Jim Carrey spoke to the United Nations Security Council yesterday urging them to stop all international arms shipments to Burma. He asked them to put pressure on the Burmese junta, the military rulers of the country now known as Myanmar, to end their lethal suppression of the pro- pro-democracy protesters as well as its detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
He appealed directly to Than Shwe, head of the latest junta.
There is nothing to defend if you have lost the faith of your people. It is already over.
To the United Nations Security Council members and especially to China and Russia who have resisted sanctions against Burma, he said:
This is a government that uses its weapons not in self defense, but against its own citizens.
The time has come for the United Nations Security Council to start acting less like a group of corporations and more like united nations.
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October 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
The UN virtually never acts. This actor is in a dream.
October 7th, 2007 at 6:55 am
diog: left radial nerve palsy…
i would like to thank everyone for their heart-felt prayers for me, first of all. I was correct. it was a nerve. gee, i hope it wasn’t me! lol. if that doesn’t make sense (and it doesn’t, lol), please don’t worry. they put a cast on my wrist from ….