Subject: [cwj 89] 6 Activists were detained while protest at the Myanmar Embassy
From: Corporate Watch in Japanese <cwj@corpwatch.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:53:31 -0700
Seq: 89
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 From: "TIN KYI" <tinkyi@tkf.att.ne.jp> 6 Activists were detained while protest at the Myanmar Embassy. The six activists have been detained today in front of the Myanmar embassy. On the morning of Aug 29, 2000 thirty activisits from the Tokyo base League for Democracy in Burma handcuff themselves at the main gate of the Myanmar Embassy at Shinagawa ward Tokyo. Since August 24, 2000, Burmese Democracy champion Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and some of the leaders from NLD have been standoff with Myanmar military junta at Dala close to capital , Rangoon. The International community has expressed its outrage at the Myanmar Junta's blockade of Aung San Suu Kyi in the country and warned it will be regarded as responsible for her safety. But Japanese Government was silent and says that they are still watching and thinking what to do. The activists said thay want to made a appeal to the Japanese governemnt to assist in alleviating this crisis by requesting the Myanamr military junta to lift this blockage and give Daw Aung San Suu Kyi freedom of movement neccessary for her party activities. They made a call to The Foreign Ministry of Japan and have a appointment to meet at 1:00 pm at the office. The activists voluntary released the handcuff and peacefully ended their avtivities. As then the MPD order the police from Shinagawa ward to arrest the activics. All of the activists were not arrest but six persons were detained at the front of the Embassy including the leader of the group. The name of the persons detainted are 1/ Khin Maung Zaw 2/ Win Soe 3/ Maung Maung Myint 4/ Zaw Zaw 5/ Zaw Lin Han 6/ Soe Naing They are face to detained for a time being and we all alert to the communities around the world to appeal for their immediate release and protest the Japanese government's stand on this humanrights abuse to the people in their country. League for democracy in Burma Rm 502, APTO Bldg 7-18-1, Takinogawa, Kita -ku Tokyo 1140023 Japan Tel / Fax 813 3916 4996. ------------------------------------- Corporate Watch in Japanese Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC) P.O. Box 29344 San Francisco, CA 94129 USA Tel: 1-415-561-6472 Fax: 1-415-561-6493 Email: cwj@corpwatch.org URL: http://www.corpwatch-jp.org ------------------------------------- ______________________ The Corporate Watch in Japanese http://www.corpwatch.org/japan (CWJ) mailing list is a moderated email list in English designed to connect activists campaigning against Japanese corporations and investments around the world. * To unsubscribe from the CWJ mailing list, send an email to majordomo@jca.apc.org with text "unsubscribe cwj". To subscribe to the CWJ mailing list, send a message to majordomo@jca.apc.org with the text "subscribe cwj" * The CWJ mailing list is NOT intended for wide distribution. If you would like to post messages from this list somewhere else, we ask that you first contact us at cwj@corpwatch.org ______________________