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Here’s an urgent news story about the plight of the Burmese people. Please consider taking action to convince the powerful governments in China and Russia to cease protecting the tyrannical rule of the Myanmar/Burmese military.

YANGON, Myanmar — Mounting pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks against Myanmar’s military government erupted into serious bloodshed for the first time Wednesday, as security forces shot dead at least one man and wounded more in chaotic confrontations in the country’s biggest city.

Despite being bloodied, the monks said they would carry on demonstrating in what have become the biggest and most sustained anti-government protests since a failed pro-democracy uprising in 1988, when soldiers shot into crowds of peaceful demonstrators, killing thousands.
Read Story 9-26-2007

The Myanmar Generals have been condemned by many, many global human rights organizations in the past 15 years, yet they still cling to power by the murder and destruction of their own people and country. In the name of “preserving Burmese culture,” they destroy its Buddhist core and the political and artistic freedom to renew it. See U.S. Campaign for Burma website

Please sign the petition to the Chinese leadership to condemn and desist from supporting the military dictatorship in Myanmar/Burma. Click here to take this small step …