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Jim Carrey on Aung San Suu Kyi

AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
edited August 2007 in A Moving Train
I saw this on CBC at Six. Jim Carrey released this video on Youtube

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NySuaJ2B20E
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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  • Bu2Bu2 Posts: 1,693
    And thank you to Jim Carrey too! I think he did a great job getting the message across, and now I'm going to learn more about Aung San and Burma.

    Thanks again.
    Feels Good Inc.
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    The extension of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's detention highlights the need for urgent action on Myanmar's deteriorating human rights situation, said Amnesty International.

    The detention order for the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) had been due to expire on Sunday 27 May, but the Myanmar authorities today renewed it for a further year.

    The already grave human rights situation in Myanmar has got even worse over the last year. Amnesty International is calling on the international community and the Myanmar authorities to address this crisis. The Myanmar authorities must take immediate measures to stop abuses against civilians during their military operations in Kayin state. They must release unconditionally all those wrongfully imprisoned, improve prison conditions and end political harassment.

    Aung San Suu Kyi will have spent more than eleven and a half of the last eighteen years arbitrarily detained under house arrest. For much of the remaining time her movement has been heavily restricted by the authorities. She has never been charged or tried with any offence.

    Aung San Suu Kyi's repeated detentions exemplify the ongoing travesty of justice of political imprisonment in Myanmar. There are currently more than 1,160 political prisoners, many of whom have been penalised solely on account of their peaceful dissent towards the Myanmar authorities. Among those in prison are many sick and elderly individuals whose health continues to be jeopardized by poor and worsening prison conditions, including lack of adequate diet and medical care.

    The security legislation used to wrongfully imprison Aung San Suu Kyi and others must be repealed or amended to stop it being used to silence peaceful dissent. At a time when the authorities are proposing political reconciliation, they should be guaranteeing peaceful exercise of basic rights, with no fear of recrimination.

    http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engASA160042007?open&of=eng-2as
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    note to self...myanmar sucks!!

    J.C. looks a bit like J.C.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • not4unot4u Posts: 512
    good stuff jim.
    on another note, it was funny seeing 'Bill Hader' on the tonight show doing what you made a staple long ago by being frightened by the uprising 'clip screen', lol.. I've been thinking of you the past few days my friend. thanks. i wish i...
    we don't want war, but we still want more?
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    just one of many dirtly little secrets our world's elite turn a blind eye to so they may focus on exploitation ...
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