Yang Jianli survived the massacre of Tiananmen Square. During this days, he is writing about his feelings and memorys in the Washington Post :

“In the early hours of June 4, 1989, I was on Chang’an Street, just west of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, when I saw Chinese soldiers open fire and kill many of my fellow protesters. I barely escaped the same fate. The horror of that day is seared in my mind like it was yesterday.
In recent days, my memories of Tiananmen have come rushing back as I have watched the mass demonstrations in Burma and the junta’s bloody crackdown. After decades of military dictatorship, hundreds of thousands of the people of Burma - a diverse outpouring of Buddhist monks, democracy activists and ordinary civilians - are standing up to confront the country’s brutal regime.
All of us in the Chinese democracy movement stand in solidarity with the Burmese people, who are engaged in a life-or-death struggle to free their country from years of oppression and decay. Everything is at stake for the Burmese, but the outcome in Burma will also have a major impact on our struggle in China.”

Sources: Michael Holmes/Die Achse des Guten

CUT AID: The country’s junta has blocked UN food relief to 500,000 people, mostly children and people suffering from AIDS or tuberculosis, as its crackdown continues.
AGENCIES, YANGON AND BANGKOK
Sunday, Sep 30, 2007,

UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in military-ruled Myanmar yesterday and headed straight to the junta’s isolated capital for what he said he hoped would be "a very fruitful visit," while the World Food Programme (WFP) reported Myanmar was blocking food relief to 500,000 people. 

Deployed by UN chief Ban Ki-moon after this week’s bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, Gambari landed in the main city of Yangon and then flew to Naypyidaw, the new administrative capital, UN officials said.

He said earlier he was going "to deliver a message from the secretary-general to the leadership … and I look forward to a very fruitful visit so that I can report progress on all fronts."

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes Myanmar, used unusually sharp language this week, expressing its "revulsion" at the crackdown on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

Gambari, asked if he expected to meet detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, said: "I expect to meet all the people that I need to meet."

The UN envoy’s itinerary has not been released, but on previous visits he has met with regime leader Senior General Than Shwe.

He has also once met with Aung San Suu Kyi.

"We have called on the Burmese to allow him to be able to meet with anyone he wants to meet — the military leaders, the religious leaders and Aung San Suu Kyi," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said on Friday.

Meanwhile, Myanmar has stopped or restricted the delivery of UN food relief to 500,000 people, mostly children and people suffering from AIDS or tuberculosis, as it cracks down on the protests, the WFP said yesterday.

All movements of food from the northern city of Mandalay, where monk-led protests began 11 days ago, have stopped, affecting WFP operations in Shan State and central areas.

"The immediate concern is in Mandalay, which is our logistics hub for delivering food assistance to vulnerable people that we serve in Myanmar," WFP Asia spokesman Paul Risley said.

Food deliveries have also slowed from the port of Sittwe — where tens of thousands of people have marched against military rule — to people in north Rhakine State.

WFP nutrition surveys have found child malnutrition rates of up to 70 percent in parts of the country, including impoverished border areas.

Sources: Taipei Times

Everyone of us who had the luck to grow up in a democracy, who had the luck to live in it, has not only the right, in addition he also has the obligation to get engaged in it, that the democracy survives and gets strengthened.

In addition to it, we also have the obligation to support other people in their call for freedom and democracy for their land. The citizens of Myanmar (Burma) have already decided years ago, in free choices, for democracy. However, these choices were ignored by the ruling military junta, and the election winner, a peace Nobel prize winner, was taken under house arrest.

See also what is going on: http://www.asienhaus.de/burma
Burma Projekt e.V. http://www.burma-projekt.de

During these days the junta shows again her cruel face, she goes forward by crude use of force and firearms against peaceful, unarmed demonstrators under the leading of Buddhist monks.

There are innumerable dead and injured. Not to talk about those who got kidnapped by the military. At the UN Security Council China and also Russia (didn’t somebody talk about a true democrat in Russia?) have blocked any sanctions with their veto rights. Both governments do active trade with the military junta.

But what is happening here? Where are all the people which are always protesting against anything? Do they sleep or is it just not interesting enough for them? Or, maybe, because the US government is not involved in it, and it would be a protest against a „communistic-regime“, they think protest is not necessary? All those idiots, who are always on the streets when there is something against the US or Israel? Well, I don’t know, but I’m pissed off. But at least something is starting to go on. 

Today the demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy: Solidarity with the democracy movement of Burma

„We ask the military government in Burma to finish the bloody war against the democratic forces in the land and to put the power against demonstrators. We demand a resumption of the dialog with all political forces in the land. We require the release of all political prisoners and the esteem of the basic human rights. We demand that China decided against a forcible intervention of the security forces finishes speaking and the democracy movement. We demand an end of the supply of arms of China to the military junta. We ask China to help carry the resolutions of the community of states against the regime in Burma. Solidarity with the protests in Burma!„

Burma.Initiative

Demonstrations on Monday in Berlin - Aktionsgruppe Burma Berlin

Place and time:1. Embassy of Myanmar, 14195 Berlin, Thielallee 19, at 13.30 hrs, 2. Demo of the Wittenbergplace to the memorial church beginning 15.00 and 3. Rally in the Gedächtniskirche from approx. 15.30 hrs.

