[Buddha-l] News from Burma: bludgeoning monks bythe'lone-tein

[jkirk]

Joy wrote:

I read the following
"Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said on Friday that Tokyo would
"urge the Myanmar [Burma] government to find out the truth about [Kenji
Nagai's] death". 

He said "at this stage we have not decided to suspend grant aid," but added
that they would watch how the international community responds in terms of
aid to events in Burma. 

New Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda described Mr Nagai's death as "really
deplorable", but said Japan needed to consult with other countries before
"hastily slapping sanctions". 

Japan has withheld some aid from Burma since pro-democracy leader Aung San
Suu Kyi was detained in 2003. 

But it funds emergency and humanitarian projects on a case by case basis,
and is one of the military regime's significant trading partners."
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7017636.stm

So it could be worthwhile writing to the Japanese Prime Minister. Does
anyone know the address? The best I found is this, but I expect there me
more precise information in the Japanese part of the website.
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment.html

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