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*APPPB Update: Burma Solidarity Actions on Int'l HR Day
"The world has started to celebrate this year’s International Human Rights Day – December 10. Yet, for the people inside Burma, to join the rest of the world to celebrate this day seems still far to realize. Democracy and human rights activists and Buddhist monks from September protests are still being searched, arrested, detained, and tortured in prisons, or still on the run and in hiding. As you will recall, Aung Zaw Oo, a member of Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, was arrested on Nov 26 in Rangoon, as he was planning for the celebration of International Human Rights Day. We have no doubt that Aung Zaw Oo, the '88 Generation Student leaders and other activists who are in detention will still try to celebrate this very special day in their own way in prisons at the very moment of their basic rights being violated and deprived.
Since September, a number of monasteries in cities like Rangoon and Mandalay have been empty. Monks from the rural countryside have been banned from entering Rangoon unless they can show recommendations at train and bus terminals for medical treatment from the hospitals or doctors, the name of the monastery where they intend to stay, and also credentials from the monks of the monastery where they want to put up. If the recommendations are incomplete, they are not allowed to enter the city and they are sent back in the bus they came. A local news group, IMNA, reported last month that about 50 Monks from Arakan State were turned back after the authorities checked their recommendations at Rangoon station.
Meanwhile, more than half a million ethnic minority population continue to live in hiding and running away from the Burma army in remote areas of Karen, Karenni and Shan States, with lack of basic needs and fear for life, and an estimated 150,000 people are living in refugee camps while another estimated two million Burmese continue to struggle for their survival as undocumented migrant workers in countries like Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia under harsh conditions with lack of security and protection. Free Burma Rangers reported that in the last three weeks, the Burma Army has killed three people and forced hundreds more into hiding in separate attacks across northeastern Karen State.
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