Burma: Urgent call for action

by iosaf Fri Sep 28, 2007 17:13

Here is a copy of last night's news on Japan's main TV station.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BUUQi1ooEAs
In it you will see the murder of Kenji Nagai as he is shot though the heart. The pictures were captured from numerous angles and many different types of equipment ranging from TV cameras operation on direct satelite relay systems to mobile phones using the Burmese telecom system to webcams using the Burmese internet. There are some, (like me) who argue the Vietnam war began the phenomena of snuff reportage. The image of the Buddhist monk Quang Duc who doused himself in petrol & burned to death was & still is seen globally. His protest which heralded the Vietnam war was repeated many times by other people far from view as I've explained in comments to this thread on the contemporary crises which is heralding a regime change in Burma now :
http://indymedia.ie/article/84350 Snuff reportage did not end when the self-emolations which followed Quang Duc's example slackened off. One of the other most iconic images of war in the 20th century was Stevie Moore's photo of a summary execution by a South Vietnamese officer & ally of the USA at point blank range of a VietCong prisoner. It is odd that public execution and torture had been commonplace in Europe till just before the first world war in 1914. The last judicial Public hanging in the USA was in 1934.

The Japanese people and their government are outraged at what has happened to Kenji Nagai. Their financial interests see no less than 40 corporations with presence in Myanmar. Names such Toyoto, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Hitachi feature on the long list of companies who let us be honest & make no bones it, or keep it secret in any longer - have carried their names from the age of the Shogun to rule not only Japan but the world today.
It is ironic, is it not? that the equipment which captured this latest addition to our snuff reportage archive might have been recorded using technology developed by those corporations & bearing their assorted logo. It is trully appalling, is it not? that those 40 corporations are not targetted by solidarity actions, not attacked by those who would focus on China. It is truly repugnant, is it not? that in each & every democratic household in the West we can trace the blood of Burma, we can see the hard work of children addicted to pink speed, we can avoid hearing the unanswered prayers of justice in this life -

Australia's ambassador has now joined Mark Cummings (the UK legate) on the list of foreign diplomats who are surprisingly forthright in their language & are assisting the flow of information out of Burma. His state can count only 12 corporate interests in Burma. That is if you count Wallmart australia as being really a thing of Oz and not the Walton clan's mountain. (a reference to the family who started the supermarket of slave labour & minimum wage).

And yet people still point at China!?!?

China is the democracy who should hold its head in shame. China is the state that this year began to reach rapprochement with the Dalai Lama & permit faith groups to organise ranging from Buddhist to Catholic, but that's not good enough - they're bad to the Falon Gong. China is the state that wouldn't buy microsoft and chose to use open software for its billion people cutting our profits and undermining our secrecy of information & systems of royalties and licences. China is the empire that showed us Mattel Toy corporation had cut safety levels out of their production and sent poison into your childrens' hands.

We are talking about regime change. & just as the peaceful future of Iraq means Iranian involvement and sponsorship & then in the full sweep of our 21st century a new Iran - Burmese regime change means seeing the wood for the trees.

We the democrats allowed the generals to wax rich on the sweat of their children & grow powerful by arming the boys who didn't go religious with bowl in hand offering us a prayer of a better future.

We the democratic capitalist states are the guilty parties. Shame on us. In every one of our towns and homes we see the names & logos we ought be burning, we should be writing letters to, we had better recognise as the powerbrokers.

But we prefer snuff & we prefer blaming China.
We prefer the "status quo" for we are so scared of what global freedom will mean to the cheap comfort of our livingrooms.

We blame states because corporations mean good jobs. & we shall never countenace biting the hand that feeds us.

watch your snuff.

by 00 47 55 22 51 00 Fri Sep 28, 2007 22:25

The 3 principle players in the Burmese telecom industry are -
China Telecom
31,Jinrong Street Xicheng District
Beijing 100032
Fax: ++86-10-58.50.10.60

Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Group
Contact: Wei Shao Jun
40 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District
Beijing, 100083
Fax: ++86-10-62.30.11.60

Nera ASA - contract arranged through Nera Telecommunications Singapore
global offices based in Norway http://www.nera.no/en/
contact Bjørn Ove Skjeie
Kokstadveien 23, PO Box 7090
5020 Bergen
Fax: ++47-55.22.52.99

Now if you look really carefully at their contracts you will see the man you want to talk to is Bjorn Skjeie and he lives in Bergen, Norway which oddly enough is where the Burmese democracy people are. He is responsible for the Wireless, Satellite & Microwave Communications Equipment which the Burmese people enjoy, & recently their GSM short message service went on the blink. In the interest of building international consumer rights you should give him a call or a fax. His number is +47 55 22 51 00 He speaks English which is probably better than either Mr Wei Shao Jun the chinese bloke who just put up telegraph poles or going near China Telecom who'll leave you on hold listening to dinky music, you'll end being put through to a callcentre in Mumbai or somewhere.