The Young Progressives Southeast Asia (YPSEA) in Malaysia and the IUSY Asia Pacific strongly condemn the Myanmar (Burma) military regime’s use of brute force to crush the peaceful demonstrations of the Buddhist monks and Burmese people.

The brutal action had resulted in the loss of lives and the detention of thousands of freedom-loving people. YPSEA Executive Committee Member cum DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) Jenice Lee Ying Ha£¬ Prodem Coordinator Fithry and Dema representative submit a memorandum outside the Myanmar Embassy. The memorandum was received by the Ministry of Consular Ming Myint.
Around 40 people participated today's protest.

The statement is a joined statement of YPSEA¡¡& IUSY£®

1)Condemns the military regime and its brutal action against the peaceful demonstrators. They urged the military regime to respect human rights, especially the right to peaceably assemble, and urged the release of all the political prisoners immediately.

2)Calls on the international community to actively intervene and impose sanctions on Myanmar (Burma) military government until democracy and the full recognition of human rights is restored in Burma.

3)Calls on the the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs should pressure the Myanmar junta to stop all the violence against the people and proceed with the democracy plan. Further, the Foreign Affairs Ministry should condemn the brutal action against demonstrators and condemn the Chinese government and Russian government for vetoing the “UN Resolution for Condemning Myanmar”.

Both YPSEA and IUSY-AP express their disappointment with the Chinese government and Russian government who have ignored the abuses of the Myanmar military regime, the violence crackdown of peaceful demonstrators and the forcible detention of many social activists and their leaders who have been struggling for genuine democracy and freedom.

4)Strongly urges the ASEAN member-governments to impose political pressure and economic sanctions on the Myanmar military regime and to call for an emergency meeting to review the ASEAN membership of Myanmar.

5)Urges as well the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) to pressure the Myanmar military regime to stop all the violence against the people and stop the detention of the activists who are exercising their fundamental right to free expression. The YPSEA is a regional organization of young progressives aimed at creating political exchange and communication in order to promote democracy, equality and human rights in Southeast Asia. It was established in 2004 and was formally set up in 2006 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Its membership consists of progressive youth groups from Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia.Timor Leste currently have observer status.  Current YPSEA Executive Committee members are Jenice Lee Ying Ha (Malaysia’s Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth - DAPSY), Kodchawan Chaiyabutr (Student Federation of Thailand) and Wilson Requez (Student Council Alliance of the Philippines and the regional coordinator for the YPSEA). Member groups from Malaysia include Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth (DAPSY), Malaysia Student Movement (DEMA) and Pergerakan Rakyat Progresif Demokratic  (PRODEM).

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