Questa foto è stata scattata in Myanmar e postata alla BBC News Asia-Pacifico. Di seguito il commento dell'autore, che ringrazio:
After shots were fired at Sule Pagoda, the crowd re-gathered and a small group of monks moved to the front. All the civilians knelt and said prayers while soldiers pointed guns.
Ho letto sul blog Web 2.0 and something else di un modo per protestare per quanto sta accadendo in Myanmar.
E' sufficiente seguire le istruzioni indicate in questo post del blog novaspivak.
Non che io creda serva veramente a qualcosa. In ogni caso effettuando una ricerca su google con il numero 1081081081234 sarà possibile vedere quanti bloggers hanno aderito alla protesta.
Qui di seguito la copia del post:
September 27, 2007
Help the People of Burma -- Post this Meme on Your Blog!
To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.
This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.
By passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this something we bloggers can do to help.
How to participate:
1. Copy this entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234
2. After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition.
Note: Google indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show up in the results.
Also note -- if you want an accurate count of the number of blogs that joined this petition, make sure you scroll to the bottom of the Google results and click to view results that were omitted because they were similar.
3. If you know how to add tags to your blog posts, add the Technorati tag 1081081081234 to your post as well. This will make your post findable sooner in Technorati.
THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US
There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out.
Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking.
I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.
The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule.
While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.
This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades.
It's an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence.
Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.
The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities.
Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue -- and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.
Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community.
As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.
If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.
Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence.
And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.
P.S.
Visto che nel post copiato si faceva riferimento alla creazione di un tag Technorati 1081081081234 dopo una repentina googlata ho immesso questo.
Technorati tags:1081081081234 Technorati tags:Attivismo Blog Censura Dittature Technorati tags:Internet Myanmar Umanità Free BurmaIl codice è stato prodotto da Turbo Tagger.
Ho trovato come fare leggendo questo post di Simply My Blog e l'indicazione di un paio di generatori di codice in questo post di Dario Salvelli che ringrazio.
