From bloggers: "Please Help Monks!!!!!!!!!!"

[babylonsister]

http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/2007/10/junction-8-burma-time-1351-there-are-2.html

Monday, 1 October 2007

Please Help Monks!!!!!!!!!!

Reports emerging from Rangoon indicate that the temporary detention
centres based in Yangon Institute of Technology and General Institute
of Technology (GTI) is currently detaining 500 hundred monks.

The monks are refusing to accept Sune (Alms food.....food offering given to monk
by layperson just before 12 noon as main meal of the day) from the
military junta. The local population approached these detention
centres to offer food and they have been turned away by the
authorities. Technically, the monks are unintentionally on huger
strike.

We contacted the International Red Cross's (ICRC) office and UNHCR in
Rangoon. The UN's office refused to help and ICRC bucked the
responsibility on their head office in Geneva.

Please write or Phone to ICRC, e-mail Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister
Gordon Brown. Every governments contribute funds in the running of
the UN bodies and therefore you persuade the PM and the Foreign
Secretary to pressure the UN organisations to take action on or least
ask them if they provide value for money service to the world
humanity.

Please be professional when writing to PM Gordon Brown and Secreatarty
. You can thank the British Government for their efforts so on Burma
and persuade them succinctly with sound arguments. Contact details
are:



ICRC headquarters in Geneva

Postal address
International Committee of the Red Cross
19 avenue de la Paix
CH 1202 Geneva

Fax
ICRC general: ++ 41 (22) 733 20 57
Production, Multimedia, Distribution Division: ++ 41 (22) 730 27 68

Phone
++ 41 (22) 734 60 01


UK prime minister office

10 Downing Street,
London,
SW1A 2AA

Fax
[phone]

[emlev]

1. Compilation thread of resources on Burma situation

Bunch of useful links here.

[babylonsister]

2. THANK YOU! nt

[TacticalPeek]

3. K & R

Thanks.

:kick:

[Lucinda]

4. KR for this one too

[roguevalley]

5. will do. thank you for giving me something to do about this.