Dear friends,
The uprising of the anti-junta protests began when more than 100,000 Buddhist monks and their supporters flooded the streets of Burma's biggest city Rangoon on 24 September 2007. The violence began two days ago later when the security forces fired tear gas and live bullets into the streets and beat protesters. The death in toll is now in the hundreds and some media have estimated this to be thousands in the crackdown on demonstration of Buddhist monks and Burma's people.
The crackdown has triggered protests and demonstrations throughout the world. We as civil society in Malaysia very concern on this issue and would like to give our solidarity support to the people of Burma. So that, we call for the following programs:
Solidarity to Burma People Series
Organizer : Civil Rights Committee of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (KLSCAH-CRC),
Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM),
Youth For Change (Y4C).
Amnesty International Malaysia (AI Malaysia)
1. Solidarity Vigil In Support of Burma’s People
Date: Friday, 5 October 2007
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: KLCC (entrance nearest to Menara Maxis, opposite Avenue K)
The peaceful solidarity vigil is to support of Burma's people, who are unable to exercise their human rights in their country, and to express our opposition towards the Burma military junta's bloody crackdown on anti-government protests. The death in toll is now in the hundreds and some media have estimated this to be thousands in the crackdown on demonstration of Buddhist monks and Burma's people.
Please come to show your solidarity. Please bring candles, candle-holders and banners. For further information, please contact SUARAM (MoonHui) at 03-77843525 or Amnesty International (K.Shan) at 03-79552680.
2. Forum on Burma: Road to Democracy (English)
Date : 8th ,October,2007 (Monday)
Time : 7:30pm (video showing) ; 8.00pm (forum starts)
Venue : Auditorium, KLSCAH, 1 Jalan Maharajalela, , 50150 Kuala Lumpur.
(beside the Monorail stesen Maharajalela ) For detail,please visit
http://www.scah.org.my/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=261&forum=16&jump=1
Languages : English
Speaker:
1. Lim Kit Siang (ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus Committee Member)
2. Razali Ismail (former UN secretary general Kofi Annan's emissary to Burma) (to be confirm)
3. Mohammad Sadek (Burmese refugee, Secretary General of Rohingyah Youth Development Forum (Malaysia))
4. Charles Santiago(Director ,Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization (MSN))
5. Aegile Fernandez (Tenaganita)
6. Representative from Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHS)
Chairperson : Elizabeth Wong (Secretariat Member of SUARAM)
3. Forum on Burma: Road to Democracy (Chinese)
Date : 9th ,October,2007 (Tuesday)
Time : 7:30pm (video showing) ; 8.00pm (forum starts)
Venue : Auditorium, KLSCAH, 1 Jalan Maharajalela, , 50150 Kuala Lumpur.
(beside the Monorail stesen Maharajalela ) For detail,please visit
http://www.scah.org.my/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=261&forum=16&jump=1
speaker : Ven. Shih Miao Jan(director , Prajnagraha)
Josh Hong (Malaysiakini columnist)
Yap Swee Seng (Executive Director ,SUARAM )
Chairperson : Liau Kok Fah (member, KLSCAH-CRC )
Languages : Chinese
For further information, please contact KLSCAH secretariat, Mr Chan 03-22746645 or SUARAM ,03-77843525.
Yours,
Ser Choon Ing ,Chairman,CRC
Yap Swee Seng ,Executive Director ,SUARAM
Lee Khai Loon ,Convener , Y4C
K. Shan ,Campaign Coordinator, AI Malaysia