ASEAN Targeted During Petition Tour…
A group of citizens, representing nearly 200 NGO’s and associations, continued a tour of several embassies initiated on January 23rd, to deliver a petition requesting the release of 23 people arrested during the violent crackdown by armed forces on striking workers this last January 2nd and 3rd (see HERE). After having given the petition to the Singapore embassy, the group was briefly stopped in its progress by riot police and the unfamous helmeted Municipal Guards. A deal was finally reached to let the group proceed to the remaining embassies or agencies by tuk-tuk. Petitions were delivered to the embassies of Brunei, UNDP, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam (no one there due to the Tet festivities), Philippines and finally China.
