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A pillar of strength : Comments

By Julie Bishop, published 31/5/2012

It is to be hoped that the reforms under way in Burma and the role Suu Kyi has assumed in public life will create a momentum for change that will prove impossible to reverse.

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Pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese people she represents has been a source for inspiration to many other people living under oppression. Australia and other nations can help her and Burma to accelerate the reform process and achieve better social, economic and environmental outcomes by engaging with her and other reformists in Burma and by providing meaningful and high impact development assistance.

It is a good time for Australia to extend an invitation to Suu Kyi to visit Australia a.s.a.p. as well as for the Australian Foreign Minister and the Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs to visit Burma for talks with key stakeholders.

Aung San Suu Kyi has acted an excellent role model of how wise and humble leaders should focus on pressing unmet social needs at home and in the region.
Posted by Macedonian advocacy, Thursday, 31 May 2012 10:10:07 AM
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Yes Julie, Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese people she represents deserve their freedom and a better democracy,

What about your thought’s on the US government, the world’s second worst human rights abuser on the planet and the primary enabler of the worst, Israel?

American continues to focus its anger at Iran and Syria, two countries whose only issue appears to be their clever independence from the US.

The US peddles the “we are watching, and we will be holding you accountable,” yet no-one is holding the US, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel, or NATO accountable.

A cursory look at the US human rights report reveals it never examines the US.

In the meantime the US continues to violate the national sovereignty of Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan by sending in drones, bombs, Special Forces and in Afghanistan 150,000 US soldiers to murder people, usually women, children and village elders.

The US channels funds to the Iranian terrorist group, MEK, declared terrorists by no less than the US but its ok as long as MEK is terrorising Iran.

The US wants to overthrow the Syrian government to get rid of the Russian naval base. The US is also coordinating the flow of arms to Syrian rebels.

Last week in Malaysia a war crimes tribunal found George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes II, Jay Bybee, and John Choon Yoo guilty of war crimes, perhaps they should add Obama and Clinton and their advisors to the list.

Perhaps John Howard and Tony Blair could also be added to the list too!

I guess I shouldn’t expect a response eh Julie
Posted by Geoff of Perth, Thursday, 31 May 2012 1:10:26 PM
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Julie, it is admirable that you should laud Suu Kyi and hold her up as an example to us all. Certainly the evil Junta in her country has little to be proud of and it deserves condemnation.

Yet your party, similar to the LABOR party, lauds the U.S., the world's greatest warmonger and imperialist.

The U.S. has engaged in war ever since WW2 finished. It invades and occupies country after country and has killed millions. It has military bases all over the world.

It is now trying to sew up the South Pacific to contain China and is trying to get its drones onto the Cocus Islands and its warships and planes into Australian harbors and onto Australian airfields.

If you admire Suu Kyi peaceful efforts, how then can you support the U.S. and its endless warmongering and killing?

http://dangerouscreation.com
Posted by David G, Thursday, 31 May 2012 1:19:15 PM
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I think this is one layer of make up too many from *Julie* on an already fake face.

I would remind everyone that the majority of the turkey brains in Australia have voted for successive administrations who not only have legitimised the *Butchers of Beijing* but have additionally assisted them to arm up by providing them with abundant raw materials to do so.

And what have they done with their new array of armaments? Well, if we are to believe the publicly broadcast testimony of young *Harry Windsor* they have marketed them and sold them to our enemies, who have in turn used them to blow the legs and other bits of our troops and those of our allies.

And what else, well, they prop up other abusive dictatorial regimes like the Burmese sl.ORCS and their counterparts in N.Korea and Syria.

Oh what main stream politicians won't do for a buck?

And what else? Well, word has it they they armed the Sri Lankans to commit atrocities against the Tamils, and then when they in turn run to Australia in desperation to survive, dear *Julie* et al locks them up indefinitely without trial or charge and provides adverse security assessments for those with the temerity to use Australia as a funding base for further Tamil resistance.
Posted by DreamOn, Thursday, 31 May 2012 2:39:02 PM
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: A pillar of strength....lol....I go away for ten or so days, and all the wheels are falling off.

cc
Posted by plant3.1, Thursday, 31 May 2012 10:08:23 PM
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