BURMANET Asian lawmakers call for Suu Kyi's release

May 21, Agence France Presse - Asian lawmakers call for Suu Kyi's release

Tokyo: Lawmakers from Japan and six Southeast Asian countries called
Monday for the release of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
days before the junta decides whether to extend her detention.

Parliamentarians interested in Myanmar from Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand are meeting for two days
in Tokyo in a bid to build up pressure on the regime.

In a joint statement, they called for "the immediate release of Aung San
Suu Kyi from house arrest and the unconditional release of all political
prisoners." The Tokyo conference is being attended by Sein Win, her cousin
and her
movement's prime minister-in-exile. "We believe very strongly that the issue
of Burma is no longer an internal
problem of Burma alone," he said, using Myanmar's former name.

Myanmar has been ruled by the military government since 1962. Aung San Suu
Kyi's National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in 1990
elections, but the junta never allowed it to take office.

{DO YOU THINK THESE ROGUE GENERALS CARE??. THEY HAVE DESTROYED THE COUNTRY
AND NOW PROTECTING THEM SELVES FROM THE PEOPLE OB BURMA. WITH OUT THE GUN
THESE GENERALS WOULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED LONG TIME AGO.


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