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Phone Maw day
Burma's Human Rights Day
Coming March 13th is Burma's Human Rights Day because in that
day in 1988 a student named Phone Maw and other five students were shot
to dead while they were demonstrating in front of Rangoon Institute of
Technology (RIT) by the Burmese military troops.
Students, monks, workers and people have been demanding their
basic rights such as freedom of expression, organizations, publication,
travelling, and freedom of trading for more than three decades.
Phone Maw death was the turning point in the Burmese history.
Military could no longer silence its people and allow them to
form political parties, even though they do not wish to.
Unfortunately, still Burma is under military boots; democracy
and human rights are not available for the Burmese people in the present
time. Burmese still live as military's slaves, still struggling against
military dictatorship.
We have to work harder than in the past to fulfill the wishes
of the martyr like Phone Maw and unknown heroes.
We promise that their wishes are not in vain and we have the
duty to fulfill their wishes for equality, human rights and democracy.
Historical four eight nation wide demonstrations toppled down
the BSPP regime and coming four nine on September 9, 1999 will end the
military rule in Burma, if we believe ourselves, if we are united and if
we are working hard.
Then the lives of the heroes, which were terminated by the
ruthless military regime, will not be in vain. Their souls will be free
and Burma will become the proud nation in the world once again.
Civil Society for Burma
13 March 1999
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