White House Praises Release of Burmese Democracy Leader

kaiNovember 13, 201018min1650

President Obama praised the release of Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday, a pro-democracy leader in the country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, who has been in prison or house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years.

“Whether Aung San Suu Kyi is living in the prison of her house, or the prison of her country, does not change the fact that she, and the political opposition she represents, has been systematically silenced, incarcerated, and deprived of any opportunity to engage in political processes that could change Burma,” Obama said in a written statement released by the White House.

“While the Burmese regime has gone to extraordinary lengths to isolate and silence Aung San Suu Kyi, she has continued her brave fight for democracy, peace, and change in Burma. She is a hero of mine and a source of inspiration for all who work to advance basic human rights in Burma and around the world. The United States welcomes her long overdue release.”

Obama is currently in Yokohama, Japan for the APEC summit, wrapping up his 10 day visit to India and Asia. Earlier in the week, in both India and Indonesia, Obama addressed the recent elections in Burma and his hopes the country would work towards a democracy rather than continue a government under the ruling junta.

“That is why we condemned elections in Burma that were neither free nor fair. That is why we are supporting your vibrant civil society in working with counterparts across this region. Because there is no reason why respect for human rights should stop at the border of any country,” Obama said Wednesday in Jakarta in a speech at the University of Indonesia.

Aung San Suu Kyi lost an appeal for release as recently as Thursday but Burma watchers thought the denial for an early release was a prelude to allowing the full release of Suu Kyi, with signs pointing to her official release when her son, who has been denied a visa in the past, was allowed into the country.

“The United States looks forward to the day when all of Burma’s people are free from fear and persecution. Following Aung San Suu Kyi’s powerful example, we recommit ourselves to remaining steadfast advocates of freedom and human rights for the Burmese people, and accountability for those who continue to oppress them,” Obama’s statement concluded.

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် လွတ်မြောက်လာမှုအပေါ် သမ္မတ ဘာရက် အိုဘားမား၏ သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ချက်

အိမ်ဖြူတော် – သတင်း ထုတ်ပြန်ရေးဌာန သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် ။ ။ နိုဝင်ဘာ ၁၃၊ ၂၀၁ဝ မြန်မာစစ်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်အား လွန်လွန်ကဲကဲ အချိန်ကာလကြာရှည်စွာ အဆက်အသွယ်ဖြတ်တောက် နှုတ်ပိတ်ထားခဲ့ပေမယ့် သူမအနေနဲ့ ရဲရဲဝံ့ဝံ့ ဒီမိုကရေစီအရေး၊ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး နဲ့ မြန်မာပြည် ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲမှုများအတွက် ဆက်လက်တိုက်ပွဲနေခဲ့တယ်။ သူမဟာ ကျနော်ရဲ ့ သူရဲကောင်တဦးဖြစ်ပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံနဲ့ ကမာ္ဘတဝှမ်းမှာ အခြေခံလူ့အခွင့်အရေးအတွက် တိုက်ပွဲဝင် (လုပ်ကိုင်) နေကြသူတွေအားလုံးအတွက် ခွန်အားအရင်းအမြစ် ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ သူမရဲ ့ ပြန်လည်လွတ်မြောက်လာမှုကို အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု က ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်။
ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် နေအိမ်အကျယ်ချုပ် အကျဉ်းကျနေခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် နိုင်ငံအတွင်း အကျဉ်းထောင်ထဲမှာ ရှိနေခြင်းတို့က ပြောင်းလဲမှုအချက်တခု မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။ သူမ နဲ့ သူမ ဦးဆောင်ကိုယ်စားပြုတဲ့ အတိုက်အခံ နိုင်ငံရေးအင်အားစုတွေကို (စစ်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့) စနစ်တကျ နှုတ်ပိတ်၊ အကျဉ်းချ နဲ့ မြန်မာပြည် ပြောင်းလဲရေး နိုင်ငံရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု အခွင့်အရေးတွေကို ပိတ်ပင်ထားနေဆဲဖြစ်တယ်။ အခုအချိန်ဟာ မြန်မာစစ်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ တဦးတယောက်ထဲ မဟုတ်ဘဲ နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားအားလုံးကို လွတ်ပေးဖို့ ဖြစ်တယ်။အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုအနေနဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူနိုင်ငံသားများအားလုံး ကြောက်ရွံ ့ခြင်း နဲ့ ညှင်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်းတို့မှ ကင်းလွတ်လာကြမယ့်နေ့ကို မျှော်လင့်နေပါတယ်။ ကျနော်တို့အနေနဲ့ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ရဲ ့ အစွမ်းသတိ္တ စံနမူနာကို လိုက်ရင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသူ နိုင်ငံသားများ လွတ်မြောက်ရေး နဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ရပိုင်ခွင့်များ နဲ့ ပြည်သူများအား ဆက်လက် ဖိနှိပ်ချုပ်ချယ်နေသူများကို အရေးယူလုပ်ကိုင်သွားဖို့တို့ကို ကျနော်တို့အနေနဲ့ ခိုင်ခိုင်မာမာ ဆက်လက်ရပ်တည် လုပ်ဆောင်သွားမယ်လို့ ထပ်မံကတိပြုလိုက်ပါတယ်။

