Our release statement concerning Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on trial

Call for Immediate Release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma Campaign Holland Statement on the Military Regime’s Current Charges against
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

May 30, 2009

1. Burma Campaign Holland calls for the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and its Chairman Snr Gen. Than Shwe to drop all the charges against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and release her immediately and unconditionally.

2. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is totally innocent, and she did not breach the term of her house arrest and impose a threat to national security. In fact, the regime itself breaches its own security terms and conditions. Burma Campaign Holland believes that the regime has full responsibility over the mysterious American man, John William Yettaw, who allegedly swam to her lakeside home and stayed over two nights.

3. Without the junta premeditatedly letting the man to enter the compound, it was very impossible he could trespass through the highly tightly guarded and surveillance premise. In fact, Burma is a police state.

4. The SPDC itself is illegal regime that came to power after they killed thousands of peaceful protesters in 1988. It is very questionable whether justice is served under the illegitimate junta on legitimately elected party’s leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

5. The SPDC is in fact using the charges against her is as a pretext to lengthen her prison terms. The regime is highly unlikely to release her before the 2010 election. If Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is convicted and sentences of lengthy prison terms, NLD will face difficult position to decide whether it will contest in the election. The party can be divided by sided with the SPDC by cutting communication.

6. Burma Campaign Holland deeply concerns the world attention on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s freedom will be shifted after the SPDC is announcing its 2010 election commission and political party registration laws.

7. Burma Campaign Holland clearly opposes the SPDC’s seven point roadmap, including 2010 election, since beginning. In fact, the so-called 2010 election and putting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in the prison will not solve the half century long political and ethnic identity conflicts. It will even threaten to its own roadmap to prolong the military power.

8. Unjust and brute is the nature of an end with one’s own unjustifiable mistake and falsity so that trying Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under the restricted and military controlled judicial system is the biggest mistake the regime has ever made.

9. Finally Burma Campaign Holland calls for European Union to impose targeted sanctions on the Burmese Military regime and urge Chinese Government to pressure on the SPDC for democracy transformation in Burma.