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 OPEN LETTER, by Jane Birkin (In French)
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TEXT BY JANE PUBLISHED IN NEWSPAPER "L'HUMANITÉ" (In French)
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MAE TAO CLINIC FOUNDED BY DR CYNTHIA MAUNG
 The benefits of Jane Birkin's New York concert was donated to this organization. In collaboration with the association Info-Birmanie Jane visited the Thai-Burma border.
The Mae Tao Clinic (MTC), founded and directed by Dr. Cynthia Maung, provides free health care for refugees, migrant workers, and other individuals who cross the border from Burma to Thailand. People of all ethnicities and religions are welcome at the Clinic. Its origins go back to the student pro-democracy movement in Burma in 1988 and the brutal repression by the Burmese regime of that movement. The fleeing students who needed medical attention were attended in a small house in Mae Sot.
Since 1989 MTC has grown, from that one small house to a large complex of simple buildings that provide a wide variety of health services to different groups of people. Today it serves [...]
 www.maetaoclinic.org
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SILENT GATHERING TO SUPPORT AUNG SAN SUU KYI
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JANE'S SONG "AUNG SAN SU KYI"
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AUNG SAN SUU KYI ARRESTED!
The Burma Campaign UK - 14 May 2009
This morning Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested by the regime and moved to Burma’s notorious Insein prison. It appears she will face trial for breaking the terms of her house arrest which forbids visitors, after an American man, John Yettaw, swam across Inya Lake and refused to leave her house.
Aung San Suu Kyi has committed no crime, she is the victim of a crime. There was an intruder in her house who refused to leave, yet she is the one being imprisoned.
 Help Aung San Suu Kyi - Take Action Now!
The United Nations and ASEAN must dispatch envoys to Burma to demand the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all Burma’s political prisoners. Please go to this page where you can email the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon and ASEAN leaders to urge them to send envoys immediately. As you know Burma’s generals will use any excuse to keep Aung San Suu Kyi detained. If strong action isn’t taken, Aung San Suu Kyi could face the rest of her life in jail.
Reputation of UN And ASEAN is at stake
It is not acceptable that the UN and ASEAN only speak out – they must take action. In the past their expressions of concern and statements have been ignored and defied by the Burmese regime. Words alone are not enough. The UN and ASEAN must immediately take real action and send high level envoys to Burma to ensure that Suu Kyi does not spend the rest of her life in jail.
Her detention is illegal under Burnese and International law
Today Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 13 years and 202 days in detention. The United Nations has ruled that Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention is illegal under international law, and also under Burmese law. The United Nations Security Council has also told the dictatorship that they must release Aung San Suu Kyi.
If you have already signed the petition
please tell you friends, family and colleagues
to sign it NOW!
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AUNG SAN SUU KYI IS REPORTED TO BE SUFFERING FROM DEHYDRATION, LOW BLOOD PRESSURE...
The Burma Campaign UK - 11 May 2009
Her doctor has been arrested medical attention denied
 Aung San Suu Kyi is reported to be suffering from dehydration and low blood pressure, and having difficulty eating. Her doctor was arrested on Thursday without explanation. Another doctor was allowed to visit her on Friday, and reportedly put her on an IV drip. He was not allowed to visit her on Saturday. It is not clear what is wrong with Aung San Suu Kyi, or what treatment she is being allowed to receive.
Since Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in 2003, the dictatorship has repeatedly stopped her having proper medical access. The United Nations negotiated an agreement that her doctor be allowed to visit her once a month, which is less than the doctor said was necessary.
13 years, 199 days under arrest
Today Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent a total of 13 years and 199 days in detention since she was first placed under house arrest in 1989. The United Nations has ruled that Aung San Suu Kyi's detention is illegal under international law, and also under Burmese law. The United Nations Security Council has also told the dictatorship that they must release Aung San Suu Kyi.
The regime's policy of denying medical treatment
The denial of medical treatment is systematically used against Burma's 2,156 political prisoners. The regime deliberately leaves democracy activists to die in squalid conditions in Burma's prisons.
Nearly 300,000 people have now signed the global petition calling the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon make the release of Burma's political prisoners his top priority.
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION NOW AND HELP FREE BURMA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS: www.burmacampaign.org.uk
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TAKE ACTION TO FREE BURMA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS
Take 2 minutes now and email UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon and the UN Security Council and urge him to make it his TOP PRIORITY to secure the release of all Burma's political prisoners.
Click on the link below to take action:
www.burmacampaign.org.uk (English)
 AN UPDATE FROM INSIDE BURMA:
This week Burma's imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed out of her house arrest for a few short minutes to meet with the UN Envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, and the Central Executive Committee of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). Aung San Suu Kyi called on the UN to prioritise the release of all 2,100 political prisoners in Burma. She once more bravely stated that she is willing to talk to the Burmese regime at any time, but the regime is refusing to come to the negotiating table.
Aung San Suu Kyi is only kept safe because of her high international profile. You, as one of her supporters are helping to keep her safe.
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BURMA DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS JAILED FOR 65 YEARS
 11 November 2008.
Today the regime sentenced 14 leading democracy activists in Burma to 65 years in prison. If they are forced to serve their full terms, they will die in jail. The sentences were handed down at around 1pm, behind closed doors in Insein prison special court in Rangoon. Family members were not allowed to attend the hearing. The sentences today relate to only five charges. They are all charged with a total of 21 charges and face further sentences as their trials continue. [...]
The UN must act. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is due to visit Burma in December, but there are fears he may back out of the visit because of the difficulties in negotiating with the regime. These sentences make it all the more important that Ban Ki-moon goes ahead with his visit. We have had 37 visits to Burma by UN envoys, but things have only got worse. We need his personal engagement on Burma.
Take action. Please send an email to the UN Security Council urging Ban Ki-moon to visit Burma and make the release of political prisoners his top priority: www.burmacampaign.org.uk
source text & photo: www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P404
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ASSK REMAINS UNDER HOUSE ARREST FOR ANOTHER YEAR
Sign the petition:
Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Boycott of Total Oil
Further info:
Info Birmanie (in French)
Fidh
Aung San Suu Kyi's page
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) strongly condemned the decision of the Burmese military junta to extend the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and leader of the Burmese opposition. FIDH called the Burmese authorities to put an end to the harsh repression of political opponents and to immediately release all political prisoners. (Read more)
Photo: Demonstration for Burmese people (Paris, 3 October 2007) & Video: www.fidh.org
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