Common position for another year, including the restrictive measures,"
The EU also rendered the option to increase or relax restrictive measures dependant on actions taken by the regime to rectify its posture on human rights. Restrictions target 1,207 firms, frozen assets and forbids the issuance of visas to Than Shwe and his band of thugs.
Clearly Than Shwe’s bribing of United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari and lining the pockets of other diplomatic sources was a dismal failure. Granted the race to lift sanctions did identify individuals from many nations who were promoting Than Shwe’s cause and urging the world to recognize Burma as a legitimate nation. In spite of continual human rights violations and false imprisonment of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her cabinet these boneheads promoted this criminal regime. Their names should be written in the book of infamy fore they sold their honor and have disgraced their nations.
It is incomprehensible that anyone with an ounce of moral fiber would speak in Than Shwe’s defense or even consider his blood soaked regime legitimate. Truly the cause of humanity far overshadows the concerns of commerce and economics. To think otherwise is to be in concert with evil personified fore morality has no place in an environment filled with greed.
It should be remembered that Ulla Toreas of Denmark and Erik Solheim resorted to extortion of pro democracy groups to force them to vote in the illegal 2010 election. That in itself was criminal and should have had consequences fore blackmail was still a crime in the nations they represented. There were others but this gruesome twosome stands out in the herd. There were champions such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Norway’s Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen who held fast their stance on humanity.
Western nations have already determined that the Constitutional Referendum of last year was a total fraud and a sham. Hopefully they recognize the pending bogus 2010 election is equally a sham since the voice of the people was quashed in 1990 when the opposition won a landslide victory over Than Shwe and his criminal regime. As the world speaks of reconciliation, including China, this can only be made possible if the duly elected officials are included in the dialogue. All the conferences and discussions pertaining to Burma are invalid at best without Aung San Suu Kyi and her cabinet present at these meetings.
Than Shwe’s continual arrest and imprisonment of all opposition as well as his exercise in genocide makes his roadmap to democracy more like a highway to hell. It should be as plain as the nose on a person’s face that Than Shwe is a common criminal and should be treated accordingly. Knowing he is dying of cancer is a small consolation since he will undoubtedly cheat justice for his vial and reprehensible conduct over the years.
The European Union made a stand for the cause of humanity and they are undeterred but ready and willing to make amends if humanity returns to Burma. But it is Than Shwe who must foster positive change in a nation he all but destroyed.
* http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-39279420090427
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"who put family second to country, who for her convictions made an unbearable choice—not to see her sons grow and not to be with her husband as he lost his life to a long and painful cancer. Suu Kyi, with an idea too big for any jail and a spirit too strong for any army, changes our view — as only real heroes can — of what we believe to be possible."BONO
