Global Justice Center Update

Dear Friends,

We need you to join us in making Nicholas Kristof's wake up call on Burma this week the first step in sending the ruling criminal junta to the International Criminal Court.

On February 4, 2009, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof highlighted the ongoing devastation of the people of Burma by the criminal regime, which has ruled with rape and murder for over forty years. There is now a way to end impunity. The UN Security Council can send Burma to the International Criminal Court for investigation and prosecution of war crimes.

We ask you to not only commend Nicholas Kristof, but respond to his column with a call for justice. Although Mr. Kristof commendably calls for "new approaches" on Burma, there is already an available solution. The International Criminal Court was created by the global community precisely to end impunity and remove criminal dictatorships. Learning from history, criminal dictators do not respond to pleas of envoys or sanctions. Ongoing impunity has made General Than Shwe more powerful than ever. Moreover, the call to the ICC is what all of the exile Burma groups are asking of the international community.

GJC Burma Researcher Phyu Phyu Sann posted one call for criminal accountability on Mr. Kristof's blog this morning:

We do not need a new approach, just the old approach - justice.

We people of Burma deserve it. Many of my friends are in prisons calling for justice. This is the dictatorship that put 20 year olds in prison for 104 years and many others.

Not only me but all of my colleagues of 88 generation and monks are calling for justice. There is the International Criminal Court as a way to bring justice for people of Burma. Why do we need a new approach???? We need "Justice", a very fundamental and old one.

-Phyu Phyu Sann
Member of '88 Students

The '88 Generation Students, International Burmese Monks Organizaton, National Council of the Union of Burma, Women's League of Burma, Burma Lawyers' Council and other representatives of Burma's people are calling for justice, as is the European Union. We are asking for you to do the same.

The people of Burma need our help by responding to Mr. Kristof and letting him know that the "new approach" we need is right before our eyes. The crimes that the SPDC is committing are crimes not just against the people of Burma, they are crimes against the entire world. If we do not stand up for people of Burma we are encouraging the next criminal dictator and endangering the next vulnerable population.

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Thank you,
Global Justice Center