Aktionsgruppe Burma Berlin, Kontakt Ye Myint Ye_Myint@t-online.de; Tel: 030/ 752 43 04

And when I said yesterday, that it seems to get worse, you only have to read this article from Radio Free Asia: Ordinary Burmese fought back Friday against a military crackdown on weeks of monk-led anti-government protests, with crowds attacking troops and police with stones, knives, and insults, eyewitnesses said.

And if you watch the videos and read the articles at RFA-Unplugged, you know why.

There are News via Elizabeth Wong, she still gets informations out of Burma:

"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said, “Fear is a Habit; I am not Afraid.”

The people marching on the streets cry out: “WE CAN’T LOSE AGAIN!!!!”

As of this posting (4:00 Burmese Std Time), people in Burma are continuing with their defiance and gathering on the streets again in downtown Rangoon despite of the extreme use of force and violence by the authorities that they have experienced and witnessed over the past twodays – the beating, shooting and killing, and the continuing arrests. There have placed double barricades blocking that no one gets near to Sule Pagoda where shooting and killing took place yesterday.

At least 10,000 or so protesters are gathering around the Theinggyi market area in downtown Rangoon and trying to get into group. But soldiers (Battalion 66 as shown on the badges) are patrolling in the area and when they see people starting gathering they fire guns into the air, chase the people and beat and arrest those who could not run.

An hour ago, this is the update on people arrested: About 10 people, mostly young women, were arrested in front of Ministers Office (Wongyimyar Yone), Ahnawrata Road. About 50 have been arrested in Theingyi market area. There can be more that we don’t have information yet.

In spite of the international outcry, the Burmese junta continues to prove who they are and challenge the world community as they continue to commit the violence against the people. (Cut)"

The best is, if you look quite often in her blog during theese days, she has the best informations about what’s going on.

And here is what the Taipei Times writes about it today:

Nine people, including a Japanese man, were killed yesterday in a
crackdown on anti-government protests, Myanmar’s state media said,
accusing the pro-democracy opposition of fomenting the unrest.

Another 11 demonstrators were wounded, including one woman, and 31
security forces were also injured, it said in an evening television
bulletin.

Scores were also beaten as tens of thousands of protesters, many of
them youths and students, played cat-and-mouse with security forces
across Yangon yesterday, witnesses said.

The six hours of demonstrations ended after sunset and ahead of a
military-imposed curfew, witnesses also said.

A 50-year-old Japanese man, a video journalist working for Tokyo-based
video and photo agency APF News, was killed, his employer said, making
him the first foreign victim of the unrest. Hospital sources said he appeared to have been shot.
At least three other people, including one Buddhist monk, suffered
gunshot wounds, witnesses said.

Scores of people were beaten as soldiers and police used batons, tear
gas and warning shots to break up protests around the city.

Around the Sule Pagoda in downtown Yangon, as many as 50,000 people
sang the national anthem and jeered the soldiers, despite being baton
charged and having warning shots fired.

Around Pansoedan, just east of Sule Pagoda, 10,000 people led by a
handful of Buddhist monks prayed and protested in the streets, waving
religious flags as they taunted the military.

Soldiers and police repeatedly charged the crowd with batons. The group
broke up around sunset after shots were fired over the crowd.

Meanwhile, China yesterday issued its first public call for Myanmar’s
military rulers to show restraint in handling the protests, but refused
to condemn the ongoing crackdown.

"We hope all parties can exercise restraint and properly handle the
situation there to ensure the situation does not escalate," foreign
ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu (姜瑜) told reporters.

Jiang repeatedly declined to condemn the killings of peaceful
protesters in the crackdown.

Meanwhile, an EU lawmaker said yesterday that EU countries should
boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics unless China intervenes in Myanmar,

European Parliament Vice President Edward McMillan-Scott will write to
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the EU’s Portuguese presidency,
asking them to discuss whether athletes should oppose the Beijing games.

"The consensus around the European Parliament is that China is the key.
China is the puppetmaster of Burma," McMillan-Scott told Reuters in a
telephone interview. "The Olympics is the only real lever we have to
make China act. The civilized world must seriously consider shunning
China by using the Beijing Olympics to send the clear message that such
abuses of human rights are not acceptable."

Today, 28th September 2007, the Burmese democracy activists are asking the international community to wear a RED shirt or top, in solidarity with those currently engulfed in the fight of their lives in Burma against the most despicable regime, which our government had supported since 1997 when it allowed Burma to join ASEAN.

