Laura Bush speaks out on Burma (CNN) {Well, I'll be ...}

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From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

(CNN) – Former First Lady Laura Bush — who has kept a low profile since her husband's administration came to an end — is speaking out on a cause she championed while in the White House: the ongoing situation in Burma.

In a Washington Post op-ed set to be published in the paper's Sunday edition, Bush draws parallels between the events in Iran and Burma (Myanmar), and urges the United Nations to press the ruling regime there to end human rights abuses.

"In the past 21 months, the number of political prisoners incarcerated by the junta has doubled," Bush writes in the op-ed. "Within the past 10 days, two Burmese citizens were sentenced to 18 months in prison. Their offense: praying in a Buddhist pagoda for the release of the jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. That is only the tip of the regime's brutality."

Suu Kyi, under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, had been expected to be freed by the military junta last month, until the new subversion charge was filed. Suu Kyi is accused of violating her house arrest by offering temporary shelter to American John William Yettaw, who swam to her lakeside home on May 3. She said she doesn't know Yettaw, didn't know of his plans and didn't do anything wrong.
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Shame she never spoke out on the "ongoing situation" when the WH was illegaly occupied.

[Autumn]

1. I don't remember her

speaking out about human rights abuses. :shrug: Maybe I was asleep.

[madrchsod]

3. she did speak out about burma in the last few years of the dark age

i`m surprised she is still active.....

could it be to get away from the lump in the lazyboy?

[Autumn]

4. You are probably right

on that. I really like the way you phrased that "the dark age":toast:

[jeff30997]

2. Oh the irony.

[Mari333]

5. the irony is oozing like a fetid festering pus filled wound nt