I have received this petition twice in my Inbox this morning by e-mail. The image is part of an advertisement campaigners plan to take out in major newspapers Saturday. The following is a translation of an interview by RFA’s Burmese service with a Rangoon resident:
Man: Around 2 am in the morning they came with their trucks and woke up everyone in the houses and asked them to get out of their houses. It was around 3 am. They left only old people in the houses. Those who’d been asked to leave the houses were asked to bring three sets of clothing. I don’t know where they were taken. They were all put onto the trucks and taken away with their heads bowed, and their hands on their heads.
Interviewer: Are you from that ward?
M: Yes.
Inter: Is it Yaydashay Road where they took people away? Which other roads were involved?
M: Yes, Yaydashay Road, the old road, the old Yaydashay Road from this side, and the front entrance of Shwedagon Pagoda. They said they were going to take away people from this side of Yaydashay Road. They just announced that they would take people from Zabeh Gyan and five compounds from there. But they hadn’t done so yet. Before they left, they said they would return the next day to get them.
Inter: Please describe the way they came and took away people so that we can picture it vividly.
M: Oh, yes, they came in two trucks. Basically, we saw them put people on two trucks. I don’t know how many trucks they came with. There were soldiers, and police, and the former Ya-Ya-Ka, and also, there were members of divisional level Women’s Affairs group. They told people, “Get out of your houses.” They only left old people. They took away all of the women and husbands and wives. They took all of the younger ones away…They asked them to leave the house and said, “Get in the truck,” and left with them. Yesterday, there was a lawyer’s family. Only an old man who had had a stroke was left behind. The rest of the people had to go and stay somewhere else. They had to come from that place to take care of him. On the 4th of August, 2007, people from the municipality came around at 4pm and measured the land.
Inter: Now, they said you were supposed to take only three sets of clothes, so what about the things in the house like their furniture and all? How are they going to deal with those things?
M: Currently, they are just left behind. Not all of the houses could be moved. Some houses have moved or are moving. Those who can are already moving. Currently, those who cannot move yet are having difficulties.
Inter: When they asked them to move, were they given any place to move?
M: No, Sir. Nothing like that.
Inter: I understand that some of the people living there are squatters but some houses have land grants. Yes, most of the people living there have land grants. Only a few of them are squarters, just one or two of them. Actually, the houses there have land grants.
Inter: So what’s the latest situation?
M: Currently, of course people are nervous. Everyone must move or else they’d be detained. Everything is quiet and the roads are clear. Everyone is scared. We don’t know whom we are supposed to be afraid of. We’re just afraid of everyone.
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Yet again China get dragged into this while you people ignore the fact George Soros’ OSI has been financially supporting the uprise.
The Burmese democracy activists have openly acknowleged receiving support from OSI. Add on qusai-government organization like NED funded Einstein Institute operated by CIA officer Col. Rober Helvey – and people wonder why.
Are you going to tell the Chinese people about America’s privatization of foreign policy like this, where cold-war warriors justify their exsitence by spending their ill-gotten gains on behalf of Uncle Sam?
Are you going to remind them George Soros was the one who destroyed the Thai Baht back in 1997?