Call to Action on Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi Detention in Myanmar In 1990, the military junta called a general election, which the National League for Democracy won decisively. Being the NLD's candidate, Aung San Suu Kyi under normal circumstances would have assumed the office of Prime Minister. Instead, the results were nullified, and the military refused to hand over power. This resulted in an international outcry. Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest. During her arrest, she was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990, and the Nobel Peace Prize the year after. Her sons Alexander and Kim accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Aung San Suu Kyi used the Nobel Peace Prize's 1.3 million USD prize money to establish a healh and education trust for the Burmese people. The military government released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in July 1995 but made it clear that if she left the country to visit her family in the United Kingdom, it would not allow her return. When her husband, Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed withprostate cancer in 1997, the Burmese government denied him an entry visa. Aung San Suu Kyi remained in Burma, and never again saw her husband, who died in March 1999. She remains separated from her children, who live in the United Kingdom.[.....] ---> click here to continue There is a genocide going on in Burma(Myanmar). http://picasaweb.google.com/burmamyanmargenocide Today, tyrant military government of Burma (Myanmar) has shot down and wounded over 100 unarmed protesters. 9 dead bodies, including a Japanese journalist, were collected and confirmed by the Burmese soliers. Many wounded fled away and believed to die in a few hours on their way home. Number of death toll is not confirmed. The murdered Japanese journalist is called Mr Kenji Nagai, APF Tsushin Media. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Burmese_anti-government_protests People of Burma were simply asking for peace. Due to torture, people were so scared to protest first. But the buddhist monks initiated this revolution, without self interest. However, when a Buddhist monk was tied to pole and tortured in public, most Buddhist monks around the country and 200,000 protesters joined in. The protest were very peaceful. They were simply reading Buddhist prayers called Metta Sutta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metta_Sutta), while walking around town. That was all. The tyrant Than Shwe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Than_Shwe) ordered the military to attack, and shoot into the crowd, causing a genocide like in 1988 again. Please ask the United Nations to send UN forces to Burma: http://www.un.org/terrorism/contact-us.asp/ For more info: http://burma.usembassy.gov/ http://www.freeburmacoalition.org/ SIGN THE PETITION...... http://www.petitiononline.com/burma366/petition.html