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Defying the Myanmar military junta’s warnings against any further mass protest, nearly 50,000 Buddhist monks and an equal number of civilians swarmed the streets of Yangon and other centres on Tuesday.It was as if a sea of humanity had surged on to the streets. But the junta stayed its hand and did not order crackdown, which was implicit in the warnings issued on Monday following a similar demonstration over economic and political hardship.
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand
A protest march is planned from Oakland to Downtown on the second day of the Group of 20 summit, even as the city warns participants they might not get permission for it from the Secret Service, organizers said Sunday.The Garfield-based Thomas Merton Center and its Antiwar Committee plan a rally starting at noon Sept. 25 in Oakland. At 2 p.m., participants hope to march down Fifth Avenue toward Downtown and the City-County Building, where they will speak out against what a statement from the Merton Center called a "lack of opportunity for public input at the upcoming G-20 summit."
On June 28, the Honduran army overthrew the democratically elected government of left-wing president Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and bundled him onto an airplane into exile in Costa Rica. This action, in spite of being given a constitutional veneer, was not accepted by workers and poor farmers in Honduras, who constitute Zelaya's support base, or by the international community. The Organization of American States, the United Nations General Assembly, the European Union and other international organizations and individual governments, including that of the United States, immediately denounced the coup and stated their support for Zelaya's return.
Iranian police used batons to disperse dozens of opposition supporters chanting "death to the dictator" in central Tehran Monday to protest against the closure of a reformist newspaper, a witness said.The latest street unrest after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential vote took place near the offices of the Etemad-e Melli, the daily of leading pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi.Karoubi angered many hardliners last week by saying some post-election protesters had been raped in jail. His party said Monday that the paper had been temporarily shut down, and the prosecutor's office later confirmed this.
In recent days, we continue witnessing the magnificent demonstration of millions of people from all ages, genders, and national and religious minorities in Iran. They request that their basic human rights, particularly the right to freedom and to choose independently and without deception be recognized. These rights are not only constitutional in most of the countries, but also have been protected against all odds.
The Stalinist show trial of Saturday August 1 – when a number of prominent ‘reformists’ appeared on Iranian state TV to ‘thank their interrogators’ before repenting – was not the first such event in the Islamic republic’s history. Leaders of the ‘official communist’ Tudeh Party were similarly paraded on Iranian TV to denounce their own actions in the 1980s, while in the 1990s we had the trials of ‘rogue’ elements of the ministry of intelligence.However, this time the Islamic leaders forgot that a precondition for the success of such show trials in terms of imposing fear and submission on the masses is total control of the press and media.
People gathered outside the Honduran Consulate today in San Francisco to protest the illegal coup in Honduras and demand the reinstatement of President Manuel Zelaya. The action was in solidarity with the Global Day of Action for Honduras. August 11-Protesters gathered at 5 p.m. today in front of the Honduran Consulate to protest the coup that removed elected President Manual Zelaya, and called for an end to repression in Honduras and the return of Zelaya to office.
Thousands of Hondurans supporting ousted President Manuel Zelaya protested in the nation's capital on Thursday, as a U.S. diplomat prepared to meet representatives of the government that has been in power since a military coup.Zelaya, who was rousted from his home at gunpoint in June and flown into exile by Honduran soldiers, spent the day in Chile, his latest stop on a Latin American tour he hopes will solidify backing from the region's governments.
Hadi Ghaemi, director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights, said he had spoken with family members and colleagues of people who have been arrested or disappeared and was told that there were at least 200 across the country. The Associated Press could not independently confirm the rights groups' reports because of government restrictions on reporting inside the country. The Iranian government has said that it has arrested a relatively small number of people responsible for violence and other crimes.
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and her US co-defendant are to appeal against their convictions, lawyers said Wednesday as the ruling junta faced a global wave of anger over her extended detention.US President Barack Obama led worldwide outrage at the military regime's decision on Tuesday to give Suu Kyi another 18 months of house arrest, a verdict that shuts the Nobel peace laureate out of elections in 2010.
Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya blocked key highways around the capital and elsewhere in the country on Thursday in protests demanding his reinstatement ahead of weekend mediation talks. Watched by police in full riot gear, several hundred protesters congregated at entry points to Tegucigalpa, blocking the southern and northern road entrances. The protesters' leaders had threatened to try to blockade the capital and at least one other major city in the poor Central American state.
Honduran national police have clamped a state of siege on the southern department of El Paraiso and blocked roads from Tegucigalpa to the Nicaraguan border. Thousands of Hondurans who caravanned from the capital to the border yesterday to support the return of President Manuel Zelaya are stranded in trucks, cars and buses along the road.“People could be arrested, imprisoned or shot for being out of their houses, but we have no houses here to return to,” said California-based journalist Clifton Ross, who accompanied the caravan and is stranded in El Paraiso. Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti imposed the state of siege on the evening of July 24. It is in effect round the clock in the department of El Paraiso, closest to the border. The rest of the country is under curfew from midnight to 4:00 a.m.
When members of the Honduran civil resistance solicited the counsel of Serbian resistance veteran Ivan Marovich from July 31 to August 2, a repeat question from various participants was:Q. How do we avoid infiltration?Marovich replied:
Security forces in Niger have used batons and tear gas to disperse a group of women protesting at the president's attempts to hold on to power. About 100 women from the main opposition coalition tried to hold a sit-in outside the constitutional court in the capital, Niamey. President Mamadou Tandja wants to hold a referendum to decide if he should be allowed to seek a third time in office.
Over 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners from Greater New York and neighbouring areas held a rally in Flushing on April 25—the 10th anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners’ group appeal in Beijing, near the regime's Zhongnanhai compound. It was also a gathering to mark the 53 million people who announced their withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. Renowned political commentator and editor-in-chief of Beijing Spring Magazine, Mr. Hu Ping, delivered a speech titled, “Falun Gong Resists Violence For Ten Years” at the rally.
The following is the text of his speech:
Thousands of ethnic Uyghurs in China's Western province of Xinjiang have protested in the capital city Urumqi over alleged mistreatment of Uyghur workers by Han Chinese. Violence erupted after army and riot police moved in, and state media say 140 people were killed. However Uyghur spokespeople abroad say army troops used machine guns, and the protest would have remained peaceful if the ruling regime had left it alone.Protesters in China's western province of Xinjiang have clashed with the army and police, after thousands of ethnic Uighurs rallied in the streets of the capital city Urumqi.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya vowed on Saturday to return to power through peaceful means and denied he was rallying groups of armed supporters near the border with Nicaragua.Zelaya, in exile in Nicaragua, also lamented the death of one of his supporters who was shot during a protest last week. The man died of his injuries early on Saturday, as efforts to resolve the crisis over the June 28 coup remained stalemated.
Protesters swarmed Tehran's main cemetery and fanned out across a large swath of the capital Thursday, defying truncheons and tear gas to publicly mourn those killed during weeks of unrest, including a young woman whose death shocked people around the world.The protests marked the 40th day since the shooting of Neda Agha-Soltan was captured on video and posted on the Internet. For Shiite Muslims, the 40th day has religious importance, often an occasion for an outpouring of emotion and grief.
New York, NY – More than 1000 Amnesty members will protest outside of JP Morgan this Friday to call on the major Dow Chemical investor to raise the issue of ongoing human rights violations in Bhopal, India. This is the first time the annual rally has targeted a corporation rather than a foreign government and reflects Amnesty’s recognition that businesses are also engaged in human rights violations around the globe. The event is part of Amnesty International Group 133’s annual Get On The Bus (GOTB) rally that brings students from all over the Northeast to demonstrate some of the world’s most pressing concerns at several locations in New York City.
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