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ႏုင ိ ္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ႏုိင္ငံတကာလႈပ္ရွားမႈ စတင္ 13 March 2009 ၂၁ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေန႔မွာပဲ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း အက်ဥ္းခ်ခံေနရတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသာ းေတြအားလုံး လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအလုိက္သေဘာတူလက္မွတ္စုေဆာင္းၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ မစၥတာဘန္ကီမြန္း(Mr. Ban Ki-moon) ထံ ေပးပို႔တုိက္တြန္းတဲ့ လႈပ္ရွားမႈတခုကို ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံအေျခစုိကA ္ APP ေခၚ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရးအသင္း (ျမန္မာႏုိင္င)ံ နဲF ႔ DB ေခၚ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီအင္အားစုတုိ႔က ဒီေန႔ စတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေမလ ၂၄ ရက္မတုိင္ခင္ လက္မွတ္ေပါင္း ၈၈၈,၈၈၈ စုေဆာင္းဖုိ႔ ရည္မွန္းထားတယ္လို႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေန႔ဟာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ကလြတ္ေျမာက္ရမယ့္ေန႔လည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ Global Campaign for the Release of Political Prisoners in Burma Global campaign for the release of more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma has now started! The goal is to obtain 888,888 signatures by May 24th 2009. Canadian Friends of Burma endorses this campaign launched by Assistant Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) and Forum for Democracy in Burma (FDB). Furthermore, this campaign is widely endorsed by more than 150 organizations from around the world. Please show your support by signing the petition online and check out the press release issued by AAPP and FDB below! -Canadian Friends of Burmahttps://w5.ottawa.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cfob.org/ Press Release Bangkok, Thailand (13 March 2009) A global signature campaign for the release of Burma’s political prisoners has been launched today, on

Burma’s Human Rights Day. The campaign aims to collect 888,888 signatures before 24 May 2009, the legal date that Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should be released from house arrest. Over 150 Burma exile and solidarity groups are participating in the campaign. Events and activities will take place around the world, including in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, London, Dublin, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Manila, Seoul, Jakarta, Sydney, and Tokyo. The petition calls on the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make it his personal priority to secure the release of all political prisoners in Burma, as the essential first step towards national reconciliation and democratization in the country. The target symbolises 8.8.88, the day the junta massacred some 3,000 people who courageously protested in Burma’s largest democracy uprising. On 3 December 2008, 112 former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 50 countries sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to press for the release of all political prisoners in Burma by the end of 2008. 241 legislators from all over Asia also sent a public letter to the UN SecretaryGeneral on 5 December conveying the same message. Over 2,100 political prisoners remain in Burma’s jails. Tate Naing, a former political prisoner and secretary of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), said, “Political prisoners are not criminals. They have simply stood up for freedom and democracy. Without the release of all political prisoners, there can be no peace and stability in our country. But we need the UN Secretary General to step in and show strong leadership on this issue. With this signature campaign, we want to show Ban Ki-moon just how many people around the world care about this issue.” The global signature campaign will run from 13 March to 24 May. To sign the petition, visit

https://w5.ottawa.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL= http://www.fbppn.net/ For media interviews, please contact: Soe Aung, Forum for Democracy in Burma: +66(0)818399816 Dr Naing Aung, Forum for Democracy in Burma: +66(0)818837230 Tate Naing, Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma): +66(0)812878751