ဘာသာပြန် – ဇာဝါရီ (မယ်ရီလန်)

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press Secretary________________________________________
For Immediate Release November 13, 2010Statement by the President on the release of Aung San Suu KyiWhile the Burmese regime has gone to extraordinary lengths to isolate and silence Aung San Suu Kyi, she has continued her brave fight for democracy, peace, and change in Burma. She is a hero of mine and a source of inspiration for all who work to advance basic human rights in Burma and around the world. The United States welcomes her long overdue release. Whether Aung San Suu Kyi is living in the prison of her house, or the prison of her country, does not change the fact that she, and the political opposition she represents, has been systematically silenced, incarcerated, and deprived of any opportunity to engage in political processes that could change Burma. It is time for the Burmese regime to release all political prisoners, not just one.The United States looks forward to the day when all of Burma’s people are free from fear and persecution. Following Aung San Suu Kyi’s powerful example, we recommit ourselves to remaining steadfast advocates of freedom and human rights for the Burmese people, and accountability for those who continue to oppress them.

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  • THE PEOPLES LAND 2 hours ago
    WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • PATRIOT888 5 hours ago
    The praise from the WH, needs to be questioned. For this is the same WH who praises the greatest murderer in the world-Mao (up to 100mil. deaths). They even rewarded Mao w/ his own ornament on the WH Christmas tree.
  • Soros is funding lobbyists to keep American sanctions on Burma. The net result? Burma is becoming a Chinese colony. It’s not in America’s national interest to keep these sanctions. Soros’s money keeps them in place. Aung San Suu Kyi doesn’t realize what’s being done in her name.
  • “Their crime? CHRISTIAN” that is so not true.
    it is so complex issue.
  • Herkfixer 7 hours ago

    “White House Praises Release of Burmese Democracy Leader” … Whether Aung San Suu Kyi is living in the prison of her house, or the prison of her country, does not change the fact that she, and the political opposition she represents, has been systematically silenced, incarcerated, and deprived of any opportunity to engage in political processes that could change Burma,”

    That doesn’t sound very much like praise. That sounds like they are trying to marginalize the good will of the Myanmar Government. Its a first step and they should be announcing it as that. They should be reaching out and rewarding that country and providing further incentive for them to step with their transition back to a free nation.

  • Charles Bartnett 8 hours ago
    There is more than one side to the Aung San Suu Kyi situation— too long and involved for this space. She is the daughter of a national hero and has said the army is hers. She was offered a chance to visit her dying husband but didn’t because she wants the power in Burma that her father had. Clinton castigated Burma for the drugs it exports but did not understand that it was rebel drug cartels who were the culprits, with armies in the jungles fighting the government. It goes on and on. And the country is Myanmar, not Burma, and Yangon, not Rangoon. The popular names were given by the British occupying force. As I said, it goes on and on.
  • She also holds a seat in the organization called “The Elders”. They believe in a global government and consider themselves to be equivalent to the elders of a global village. This is the same group that ex-President Jimmy Carter belongs to
  • Obamanation 9 hours ago
    They’ll praise the release of others, while leaving AMERICAN hostages in iran?!
  • Were american hostages in Iran for 15 years like her,or more like 15 day.
  • silverjoe 9 hours ago
    OK! The current US debt is $13.7T. The current US debt ceiling is $14.7T; leaving us $1T with which to work. If the congress were to get to work and lop $300-400B out of next year’s budget (let’s fire some of those federal workers @ $150K/per who don’t really do anything for our economy, get rid of some of the entitlements inside SS, Aid to Dependent Children, etc. that are boondoggles, dump the federal education department–states do a much better job, and look deep into the military budget, as there is plenty of spending waste there), we’d have just enough ceiling with which to work. These guys who run our government should be just as uncomfortable as a family trying to make ends meets. We’re doing it; why can’t they? Don’t default on the debt; and little Timmy should be able to figure that out–it’s really simple undergraduate Finance 101. I like the idea of putting the administration’s and legislature’s feet to the fire. Let’s do this!! (Sorry, Glenn Beck, don’t agree with you on this one!!)