The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday expressed solidarity with the oppressed people of Myanmar, noting that the people’s human rights are being flagrantly violated by the military.
The PPP in a release said that the military dictatorship, having been challenged, had unleashed vicious force on the people who are protesting the economic crisis which the military has led Myanmar into and the undemocratic government.
And no one is really sure how many persons have been murdered by the army, the PPP said. The party pointed out also that the Buddhist monks who bravely led the protests at the early stage have not been seen over the last days and many fear for their lives.
One of the main fighters for freedom and democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, has been under house arrest for the past 11 years, the PPP said, adding that the demonstration over the past week has focused attention on the terrible conditions that the people have to endure.
“It is sad that the world waits until violence is unleashed to speak out against the atrocities of dictatorship,” the PPP lamented.
Meanwhile, the party reiterated its solidarity with democratic and progressive people everywhere in calling for the freedom of Suu Kyi, as well as respect for human rights and the end of military rule in Myanmar, a southeast Asian country of about 50 million people that was formerly known as Burma.
The country has been under military rule in one form or another since 1962 when General Ne Win staged a coup that toppled a civilian government.