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kyaw luntin <kluntin@hotmail.com> wrote:

The Canberra Times Friday September 10, 1999

About 200 protesters burned flags, smashed fences and hurled pot plants at the Burmese embassy in Canberra yesterday after peaceful sit-in turned ugly.
Police and Australian Protective Service officers had to call for help after being overwhelmed by the demonstration against Burma's ruling military junta.
Demonstrators burned a Burmese flag outside the embassy and charged through 15 police and broke through fences to enter the grounds.
"We intend to stay here until the Burmese dictators allow democratic government," protest organiser Maung Maung Than said.
After police reinforcements arrived, the protesters were dragged away one be one, sparking ugly scenes as organisers traded blows with authorities on the kerb outside.
The protest was organised by the 9999 Action Committee, a loose coalition of Burmese-Australian democratic action groups formed as part of a world-wide protest to mark the August 8, 1988, or 8888, uprising against the Rangoon dictatorship.

Reply to Kyaw Luntin

The protest that seized the Burmese junta's embassy was not as ugly as the Canberra Times defied. In fact, it was a civilized protest compare to the Burmese regime that rapes thousands of girls under age of 12, killed 3,000 peacefull protesters in 1988, jails thousands of democracy supporets, forces thousands of minority ethnic to become homeless and landless, and closes all higher lernaing.

I as an Amreican can say that the students from Burma did very good job during the protest, and I am urging them to do it again. And The Canberra government should not arrest the students next time. That's all I want to say now.
johnrabin@yahoo.com

Duty is Duty

I read about Rob Taylor's news article (Daily Telegraph, September 10). As I was one of the protesters, I would like to fill a hole of the news article.
9999 Action Committee protested at illiegal Burmese Embassy.
Protesters clashed with some police officers because of their aggressive acts.
But I do not want to mention in deatils because we have no problem with the police and all security forces of Australia. They are doing their job.
On the other hand, we, the Burmese are doing our job that is we would like to know the world and its communities that the government in Burma is illegal and the people of Burma are suffering under the military yokes.
The 9999 action committee (not a loose coalition) is unitedly formed by the active Burmese who want to restore Democracy and Human Rights in their motherland. They have already decided to work together until democracy return to Burma.
Revolution is revolution. It can not be measured by the violent or non-violent way.
kmoe@sia.net.au

What else can we do?

Some may say entering into the Embassy is violent. We are entering into a compoud owned by the Burmese People. It is not a crime.
Some people and newspaper highlighted burning flags, smashing fences. huling pot plants. But they never ever highlited the absolute inner voices of the people of Burma.

We have been struggling for Democracy and Human Rights for 11 years. Within these years, WHO CARES ABOUT OUR STRUGGLE AND HOW MUCH? Everybody knows.

So what is the next step? WHO KNOWS?
burma_99@hotmail.com