Please join the Friday 13th March Burma Human Rights Day Protest for 127 Student Activists violently assaulted and arrested in
Burma. March 13 has been informally known as Human Rights Day or Phone Maw Day, in commemoration of the Rangoon Institute of
Technology (RIT) student who was shot dead during protests by Burmese soldiers on this day in 1988.
We already did an emergency protest this Wednesday at Embassy, FCO & Downing Street and handed in a letter to the Foreign Office.
The Burmese community is also concerned that the BBC naively reports Burma Information Minister Ye Htut's propaganda on Facebook,
trying to blame students.
127 peaceful young student activists were brutally beaten by police and arrested on Tuesday 10th March in Letpadan this week in a
deliberate crackdown on protests by the authorities. The police violently attacked an ambulance and surrounded students beating
them. This follows the authorities use of known criminals as thugs (often referred to as Swan Arshin ) to attack student protesters
in Rangoon the previous week.
The students were doing everything they could to stage a non-violent protest and had even agreed to turn themselves in for arrest.
All the training by EU authorities is not going to make any difference at all to human rights in Burma when authorities in Burma are
in charge wanting to use violence to crush grass roots protests. The authorities will just pick and choose from EU training what
helps them suppress the people's right to protest and maintain their dictatorship.
The authorities have begun releasing some of the students following widespread outrage inside Burma and across the international
community.
Friday 13th Burma Human Rights Day Protest for Student Activists violently assaulted and arrested in Burma
Date: Friday 13th March
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Venue: Outside Burmese Embassy 19A Charles Street London W1J 5DX,
Tube: Green Park | Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=W1J5DX
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