Japanese MP Ryuhei Kawada Releases YouTube Appeal Calls for Support for a Free Burma

Source: Burmainfo.org via Burmanet

Ryuhei Kawada, a member of the Japan’s House of Councilors (upper house), has released a video message on YouTube calling for people to join him in supporting freedom for Burma.

The video can be viewed at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdrGWt3Rkxk

A Japanese video was also released:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF1I-K-rkmY

In the video message, Mr. Kawada points out that Burma’s regime spends more than half of the state budget for its military, and that only a fraction of the state budget is spent on health.  Himself an HIV patient who became infected through tainted blood products, Kawada is shocked about the closure of Maggin monastery:  “These patients depended on the monastery because the military regime gave them no help.  I find it appalling that the regime would deprive these people of the monastery’s support and make them suffer more.”

For the full report, please follow this link: http://www.burmanet.org/news/2007/12/04/burmainfoorg-japanese-mp-ryuhei-kawada-releases-youtube-appeal-calls-for-support-for-a-free-burma/