Straits Times won't publish Dr Chee's reply to M M
Aung
The media, which the Minister
Mentor yesterday described as "credible", will not even give Dr
Chee Soon Juan his right of reply to a forum letter written by Mr M
M Aung (see the letter below). Below is Dr Chee's letter which was
faxed to the Straits Times yesterday.
To: Forum, Straits Times,
It seems strange that M M Aung feels that signing a petition to the
Singapore Government demanding whether it is selling arms to the
military junta and doing business with Burmese druglords is
exploitation of innocent people.
Analysts and experts have documented this insidious relationship
between the two regimes. Even European parliamentarians have
expressed their concern over this matter. Such information is
available on the Internet but, of course, censored by the state
media of Singapore.
As a Burmese-Singaporean, one would think that M M Aung would be
especially alarmed at such information as these weapons and funds
are used by the generals to commit their atrocities. And yet
instead of demanding answers from the Singapore Government, the
writer chooses only to praise it.
M M Aung also points out that the on-going signature campaign
outside the Burma embassy is unlawful. He forgets that in Burma, it
is also unlawful for the monks to protest in public. Has he
wondered why the only places in Asia that have not had public
protests against the killings in Burma are Vietnam, Laos, and
Singapore? The truth is that only dictatorships make it illegal for
their citizens to assemble in public because they fear the
people.
The reason why the SDP has chosen to collect signatures at St
Martin's Drive is because the embassy is the military's
representative office. What better place than for people to express
their outrage there? Notes have been posted on the entrance of the
embassy, candles lit and prayers said. The ambassador could not
have missed it.
It is curious that M M Aung has suggested that Peninsula Plaza be
the place for another petition. He may like to know that the
Singapore police have visited the building, stopping Burmese
nationals from surfing the Internet and ordering them to remove
their T-shirts with pro-democracy slogans.
If protests need to be conducted, let them be done openly and
boldly, not furtively holed up in some building. The former serves
the people, the latter serves the autocrats.
Chee Soon Juan
Secretary-General
Singapore Democratic Party
4 October 2007
http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/articleburmaprotest12.html
Straits Times, print Dr. Chee's reply lah, don't be a spineless
dog. 
PAP propaganda print, SDP, don't print.
F*ck off.
