Oppress The People And Have Nuclear Dreams

No.16 - 7/2007
30 July 2007
Human Rights

In Kachin State in early July, SPDC´s commander in the state Maj-General Ohn Myint. Was holding a speech at a special city hall meeting in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. In his speech to the audience he said "SPDC shall kick KIO ( Kachin Independence Organization ) up to the mountains, if they persist in their demand for an autonomous Kachin State"! 
 
Maj - General Ohn Myint also told residents of Dum Bang village in Hukawng valley. "We must fight the Kachins and destroy them and their community "!
 
According to local sources, in 2006 Maj-Gen Ohn Myint tried to confisciate KBC´s ( Kachin Baptist Church ) Kachin Theological College compound and the Jaw Bum compound in Nawng Nang village 10 miles north of Myitkyina.
The Maj-General also ordered the village administrators to remove all Christian crosses away from the villages entrances. 
 
In early February 2007, 4 schoolgirls from Dukang Village, aged between 14 and 16 years, were gang-raped by 3 Burmese officers and 4 soldiers!
 
The brutal Human Rights violation, happened at the base of Infantry Battalion 138 at Munglang Shidi Village, IB 138 is led by Lt-Col Soe Win.
 
After the 4 poor young girls were gang-raped, SPDC authorities sent those girls to the jail ! The victims were released from jail in Putato only by April.
 
The 3 rapist SPDC officers are Major Zaw Min Thet,Capt. Win Myint Oo
and Capt. Kyaw Ze Ya.
 
SPDC officers always claim that they are practicing Buddhism.
Buddhism is a very peaceful religion, but the Burma Army officers never behave in a peaceful manner.
 
Meanwhile, in Hpa Kant Township at Hawng Pa village, a Russian - Burma
joint venture company the Victorious Glory International Ltd, has been drilling for Uranium since the start of February 2007, the place for this exploration of Uranium is in a Jade mine, about 80 miles west of Myitkyina.
 
According to Dictator Watch, SPDC is mining and refining Uranium and then bartering the final product the "yellowcake", to North Korea and reportedly to Iran ,in return for missiles and technical assistance for its own Nuclear weapons program.
 
In May 2007 Russia´s Atomic Energy Agency and SPDC signed an agreement
to build a 10 megawatt Nuclear reactor in Burma.
 
Recently North Korea has been forced by US to shut down their nuclear reactors.  
Will the world community let SPDC build nuclear reactor and develop a nuclear program?
 
On Dictatorwatch website . www.dictatorwatch.org interested people can find
updated information on SPDC´s Nuclear ambitions.
 
In April 2007 the SPDC-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association attacked 6 members of the HRDP (Human Rights Defenders And Promoters).
 
The Human rights activists were injured, after the attack all of them were arrested! The location for this brutal Human Rights Violations was in Irrawaddy division.
 
On 24 July 2007 the human rights activists were sentenced to between 4 - 8 years in prison by a court in Henzada township. The brave activists were charged under sections 505 - b and - c, for inciting public unrest.
 
Again the military dictatorship regime has sent honest and democratic people in to prison. What a nightmarish system for so called justice there is in Burma.
 
I can see 3 reasons for the international community to take actions strong enough against the military dictatorship regime in Burma.
 
* The gross Human Rights Violations.
* The large scale production and trafficking of Drugs
* SPDC´s Nuclear program and the WMD´s (Weapons for Mass Destruction) ambitions.
 
It is high time for the world community to support the people of Burma!

_{Opinions expressed here are the author's - Editor}

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