The Burmese Community of France (CBF) is organizing a rally this Saturday in Toulouse. She wishes to warn about the situation in Burma since the military coup and calls for the release of political prisoners, including many doctors. It calls on France to recognize Myanmar’s legitimately elected government of national unity.
Members of the Burmese Community of France (CBF) will gather this Saturday, May 8 from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the forecourt of Toulouse Matabiau station. In support of the Burmese people and to call on the French government to recognize Myanmar’s newly formed and legitimately elected government of national unity.
Because the concern has been great since the military coup on February 1. According to the latest figures, more than 800 peaceful demonstrators have been killed and more than 5,000 civilians have been arrested. Among them, the nursing staff is particularly targeted. Arrest warrants have been issued for more than 200 doctors participating in the civil disobedience movement. More than 130 of them as well as health workers were arrested.
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“It is a disaster in terms of public health: we must treat the wounded and face the Covid epidemic. We are very worried”, testify Dr Jean-François Trinchero and Professor Jérôme Sales de Gauzy. These two doctors, anesthetist and orthopedic surgeon at the Children’s Hospital (Toulouse University Hospital), who have been working for more than 15 years for the development of pediatric surgery in Burma, have carried out numerous humanitarian missions there. “The news is not good, a thousand hospitals are closed, caregivers go into hiding. One of the surgeons we trained is in prison in Yangon, we know that he has been tortured, that he does not walk. more and that he is no longer able to speak. Every day, the army broadcasts on television the list of hundreds of people it is looking for … “, confide the Toulouse doctors. Saturday they will be on the forecourt of the Matabiau station to “denounce what is happening under the eyes of the whole world”
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“We have already demonstrated in Paris, Lyon and Pau. We must continue to talk about what is happening. We must release all political prisoners and allow caregivers to provide care to the wounded and sick without them being pursued or threatened with death, ”adds Stéphane Ferrer Yulianti, spokesperson for the Burmese Community of France.
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