The same principle applies to those who violate international law by brutalizing their own people. When there is genocide in Darfur, systematic rape in Congo or repression in Burma — there must be consequences. And the closer we stand together, the less likely we will be faced with the choice between armed intervention and complicity in oppression.
"ကိုယ့္ျပည္သူကို သတ္ၿပီး နိင္ငံတကာဥပေဒကို ခ်ိဳးေဖါက္ တဲ့သူေတြ၊ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ လုပ္ရပ္ေတြ အတိုင္း ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ခံရမယ္။ ဒါဖါက အစုလိုက္ အျပံဳလိုက္ လူသတ္မႈေတြ၊ ကြန္ဂိုက စနစ္တက် က်ဴးလြန္ေနတဲ့ မုဒိန္းမႈေတြ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ျမန္မာျပည္က ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမႈေတြ - ဒီလုပ္ရပ္ေတြအတြက္ တန္ျပန္ သက္ေရာက္မႈေတြ ခံရေစ့မယ္။
ဒီလူသားမဆန္တဲ့ မတရားမႈ လုပ္ရပ္ေတြကုိ ဆန္႔က်င္ဖုိ႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ႏွင့္အတူ ရပ္တည္ၾက၊ လက္တြဲၾကပါ။ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ပါက လက္နက္ၿဖင့္ ရပ္တန္႔ေအာင္ ၀င္ေရာက္ေၿဖရွင္း ေပးရမႈ (သုိ႔) ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမႈ ေတြ ရဲ႔ ေနာက္ကြယ္က ၾကံရာပါအၿဖစ္ ၿပစ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္းသူမ်ားအၿဖစ္ ရင္ဆုိင္ၾကရ လိမ့္မယ္လုိ႔" သတိေပးေၿပာဆုိသြား ပါသည္။
(သန္းေရႊ မိသားစုအတြက္ ေနာက္ဆံုးရက္ေတြ က သိပ္မက်န္ေတာ့ဘူး ၊ တိုင္းျပည္ရတနာေတြကို မတရားခိုးယူ ၾကြယ္၀ေနတဲ့သူတို့ရဲ ့ စည္းစိမ္ဥစာေတြဟာ ဘာမွ မတည္ျမဲဘူး။ သူတို႔ ရွာထားသမ်ွဟာသူတို႔ ပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင့္ရိွမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး ဆိုတာ ျမဲျမဲမွတ္ထားပါ။ ျပည္သူလက္၀ယ္ကို ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရိွေစရမယ္။ ျမန္မာ တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ား ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ဖက္က ရပ္တည္ပါ။ သမိုင္းမွာ မွန္ကန္တဲ့ ဖက္ကရပ္တည္တဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သာလ်င္ ေအာင္ပြဲခံတယ္။ မွန္ကန္စြာမရပ္တည္ရင္ အနိဌာရံုေတြနဲ႔ နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္ရမယ္။ သန္းေရႊ ေခတ္က ျပီးသြားပါျပီ။ )
Even as his administration begins a new policy of engagement with Burma's junta, US President Barack Obama warned in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Thursday that oppressive regimes face “consequences” if they violate the rights of their own citizens.
In his speech, delivered in Oslo, Norway, Obama specifically mentioned Burma as one of the countries where there is systematic abuse of human rights by the government and honored opposition leader and fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for her commitment to democratic reform.
Acknowledging that he has adopted a policy of engagement with the Burmese junta, Obama said that “sanctions without outreach—and condemnation without discussion—can carry forward a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.”
However, he also warned that the world could not afford to ignore threats to peace from regimes that menace their neighbors or their own citizens.
“Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war. The same principle applies to those who violate international laws by brutalizing their own people,” he said.
“When there is genocide in Darfur, systematic rape in Congo, repression in Burma—there must be consequences,” he added.
“Yes, there will be engagement; yes, there will be diplomacy—but there must be consequences when those things fail. And the closer we stand together, the less likely we will be faced with the choice between armed intervention and complicity in oppression.”
Obama also rejected the notion that governments must chose between promoting human rights and narrowly pursuing national interests, noting that “neither America's interests nor the world's are served by the denial of human aspirations.”
Peace, he said, “is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please; choose their own leaders or assemble without fear.”
“America will always be a voice for those aspirations that are universal,” said Obama.
“We will bear witness to the quiet dignity of reformers like Aung Sang Suu Kyi; to the bravery of Zimbabweans who cast their ballots in the face of beatings; to the hundreds of thousands who have marched silently through the streets of Iran,” Obama said.
“It is telling that the leaders of these governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other nation. And it is the responsibility of all free people and free nations to make clear that these movements—these movements of hope and history—they have us on their side.”
On Oct. 9, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee announced that it had awarded the prize to Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Obama said in a statement soon after the announcement that he would accept the award as “a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.”
“To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize, men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace,” Obama said at the time.
Meanwhile, Obama's National Security Adviser, James Jones, said in an statement issued on International Human Rights Day that the Obama administration would continue to call attention to the repression in Burma and Iran.
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, also said that the world needed US leadership to deal with human rights abuses noting that violations and genocide continue without resolution in Darfur, while in Burma, Suu Kyi still languishes in detention.
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said the US must never lose sight of the plight of those living under dictatorial regimes in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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