Thursday 7 August 2008

Dictators and Puppets

By Jeg
(From Art of Patience FREE BURMA)

Burmese dictators, Singapore tyrants controlling activists to displace them

In the glorious island of Singapore were everything falls neatly in place, hard working Burmese living in the island do not fit nor match the Singaporean fixtures.

After the Saffron Revolution last September’07 activism around the world was hectic bringing Burma into the spotlight on their lack of human rights ignored by the Burmese junta.

In Singapore a group of young students, and workers participated in a peaceful and quiet march last November. In jubilation the Singaporean media had juicy news and proudly announced that the “marching was well behaved”, many Burmese accepted the praise without realising that punishment was being prepared to surprise the peaceful blameless protestors by the masters of deceit.

The Singaporean police took names and details of few protestors and politely thanked the protestors’ cooperation on the peaceful marching date.

The fraudulent referendum of the Burmese junta caused another gathering of legal voters wanting to cast their opposition to the referendum. On this May’08 the Myanmar embassy sent invitations to attend the polls, only to selective Burmese supporters of the junta. As the voting process was extremely slow the people started crowding St Martin's Drive in front of the embassy gate. As the embassy officials did not want the people outside to cast their vote they called the Singaporean police with the ploy that the crowd outside were “protesting in front of the embassy”. Local and international media attended the gates making the assembly more obvious. After the police clarified the situation at the gate, they allowed the crowd to remain conveniently in place as to record more names, personal details, photos and video tapes. The embassy video taped the crowd below as well. Of course these photos had been used against the Burmese making a hard living in the island.

After all, police matched all documents and started to trace who is the more proactive and do more functioning? As the police were provided with details by the protestors and voters they sent official letters to the protestors requesting to attend the police offices for further questioning. -See letter1 here

All this innocent and peaceful protesting has caused the indignation of sly Singapore, it can be assured that the Burmese dictators have a say on the present behaviour of the Singapore authorities affecting the living of ordinary hard working Burmese craving their human rights and freedom. This is how far the Burmese dictators can exercise their authority.

In Singapore working permit validity and passport expiry is different among the Burmese, each and everyone. Some of those Permanent Residenceship (PR) holders are granted PR status but re-entry permit is held up and people are kept waiting between four to six months unable to travel anywhere. The S-pass/Work-permits holder has sharply been stopped for renewal to further stay and/or works in Singapore.

Mr Preyed (name reserved) was one of the protestors, he applied for his working permit renewal with plenty of time which conveniently was rejected close to the expiration of his visa/permit and he had attended his questioning with the police.

During this time Preyed attended a meeting with a foreign embassy First Secretary and provided particulars of his case seeking asylum and or protection hoping for chances of returning into freedom where he could earn a decent living. On the same day at night time the police phoned him to attend a Friday meeting to acknowledge a warning letter that needed to be signed in front of the officer. Preyed thought things were improving little he knew that he was a game for the Singapore law enforcers. The police instructed him to re-submit a final application to MOM (Ministry of Manpower in Singapore) even though the permit was cancelled he was advised to do it again. This last application was rejected as well. -See Letter2 here

Preyed met with the UK, US, and French officials in Singapore. Unfortunately his time was due departing Singapore last 5 August at 9.30pm.

Together with Preyed, a just graduated student who left to Cambodia, Joe and two other Burmese, five all together left Singapore this week as their work permits and/or visas have been rejected. One of them had his passport confiscated by the Myanmar embassy and the MOM-ICA (Immigration Check-Point Authority) immediately demanded he presented his passport. Without a passport a person in a foreign country is an “alien” unable to identify himself.

Preyed sought asylum to UNHCR in Jakarta (Regional Representative), as the time given to him was only 2 weeks his application to the UNHCR failed to protect him. The UNHCR at Jakarta could not obtain a visa to travel to Singapore to interview him on time either.

His mobile phone was intercepted by Singapore officials he could not phone out nor receive calls making it impossible for him to get help from the UNHCR, a marvel, his phone started working when it was too late for him. Preyed’s movements were monitored by SP security agents until he left Singapore.

Reuters on 31 Jul’08 published that “The jobless rate rose to 2.3 percent in the April-June period after seasonal adjustments, compared to 2 percent in the previous quarter, the Ministry of Manpower said in preliminary data …”.(Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/asiaCompanyAndMarkets/idINSIN7672220080731)

Being the case that Singapore’s economy is troubled then it is understandable that the government need to smooth-out the foreign workers intake. The humane way to go would have been to advise the workers that their permits were not to be renewed, allowing them time to relocate themselves instead of running away like criminals in fear of ending in dear detention. The “procedure” of using the police to track them down since late January this year and issuing warnings for marching in a quiet and orderly manner is taxpayers wasted money but, Singapore is well known for their deceit not for their economy-brains. When a country’s economy declines is only because of mismanagement and it does not happens overnight, it takes months to 2-3 years to forecast minimum or deep slips.

This show us that the Burmese dictatorship war with activists abroad has just started and distressing to see that the Singapore government “expects” to be seen as a trustworthy authority when they are just puppets under the Burmese junta strings.

Singapore and the Burmese junta are not interested in human rights they prefer to play with humanity. Singapore and Burmese rulers are so afraid of sustainable freedom from what I have observed since the turn of the century.

Jeg
7 August 2008

4 comments:

Unknown said...

yes, What you say in the last paragraph is deadly true. Singaporean side says so big in last July Asian meeting in Singapore. Though their faces/situations are not same, their inners/approaches are in the same boat.

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