This simple act of solidarity will further inflame the hopes and strength of those who have struggled and resisted peaceably for 20 years now.

We are at crossroads now. It’s now or never.

By Elizabeth Wong

By the way: Myanmar(Burma) has cut the Internet connections to other countries:

Internet cafes were closed down. Both MPT ISP and Myanmar Teleport ISP cut down internet access in Yangon and Mandalay since this morning. The Junta try to prevent more videos, photographs and information about their violent crackdown getting out. I got a news from my friends that last night some militray guys searched office computers from Traders and Sakura Tower building. Most of the downtown movement photos were took from office rooms of those high buildings. GSM phone lines and some land lines were also cut out and very diffficult to contact even in local. GSM short message sending service is not working also. Burma is blacked out now!

150 Monks where apprehended last night and two western journalists, from Japan and from Germany, are killed also, at least a Bangkok News agency told so. And it seems to get worse. More of it you’ll find here , also videos of it. Tomorrow at 12:00 hrs, there will be a solidarity demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy here in Berlin. Anyone who could, should come and wear a red or maroon shirt also.

Achim Hecht from the Antibuerokratieteam and Dagny, one of the commentators there are right. Nearly no one in the European blog sphere recognized or making any affords to support the people of Burma(Myanmar). And at the UN security council, like always, the Chinese government blocked any sanctions. And here? I didn’t have seen anyone protesting against the military dictators of Burma. Is it maybe because it’s a so called "Communist regime"? Cause, if there where US-troops behaving like that, there would be much trouble here in the streets of Berlin.

During last night, soldiers stormed the Buddhist monasteries, beating and apprehending the monks. And again people where killed. And now I heard of people, wearing the yellow robe and pretending that they where monks, but where paid by the military to destroy the Islamic mosque, so that it will become a fight between Buddhists and Islams. Much more of it you can read at Nyein Chan Yar’s , Ko Htike’s blogspot, and at Global Voices Online.

Many people will not like what they heard, when President Bush addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations. Especially Dictators and Terrorists. Like Achmadinedschad or Than Shwe in Myanmar(Burma), who is still holding Aung San Suu Kyi, the peace Nobel-price winner, under house arrest.

"Every civilized nation also has a responsibility to stand up for the people suffering under dictatorship. In Belarus, North Korea, Syria, and Iran, brutal regimes deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration. Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma, where a military junta has imposed a 19-year reign of fear. Basic freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship are severely restricted. Ethnic minorities are persecuted. Forced child labor, human trafficking, and rape are common. The regime is holding more than 1,000 political prisoners — including Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party was elected overwhelmingly by the Burmese people in 1990."

Read the whole speech here .

Update: The peaceful demonstrations by the unarmed Buddhist monks in Burma where attacked by the military and at least eight people are dead, about 150 are injured. How many brought to jail or other where by the military is not known until now.

Update 2:

Please watch also Violence amid Burma Protests at YouTube, brought to the net by BBC World News.

We will never forget 9/11.

To Remember is to Honor.

Let’s honor those who risked their lives.

Let’s honor those who volunteered.

Let’s honor those who gave blood.

Let’s honor those who defended us.

Let’s honor those who helped in so many ways.

Let’s honor those who paid the ultimate price.

Let’s honor those who still make us proud today.

For today it only gives a few songs, one of them goes like this: And I’m proud to be an American cause at least I know I’m free, and I won’t forget the man who died to gave that right to me. So I gladly stand up next to you, and defend her till today, cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God bless the USA.

Even the weather was absolutely lousy, it was cold and raining quite often, the party was a full success. As later it got, as more crowded the bar got, and the BBQ with all it’s specialties let nobody getting hungry. And cause of the awning, also no one got wet during the rain. Then, at about 22:30 hrs, Vita(Victoria)Perskaja and Alex, both from the Ukraine, started their performance. They where singing wonderful Russian lyrics, with all it’s melancholy, it’s heart and soul. Their folk songs pushed you deep inside of Russia, into it’s heart, with all the ups and downs, the happiness and and sadness together in the same song. If you have ever went to Russia, you probably know what I mean. It was fantastic.

I’m really sad, that I couldn’t stay long this evening(I really wished I could), it ended at 6:00 in the morning, but cause of the antibiotics I have to take(tooth pain, got an abscess), I felt quite dizzy. So, this eve I couldn’t stay as long as I wished to, and so it was only possible for me to take a few pictures .

Do you like funny, or better let’s say crazy  things? Well, they still happen. And, of course this time again in England. I recognized it through Dr.Oliver M. Hartwich’s article at the "Die Achse des Guten". First you will laugh(maybe), and than you’ll be speechless.

Or do you prefer to get shocked? About the true things the Islamic extremists are doing, about the ongoing jihad in southern Thailand? But, be prepared, the pictures there are really horrifying, read the warning. You will find it here . It was brought to my attention through an article from Michael Holmes.