Thank you for the video.

With best regards,
Aung

forgot to place the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t3RYT6Xwds

a video of the burmese demonstration at Orchard Road

I am one of the Burmese demonstrators that day.

By demonstrating in Singapore, we could be sent back. We knowingly took the risk. Most the Burmese oversea regretted that they were not in Burma during September uprising. If we were inside, surely we would join the protest as we did in 1988.

Sometimes, you need to do for what you believe. In fact, the right to assembly is one of our fundamental human rights. If a party or a government is using unjust laws to violate our rights, it is better to defy those unjust laws rather than keeping quiet. For doing that, you may face the retialation from the government. But your effort will never be in vain.

With best regards,
Aung

they protested in singapore where they wouldnt be exposed to such violence by the authorities.

if they wouldnt, it would be equivalent to the singaporeans in singapore wouldnt it?

if they would, it teachs us a lesson in democracy.

It is almost like with voting in opposition during GE – everybody wants more opposition in parliament, as long as the opposition does not win the SMC or GRC they are living in. Let some other SMC or GRC take the risk, while the rest reap the returns.

U still think Singpaore will benefits with ur thinking..

The Burmese protest yesterday is good for Singaporeans. They take the risk, we harvest the returns. We cheer on along the side, but if they get busted by the police and deported, it doesn’t affect us. If anything, their arrest would make the government and police more vulnerable to criticism and cause further cracks in their credibility. The government would eventually buckle under pressure if this keeps up, and change to a more progressive one. The problem is getting enough cannon fodder to sustain the pressure on this government. These Burmese protestors are useful and should be encouraged. Let’s be brutally honest. To put it as a harsh analogy, they are somewhat like the foreign workers here – they do the dirty job and then we send them home after a while, and Singapore society benefits.

I am also curious why chee himself was not there. I am disappointed that the sdp got involved in this. The Burmese people had genuine grievances to air with ASEAN and they can’t do this in their own country. So they try and do this here in Singapore where the ASEAN meeting is being held.

It is sad to see that an opportunistic opposition party is trying to piggyback on the Burmese people’s genuine sufferings in order to stage a sideshow or a wayang.

I am really disappointed with the SDP. I think they need to give it a rest.

i salute the burmese students in their brave and sincere efforts for their march. they did not create a scene and cooperated with the police. i hope that no singaporeans or foreigners allows themselves to be used as any political party’s mouthpiece

see this!!

The Myanmese gathered and marched but complied immediately with police orders.

CSC and John Tan were more defiant and proceeded. Come on, lunch at the hotel?!?

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The type of peaceful gatherings the Myanmese engage in produce sympathy. The confrontational “peaceful” actions by the SDP provoke reaction.

No right no wrong…. just different.