Havel calls for world support for Myanmar opposition

Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, two other Nobel laureates and several other world figures called for increased international support for the Myanmar opposition led by Aung San Suu Kyi.In a joint declaration issued in Prague late Tuesday, they also called on Myanmar's citizens to reject the constitution that the ruling military junta put up for approval in a recent referendum.It was signed, among others, by Havel, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, and by two Nobel peace prize laureates; the South Africans Desmond Tutu and apartheid-era president Frederik Willem de Klerk."The military-run referendum will not bring democracy to Burma, nor will it help the Burmese people, who now are suffering not only from the authoritarian regime and poverty, but also from a grave natural disaster," said the text.

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