Burmese Canadian Network
Joint Statement on the Myanmar Crisis
March 14, 2021
On
February 1, 2021, early morning, Myanmar’s military detained our democratically
elected leaders including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win
Myint, other senior figures from the governing party, and many other
pro-democracy leaders.
The
people of Myanmar have spoken at the polls in 2015 and again in 2020 to
establish a democratic nation after languishing under an oppressive military
dictatorship for 52 years. It is critical that Canada and the world rally
around the people of Myanmar.
Recently,
the military has released the criminals from prisons and paid them to commit
all kinds of criminal activities like beating, looting, putting some houses on
fire and other forms of violence to suppress peaceful demonstrations.
The
situation in Burma is getting worse day by day. Please help save our country.
We are counting on Canada.
We
urge the Government of Canada:
1. To
demand a swift release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all arrested individuals.
2. To
reject any appointments made by the Illegal military government.
3.
To recognize the result of the November 8, 2020 general election.
4. To
impose stringent economic sanctions on the military owned businesses in Myanmar
and abroad.
5. We
are grateful to Canada for acting with the United Kingdom to impose sanctions
on nine members of the Myanmar military under the Special Economic Measures
Act. We urge Canada to expand these measures and also use the Magnitsky Act to
further strengthen these sanctions.
6. We
respectfully request a meeting with Global Affairs as soon as possible to share
our views.
Burmese Canadian Network
Phone: 437 992 3417, Fax : 905 712 3833 , Email : BurmaCanadiaNetwork@gmail.com , https://www.facebook.com/groups/1630428673834695
The following organizations have added their
endorsement to this statement:
·
Taiwanese-Canadian
Association of Toronto ( T.C.A.T )
·
Cambodia National Rescue Party ( C.N.R.P -
Canada / US )
·
Formosan Association for Public Affairs,
Canada (FAPA Canada)
·
Taiwanese Human Rights Association of
Canada
·
Formosan Association for Public Affairs
Canada
·
World United Formosans for Independence
·
Regional Tibetan Youth Congress of Toronto
·
New Hong Kong Cultural Club
·
WUFI_Canada -- World United Formosans for
Independence, Canada HQ
·
Canada - Hong Kong Link
·
Burma Canadian Network
·
·
Media
contact
Timothy
Zaw Zaw (Toronto ), Than Aung (Edmonton) ,
Co-founder and Coordinator (Eastern
Canada) Co-founder and Coordinator (Western
Canada)
Email: TimothyZawZaw@BurmaCanadianNetwork.ca ThanAung@BurmaCanadianNetwork.ca
Email : TimothyZ@pioneeringtech.com Email:thanaung56@yahoo.ca
Tel:(437)
992 5417 Tel:(780) 953 9877
Fax:
905 712 3833