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IF MAWDSLEY & GOLDWY CAN DO IT...



HERO & HEROIN OF FREEDOM
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By Julien Moe

11th September 1999

While the thugs of the SPDC are complaining about the British occupation of
Burma, blaming the British, Mawdsley and Goldwyn who are the human rights
activists detained by the human-rights-violating SPDC are now paying the
price, not for their own sake but for the freedom of the Burmese people. The
media reports that "British diplomats in the Burmese capital Rangoon are
urgently trying to make contact with a British human rights activist
arrested on Tuesday for singing revolutionary songs". She is now being
interrogated by the military imtelligence for tying herself to the lamp
post. She was just protesting against the military goverment that has
refused to hand over power to civilian rule. She was just demonstrating how
a Burmese has been suffering miserably since the military coup staged in 1988.
Miss Goldwyn is the second Briton to be arrested in the last fortnight for
protesting against Burma's military dictatorship according to the
media.James Mawdsley, 26, who was arrested in Burma's Shan state, was
sentenced to 17 years in jail without trial for carrying anti-government
literature. 

James Mawdsley and  Rachel Goldwin have never worked for SIS, MI6 or MI5,
the intelligence services of the British government.. They are not British
subjects as the SPDC have accused them. They are just concerned
humanitarians who know what's going on in Burma. They are not all at sea.
Why are they concerned about the Burmese situation? It is so obvious that
the Burmese situation is worse than what observers have analysed. Now that
these human rights activists are sympathetic with the situation, sacrificing
their lives put in the hands of the miliatry dictators. The members of the
SPDC should think twice before they commit another crime that will blacklist
them in history.