Burma Global Action Network - Messages of Support

Messages of Support

It received messages from Celebrities, politicians, and Nobel Peace Prize recipients.

  • A message of Support from Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel:

“I am thrilled to learn that so many young people, more than 350,000 so far, have so movingly responded to the Burmese people’s courageous struggle for freedom and dignity. You are their hope and ours.” - Elie Wiesel

  • From Yoko Ono Lennon, Issued via a Facebook.com group, "Support the Monks" Protest In Burma

"There is no way we will forget you. Now that your work of letting the world know is done, I wish you to stay alive in peace and health. The world desperately need your wise and gentle spirit. You help all people of this planet by just being. Please try to be alive for the world. I will try the same. With my deepest respect and love, Yoko Ono Lennon."

October 3, 2007

  • British Prime minister Gordon Brown - October 17, 2007,

To a delegation that included BGAN's former UK Coordinator, Johnny Chatterton:

"I'll do everything I can to help the people of Burma"

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