Please write to your MP asking them to sign a Motion for Aung San Suu Kyi

Please write to your MP asking them to sign a Motion fori Aung San Suu Ky

A new motion (a kind of Parliamentary petition) on Burma has been put down in the British Parliament. The Motion – HUMAN RIGHTS IN BURMA – sends best wishes to Aung San Suu Kyi, who on 19th June 2010 will be spending her 65th birthday in detention.

It also calls on the British government to work with the UN to persuade Burma’s generals to enter into negotiations with Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic groups, instead of doing nothing ahead of fake elections planned later this year.

Please write to your MP asking them to support Early Day Motion 112.

Take action here:
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/campaigns/actions/free-aung-san-suu-kyi/free-aung-san-suu-kyi

Or you can post a letter to your MP.

Key points to make include:

· Aung San Suu Kyi will be spending her 65th birthday in detention, and has now been detained for almost 15 years.

· It is important that the British Parliament show that the world has not forgotten Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma.

· A fake election due later this year will not bring democratic change or democracy to Burma.

· The British government and international community must support the United Nations in persuading the dictatorship to enter into negotiations with Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic representatives.

You can send your letter to your MP at:
House of Commons
London, SW1A 0AA

Thank you.
Anna
Burma Campaign UK


Early Day Motion 112: Human Rights In Burma

That this House sends its best wishes to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who will spend her 65th birthday in detention on 19 June 2010; calls for the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma; rejects the elections planned by Burma's generals later this year which, due to election laws and ongoing repression in Burma, cannot be free and fair; condemns Burma's new constitution which is designed to maintain dictatorship in civilian guise and does not grant rights or protection to Burma's ethnic minorities; notes that all diplomatic efforts to reform the dictatorship's sham roadmap to democracy have failed; recalls that the United Nations Security Council, General Assembly, Secretary General and Human Rights Council have all stated that the solution to the problems in Burma lies in dialogue between the dictatorship, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, and ethnic representatives; and calls on the Government to support a United Nations-led effort to pressure the dictatorship to enter into such dialogue.



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