Rachel's posts with tag: dr. chee
The protests and violence in Burma recently has shown not only the well known ruthlessness of the Burmese government but has also exposed governments of several countries in terms of political and economical hypocrisy. Besides that, it has also proven how blind and brainwashed some people can be and that is terrible a fact to even digest.
On the homefront in Singapore where I am now, none of the applications for a peaceful protest supporting the Burmese protestors have been approved and the Burmese over at Peninsula Plaza have been told by the police to stop wearing the pro democracy t-shirts. Responding to the situation in Burma as the ASEAN chair, the Singaporean government provided nothing but all talk. So did the Prime Minister's letter to the junta. At the same time we hear rumours from sources citing that the family members of Gen. Than Shwe are here in Singapore. Typically the general population of Singaporeans are not in the least bit concerned. They go about their lives as if Burma is in another galaxy and such violence will never be seen in Singapore. They don't care, they don't feel and that is their choice but when a particular member of the opposition political party comes up with a petition, they suddenly come alive with opinions and attacks. That is something I find totally disturbing and bizarre.
On September 30, Dr. Chee Soon Juan and some of the party members from SDP held vigil outside the Burmese embassy with two letters of protest for the public to sign. The two letters, one addressed to the ambassador Mr. U Win Myint and the other, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The first letter to the Burmese ambassador urged the SPDC to cease all brutal actions against the protestors, release the political prisoners (Aung San Suu Kyi included), hand the political power over to the rightfully elected party of the 1990 election (NLP) and to ender into dialogue with the NLP as well as the minority ethnic groups in Burma to diffuse the explosive situation in Burma and to establish democracy. The second letter was a request for the government to declare whether it has sold amunitions in any form to the junta as well as a demand to know if the GLCs are doing business in Burma. I see nothing wrong with the two letters at all and I agree with both. There have been criticisms regarding these two letters and some are saying that Dr. Chee is explioting the situation in Burma to bring attention to his party. I find most of the criticisms totally empty of validitation. There is absolutely no proof that this petition's sole reason was to bring any form of attention to SDP and Dr. Chee. As if he hasn't had enough attention already as the media are always eager to suck up to the government by painting a bad picture of him. I guess many Singaporeans have been brainwashed to think that anything done by Dr. Chee and his party is bad and not worth supporting hence they criticise merely for the sake of doing so. They have lost their ability to think any longer and just follow what the big PAPpy says.
I wonder how many of those who stood up to criticise the petition have read the letters at all. I also wonder how many of those who criticised want blood money in our National Treasury.
Comeon people, smell the stench of the PAPpy's closet. Many skeletons are lurking in there and they are not as clean as their party uniform suggests. Use your brains and think for yourselves, don't let the government and their media do the thinking. DEMAND for your rights to know the facts that should have been transparent right from the start. We should know who and what are really governing our country. It is our very right as citizens.
Links:
Straits Times won't publish Dr. Chee's reply to M M Aung
http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articleburmaprotest12.html
(Personal note: I see nothing wrong with the reply. Read and decide for yourselves.)
Myanmar should reject Dr. Chee's cause (M M Aung's letter to the Straits Times)
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_163871.html
Chee Soon Juan's 'Exploitation' of the Burma Situation?
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/06/chee-soon-juans-exploitation-of-the-burma-situation/
A Protest and Petition in Singapore
http://chemgen.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/a-protest-and-petition-in-singapore/
You can read the letters here: http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articleburmaprotest2.html
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