For our activist group project, we wanted to raise awareness about the protests in Burma. There are monks rallying together to raise awareness of their fight for democracy and freedom of speech. The monks in Burma are peacefully protesting in order to spread the concern of the mistreatment of fellow Burmese citizens.
I discovered that this began August 19, 2007, less than two months ago. The Burmese military and the government shows no mercy and does not publically speak of what has occurred. They are told to shoot anyone on sight if they appear to be escaping. Children are now recruited to fight in the military because adults will no longer be a part of it. A boy told Human Rights that he was forced into the military at the age of 11. He was unable to resist or else they would kill him and the rest of his family. Children are now forced to fight and it is unfair as to how far the Burmese government will go.
Thousands have already been put behind bars and are constantly tortured and mistreated.
On our first official group meeting, we ran a couple of ideas amongst our group members and decided to do a form of a fundraiser. We did not know what would be the best solution to raise awareness, and decided that a concert will be the best idea. We are currently getting ideas together and everything else is still in the preliminary stages, but hopefully we can make this work within the month =)
http://www.witness.org
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