Last Sunday, members of Shan National for Democracy in Japan celebrated the 64th Birthday of SNLD Chairman, Hkun Htun Oo who is sentenced to years of imprisonment by the Military Junta.





 

SPDC Soldiers from Tong Lao Village Company situated in Nong Wo, Merng Kueng Township, Southern Shan State killed one villager and made an unprovoked attack on four others. Some villagers, according to the Buddhist tradition, went to make the alms offering during lent (the rainy season festival) at a local temple. Upon returning to their village, they were stopped, surrounded and sadistically tortured. Later, a fifth man on the same route was cruelly tortured and soon after died from injuries sustained during the attack. A ‘Tai Nation’ reporter gathered the information on this incident from eye-witnesses.

Today (September 11) is the 63rd Birthday of Shan State Leader Hkun Htun Oo. From 3 to 5 pm, Tais / Shans, Shan National for Democracy in Japan took the leading part and with members of the Association United of Nationalities (Japan) and other democracy activists numbering around 200, demonstrated in front of the United Nations University that is situated at 53-70, Jungumae 5-Chome, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo.

At dawn, on 6 August 2006, many ethnic nationalities and democracy activists from Burma now living in Japan held a commemoration tribute for the 8888 event by putting their respective flags at the peak of Mount Fuji, saluting all those who have sacrificed their lives.

Also honoured were those who are making sacrifices in different ways to achieve freedom in the country and praying for those political activists - Khun Htun Oo, Aung San Suu Kyi and all the other political prisoners still under detention, to be released soon, and for peace and freedom to prevail in the Union of Myanmar.