Htin Kyaw -Former Political Prisoner

He is a leader of Myanmar Development Committee. He and his members did a several demonstrations in Rangoon asking for lower commodity prices. Please visit www.dvb.no to look at how Ko Htin Kyaw was brutally arrested. He was brutally arrested on August 25, 2007 for peacefully demonstration.

Past experiences:
He and his group did a first demonstration February 2007 before Theigyi market. Second follows in April 23, 2007 and third times in May 2007.

He lives in North Okkalapa, Rangoon.

The followins is his organization statment.

To

Senior General Than Shwe
State Peace and Development Council
Nay Pyi Daw
Myanmar
Date: ---- Feb, 2007

We present honestly the following dire situations in Burma/Myanmar.

1. Every commodities is skyrocketing - ( goes high up)
2. Electricity shortage for 24 hours - sometimes got it but not fully power in voltage
3. Children cannot go to primary school
4. Children are forced to do job for their survival with real small wages
5. Burmese women become losses character due to family economic hard ship ( sex worker)
6. Older people ( ELDELY) without homes become beggers.
7. Corruption is common for Government Service men.
8. Soldiers, policemen, Municipals, Fire brigade, members of Union Solidarity and Development Associations whose have bad character bully the people for their income.
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10. Youths wastes their time at various gambling because of jobless.
11. Wages are too low to meet with daily basic for a general worker.
12. It is very difficult to be a clerk for a person who got a university degree and who has no technical diploma or language skills. Government employee's salary is not enough for survival.
13. Family who has students cannot send their children to school because school fees are too high.
14. At every township in Burma, people are ignored even if basic health cares.
15. Even though state invented lubricant for transportation, it doesn't meet and apply in practical. As a result, people waste their time at the bus stops.
16. Because of security reason, majority of the people cannot go outside and as if people were under house arrest. Therefore after 10 pm, country is almost silence and country is look like ghost land.

Note: other developed countries are busy for 24 hours and people can make more income. (Time is money.)

17. The worst problems we face are:

People have no right to complain and suggest what is wrong and right.

People have no right to express their difficulties.

People always fear for being tortured and arrested by the current government.

Such kinds of fear made most of the people's economy, social and health care standard deteriorated and society is almost vanished like animals that already vanished from the world. In addition, continuing existence of Free Funeral Services, religious schools, hospital and clinics, market places and religious areas and cemeteries prove the people suffered.

Moreover, we think that not only above mentioned facts but new generation of us would suffer intellectual dead for other years.

Therefore, we presented this suffered to correct in time and it is the only SPDC who can initiate to restore peoples' right.