Stockholm/Oslo - Nobel Peace Prize laurate Desmond Tutu
Friday urged China to intervene in the ongoing confrontations in
Myanmar.
'China, you have leverage - tell those brutal men to stop their
brutality,' Tutu said during a protest organized at the Goteborg Book
Fair in the Swedish west coast city of Gothenburg.
Tutu said that if China did not take a stance against the military
rulers in Myanmar he would 'join a campaign to boycott the Beijing
Olympics' next year.
Other speakers at the protest included former Swedish Archbishop K
G Hammar and Swedish International Development Cooperation Minister
Gunilla Carlsson.
Earlier Friday, some 50 Swedish parliamentarians gathered for a
protest while celebrities and schoolchildren wore red shirts as part
of a global call to 'wear red' in support of the Myanmar opposition.
A chain of text messages as well as calls on blogs have spread the
message to wear red on Friday symbolizing the saffron-coloured robes
worn by Buddhist monks who in recent days have been targeted by the
military rulers of Myanmar.
Oslo is also base for the opposition radio station Democratic
Voice of Burma that broadcasts to Myanmar.
The station, which also broadcasts a few hours of television
programmes a week, was Friday to broadcast footage from a Norwegian
gathering organized by among others the Norwegian Burma Committee,
the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions and the Norwegian branch
of Amnesty International.
Speakers included former prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.
Union leader union leader Roar Flathen wore red Friday to show his
support for the democratic opposition.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur 
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