-It is difficult to say exactly what is happening inside Burma right now, says Marte Graff Jenssen, right, of the Norwegian Burma Committee. -Lots of unverifiable rumours are coming out every hour, but one thing is certain: At the other end of the current events, neither the country itself nor the world´s way of relating to it will be the same. (27-SEP-07)

Based on an interview with Graff Jenssen, information officer at the Norwegian Burma Committee, this article has been written by HRH F / Niels Jacob Harbitz. Photo of Graff Jenssen: HRH F / Harbitz.

All over the world, people are mobilising in support and solidarity with what is happening inside one of the world´s most introvert and isolatedregimes. In the course of only the last couple of hours, HRH F has received petitions with requests for our signatures, sms solidarity expression campaigns, and emails urging us to show up in as large numbers as possible on what looks to be a massive red t-shirt rally outside the Nobel Peace Center here in Oslo morrow afternoon.

-Tremendous response around the world. And people in Burma get to know
-The event will be filmed by the radio station Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) and broadcasted to millions of Burmese inside Burma. -What is different this time around, what gives us more hope than last time the Burmese people mobilised for change, is that we know that people inside Burma get to know of the tremendous response the different solidarity campaigns seem to be gathering around the world right now. Thanks to exile radio stations like DVB, broadcasting from Oslo, ordinary Burmese can listen to what is going on around the world for a full nine hours a day. Those who also have a tv set can watch DVB´s television transmissions 24-7. This is the only uncensored Burmese tv station, adds Graff Jenssen.

Massive rally in the making
-In Oslo, the Norwegian Burma Committee, together with the Campaign Committee for Burmese in Norway, Amnesty International, the Nobel Peace Centre and the Union of Trade Unions has called for a rally of solidarity outside the Nobel Peace Centre at the waterfront of the Norwegian capital city tomorrow, Friday the 28th. Graff Jenssen asks everyone to show up, if possible in red, at six pm. Among the speakers are Gunnar Stålsett, former Bishop of Oslo, Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Prime Minister of Norway, and Ågot Valle, Member of Parliament for the Socialist Left party. Wunna Thiri, monk, U Bo Thaung, parliamentarian and Yee Yee Thun, student activists, all three Burmese refugees in Norway, will also greet the masses with appeals to continue the support to their people.

-Share your surplus
-In the midst of all that is happening, we must not forget that Burma´s democracy activists also make severe material sacrifices for the freedom they now hope will be theirs, adds Graff Jenssen. -The activists and their families need food, medicine, shelter and other material support. The Norwegian Burma Committee has therefore appealed to Norwegian media to print adverts informing on how people can donate to the Committee´s current ´Democracy Now´ campaign. The campaign is run at zero cost, for all income to benefit those who have struggled for so long inside Burma to overthrow the brutal regime. If YOU want to donate, share some of your surplus at account number 5010 06 69428.