Aung San Suu Kyi: World Leaders Put Your Money Where Your Mouth IS!

Leaders worldwide condemned Myanmar’s decision last week to extend Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s imprisonment by 18 months after finding her guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest.

It’s time for global leaders to match words with actions or as I crudely put in the title of this post, “put your money where your mouth is”.

While Amnesty applauds the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ condemnation of the verdict in Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial, the 10-nation ASEAN bloc must ratchet up pressure for the release of Suu Kyi and thousands of other political prisoners in Myanmar.

The head of the Myanmar’s ruling military junta, Than Shwe, has brushed off criticisms before, and there’s little reason to believe he’ll clean-up his act unless ASEAN shows that this time it means business.

That’s why we’re calling on ASEAN to convene a meeting of the top brass in foreign affairs from all 10 member nations to come up with concrete measures to finally address the growing human rights crisis in Myanmar.

We’re turning up the heat ourselves by calling on supporters to send 10,000 postcards – instead of emails – to the Thai government, which currently chairs ASEAN. (Don’t worry – we’ll send the postcard for you, so you don’t have to buy postage, lick stamps or find a mailbox.)

Send a postcard today demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and thousands of other political prisoners in Myanmar.

Time is running out. Vietnam will replace Thailand as chair of ASEAN at the end of next month. Critics have raised concerns that ASEAN’s new human rights body will be toothless under Vietnam’s leadership.1 We must ramp up our calls on Thailand to show leadership on human rights in Myanmar in order for it to make a difference in the remaining weeks of its chairmanship.

Act now. Help us send 10,000 postcards to the Thai government by September 1st to urge them to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and thousands of other political prisoners in Myanmar.

This article was lifted from an email that I received from Amnesty International USA. The title is mine and I have added a short reference to the title in the body of the post.  Everything else is the copyright of AI USA.

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