U WIRA THU : Open Letter to “Ms. Hannah Beech (TIME Magazine)”

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U WIRA THU




HANNAH BEECH 



U WIRA THU : Open Letter to
 “Ms. Hannah Beech (TIME Magazine)”-ENGLISH

June 26, 2013

Dear Sister Ms. Hannah Beech,

I nationalist Buddhist Monk U Wira Thu is writing this letter to you. When you came to us, we had treated you and your photographer with hospitability. You know we had done our best to help you and your photographer to get what you want.

We had helped you only with the good volition that we want the media and correspondents get the true facts.

We helped you because we respect western liberal media like Times and we expected you wouldn’t make lies to the people of the world. And we did not think you wouldn’t break ethic and responsibility of media.

Now I know that you are the worst visitors we have ever had.

I could not see the hatred behind your smiles. I could not see your ruthlessness under your tender actions.

I could not see your deceit under your sweet words it is like blade covered by honey.

I did not think that a gentle and beautiful girl like you have the ruthless heart of performing savages attack on us to be heard all over the world. I could not think that because of my background may be as you said I was a vagabond.

I had told you that those names such as Shaved Head Nazi, Neo Nazi, Burmese Bin Laden were given by Muslims on Facebook. And then liberal media like you dare use the word like “The Buddhist Monk, The Title “Burmese Binladen”
I believe (think) you admit your dirty mind by deliberately using the word “The Buddhist Monk” then followed by the word “With the man in burgundy robes.” You are not a lady with high moral ground and you are same as dirty minded as extremists all over the world. Muslims are also like you want me to strip of the robe. They do not revere me as a Monk and call me “the man in the robe.”

My preaching is not burning with hatred as you say. Only your writing is full of hate speech.
We can forgive the misunderstanding. We can forgive wrong conclusion. But will you deny that your hatred words targeted me to tarnish my reputation.

Please recheck your words and the words that I preached.
“Now is not the time for calm.”
“Now is the time to rise up to make your blood boil.” These are your words.
Now I show my words.
969 is for peace,
We should preserve these noble reputations of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.
For our National cause, our Culture and our Faith,
We will avoid terror act.
Upholding three gems (Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha)
We will perform with honesty, diligence and determined attempts.
For our national cause,
We will carry out it warmly without ignorance.”
These are my words. It is clear that you made savage attack against me by comparing my words and your words.

I preach people not to react with lawlessness, but you accused me of terrorist. You tried to draw a picture of me as a person who aggravate the situation by hate speech and fuelling to make offensive attack, where I am preaching people to perform with honesty, diligence and determined attempts to preserve our value. I preach people to carry out national cause warmly without ignorance, than you gave the world bad impression of me who is trying to boil the blood of people.

You dare do that.
With sustained loving-kindness,
Ven. Wira Thu

 
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Microsoft Establishes Presence in Myanmar

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Technology giant Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Thursday established a presence in Myanmar for the first time, forming an exclusive partnership with local firm Myanmar Information Technology as the central supplier for all of its products in the emerging market.

The move represents the "first step" in Microsoft's plans for the market, with the company focusing on distributing its products rather than any manufacturing operations, Jamie Harper, president for new markets in Southeast Asia at Microsoft, said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on East Asia.

"All infrastructure in the country depends on computing power," said Mr. Harper, who sees most opportunities for Microsoft in Myanmar's large government sector and in business-to-business operations.

Myanmar offers rare growth opportunities for information technology firms, with an internet penetration of just 0.4% in the country of 60 million. The government has pledged to open up the sector to foreign investments, including offering two telecommunications licenses, and aims to bump internet penetration up to 80% in the next few years. Bidders for the telecom-license tender include Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (Z74.SG) and Bharti Airtel Ltd. of India (532454.BY), with license winners expected by June 27.

Mr. Harper declined to comment on specific investments in Myanmar, but said that its partner, Myanmar Information Technology -- which set up the first ATMs in the country last year -- has "the resources of Microsoft behind it".

The American technology company also has its eye on other emerging markets in the region, particularly tiny Laos, where it doesn't currently have a formal presence.

"We don't have the same relationship [in Laos that] we have here in Myanmar, but we are very interested in doing something like that there," Mr. Harper said.

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Aung San Suu Kyi Calls For Presidency Reform

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Ms Suu Kyi cannot become president under the current constitution

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is calling for a change to the constitution that would allow her to run for president.

Burma's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she would like to run for president in elections due to be held in 2015, if she is allowed.
The constitution currently blocks anyone from getting the job if their spouses or children are overseas citizens.
The clause is widely believed to target the Nobel Peace laureate as Ms Suu Kyi's two sons with her late husband Michael Aris are British. 
Speaking at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Burma's capital, Naypyidaw, she called for an amendment to the military-drafted constitution which prevents her from leading the country.
"I want to run for president and I'm quite frank about it," the veteran democracy activist told delegates. "If I pretended that I didn't want to be president I wouldn't be honest."
President Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government has surprised the world since coming to power two years ago with dramatic political and economic changes that have led to the lifting of most Western sanctions.
Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed, democracy champion Ms Suu Kyi has been welcomed into a new parliament and tentative ceasefires have been reached in the country's multiple ethnic civil wars.
Ms Suu Kyi, who was herself locked up by the former junta for a total of 15 years, remains hugely popular in Burma and her National League for Democracy party is widely expected to win the elections, if they are free and fair.
The opposition leader called for all of the Burmese people to be included in the reform process, warning that otherwise the changes could be jeopardised.
"If the people feel that they're included in this reform process then it will not be reversible - or at least it will not be easily reversible," she said.
"But if there are too many people who feel excluded then the dangers of a reversal of the situation would be very great," she added.

“HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH” Saudi Arabia school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law

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WHERE IS SO CALLED HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH??

The Arabic school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law

Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian schools teach children how to cut off a thief’s hands and feet under Sharia law, it has emerged.
The shocking books, paid for and printed by the Saudi government, also tell teenagers that Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be ‘put to death’.
Recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C., which says they should raise fears in the West over the use of jihadist language.

Shame on Human Rights Watch – Who finance you? 

A delegation from Human Rights Watch was recently in Saudi Arabia. To investigate the mistreatment of women under Saudi Law? To campaign for the rights of homosexuals, subject to the death penalty in Saudi Arabia? To protest the lack of religious freedom in the Saudi Kingdom? To issue a report on Saudi political prisoners?

No, no, no, and no. The delegation arrived to raise money from wealthy Saudis by highlighting HRW’s demonization of Israel. An HRW spokesperson, Sarah Leah Whitson, highlighted HRW’s battles with “pro-Israel pressure groups in the US, the European Union and the United Nations.” (Was Ms. Whitson required to wear a burkha, or are exceptions made for visiting anti-Israel “human rights” activists”? Driving a car, no doubt, was out of the question.)  

Extreme Ironing

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For most ironing is one of those boring chores we tend to put off doing - but for one teenager ironing has become something of an extreme sport. Kevin Krupitzer, 17, has turned the mundane into the insane by taking his ironing board to the most extraordinary of locations, from the edge of cliff to on board a canoe. The daring teenager travels around his hometown of Gilbert, Arizona in search of the weirdest places to iron. And he has even climbed to the top of a 120ft high rock, dubbed the Totem Pole in Queen Creek Canyon, AZ in pursuit of his bizarre hobby.

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Some 100,000 Christians killed per year over faith, Vatican says

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Christians Targeted in Deadly Egypt Blast
A car exploded last November in front of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt, as worshipers emerge from a New Year's Mass, killing more than 20 people and prompting a clash with Muslims at a nearby mosque


A staggering 100,000 Christians are killed annually because of their faith, according to the Vatican -- and several human rights groups claim such anti-Christian violence is on the rise in countries like Pakistan, Nigeria and Egypt.
"Credible research has reached the shocking conclusion that an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year," Vatican spokesman Monsieur Silvano Maria Tomassi said Tuesday in a radio address to the United Nations Human Rights Council. 
"Other Christians and other believers are subjected to forced displacement, to the destruction of their places of worship, to rape and to the abduction of their leaders, as it recently happened in the case of Bishops Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji, in Aleppo [Syria]," Tomassi said.
While several human rights groups could not comment specifically on the Vatican's number, organizations, like Persecution.Org, said the persecutions of Christians have been on the rise in places like Africa and the Middle East over the last decade.
"Two-hundred million Christians currently live under persecution. It’s absolutely on the rise," Jeff King, the group's president, told FoxNews.com.
"It’s easing in the old Communist world and it's rising in the Islamic world," King said, noting in particular countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Nigeria. King said that the first major killing spree in recent years happened between 1998 and 2003, when he claims 10,000 Christians were murdered in Indonesia alone during those years.
Last March, a Nigerian Christian leader was killed when suspected Muslim militants burst into his home and shot him. Two members of Islamic militant group Boko Haram shot Faye Pama Mysa, a Pentecostal pastor and secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, in his home Wednesday, according to multiple reports. The killing happened just after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency because of ongoing attacks in Africa's most populous nation.
King spoke of another example in which young Christian girls were forced into sex slavery in Bangladesh. More than 140 children were rescued from Islamic training centers over the last year -- with the majority of girls being targeted because of their religion, according to King.


John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity International, has raised grave concerns over what he calls "religious cleansing" in Syria.
"Religious minorities are under constant threat in Syria," Eibner told FoxNews.com. "If things continue as they have been for the past two years in Syria, with an increase in religious cleansing, it's reasonable to think that there will be no more Christian communities or other religious minorities in the near future."  
"Anti-Christian violence is on the increase throughout the world, especially throughout North Africa and the Middle East," he added. "It's hard for me to say with precision what the numbers are, but without doubt anti-Christian violence is on the increase."
Dinah Pokempner, general counsel for Human Rights Watch, was not able to independently verify the Vatican's figure, but said, "I think there’s little doubt that every week, every day, someone in the world is being persecuted – even to the point of losing their life – based on their religion."
"Persecution is a daily event on the basis of religion," Pokempner said. "This persecution affects Christians just as it does Muslims, Jews, Bahá'ís and people of other faiths."
A spokesman with the Vatican could not be immediately reached for comment.
Jane Zimmerman, the U.S. State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said in a statement that: "While I’m unfamiliar with the methodology that was used to reach that number, we have certainly followed numerous cases in recent years in which Christians and others of many faiths have been attacked or killed on account of their religious beliefs."
"Whatever the numbers, no one should die for professing or practicing their faith, whatever that faith is," Zimmerman told FoxNews.com. "The United States firmly supports the freedom to profess and practice one’s faith, to believe or not to believe, and to change one’s beliefs. As Secretary Kerry said on May 20, religious freedom 'is a birthright of every human being.'"


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