A Buddhist monk involved in the September protests in Burma has called on the world community to stop supporting, recognizing and selling arms to the military-run Burmese government. U Awbata made his appeal at an international human rights conference on Burma in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

參加緬甸去年9月抗議活動的一名佛教僧侶呼吁國際社會不要支持、承認緬甸軍政府，也不要出售武器給該政府。這位僧侶是在印度尼西亞首都召開的一個國際人權會議上發出這一呼吁的。

U Awbata escaped from Burma into Thailand, last November, after hiding for nearly two months following a government crackdown against peaceful street protests led by his fellow monks.

僧人吳.奧巴塔去年11月從緬甸逃到泰國，緬甸軍政府鎮壓了那次僧侶領導的和平街頭抗議，奧巴塔在逃出緬甸之前隱藏了近兩個月。

U Awbata says the world community must not support Burma in any way and should support an arms embargo against the military government.

他說，國際社會一定不要在任何方面支持緬甸，而且應該支持對緬甸軍政府實行的武器禁運。

"As you have seen that the military generals have used their guns to kill and crush their own people, I would therefore like to appeal to the international community here today to work together and urge those countries selling arms to Burma to stop them from doing so," he said.

吳.奧巴塔說：“軍政府的將領用槍殺害并鎮壓它的國民，這是有目共睹的事實，因此我要呼吁國際社會共同努力，敦促向緬甸出售武器的國家停止這種行為。”

The monks took to the streets of the capital, Rangoon, in September, chanting prayers in peaceful protests against a sharp increase in fuel prices.

緬甸的僧人去年9月走上仰光街頭，吟誦經文，和平抗議燃油價格竄升。

Soon joined by ordinary citizens, the demonstrations quickly turned into the biggest anti-government protests seen in the country for nearly two decades.

僧侶的行動很快得到普通市民的支持，抗議行動迅速發展成為反政府示威，成為20年來緬甸出現的最大規模的抗議行動。

Soldiers opened fire and beat protesters with batons, killing at least 31 people, according to the United Nations. Thousands were jailed in an effort to stop the demonstrations.

軍人開槍并用警棍毆打示威群眾，聯合國估計，至少有31人在鎮壓中喪生。為了制止示威行動，政府還將數千人關進監獄。

U Awbata he does not know how many died after soldiers attacked monks at the famed Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon, but that he will never forget what he witnessed there.

吳.奧巴塔說，他不清楚在仰光著名的瑞光大金塔旁到底有多少僧人在政府的鎮壓中喪生，但是他永遠也忘不了他親眼所見的事實。

"I cannot forget," said U Awbata. "I cannot erase the sight that I saw on the eastern side of the Shwedagon Pagoda where three monks were shot at and when they fell down the soldiers used their boots and stomped on the heads of the wounded monks and beat them with batons."

他說：“我忘不了、也永遠都抹不掉我在瑞光大金塔東側親眼所見的一幕，有3名僧侶被子彈擊中，他們倒下以后，軍人還用皮靴踩踏受傷僧人的頭部，用警棍毆打他們。”

Many countries, including the United States and the European Union have imposed strict economic sanctions against Burma.

很多國家，包括美國和歐盟國家都對緬甸實行經濟禁運。

But many participants at the Burma conference want the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations to do the same.

但是很多參加緬甸問題國際會議的國家希望有10個成員國的東南亞國家聯盟也采取同樣的行動。

Debbie Stothard, the coordinator for the Bangkok-based human rights group Altsean, says ASEAN should consider sanctions against Burma instead of sticking to its principle of non-interference in member states' affairs.

總部設在曼谷的人權組織東盟替代網絡的協調員德比.斯托特德(Debby Stotherd)說，東盟應該考慮制裁緬甸，而不是堅持東盟的不干涉其他成員國內政的原則。

"We want a peaceful political solution for Burma, because a peaceful political solution will be good not just for the people of Burma but for the people of this entire region…we need the political will. We need ASEAN and Indonesia to prove it has political will," said Stothard. "Which means they will have to seriously consider sanctions.

她說：“我們希望通過和平的政治方案來解決緬甸的問題，因為和平的政治解決方案將不僅有利于緬甸人民，也有利于整個地區的人民。我們需要政治意愿，我們要求東盟國家和印尼證明它們有政治意愿，也就是說，他們應該嚴肅地考慮對緬甸實行制裁。”

Thursday, the United Nations special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, arrived in Burma to resume his mission to try to convince the military government to start talks with the opposition on political reform.

星期四，聯合國的緬甸特使甘巴里抵達緬甸，他的任務是繼續努力說服軍政府開始和反對黨進行政治改革的談判。

He arrives just a month after the government announced plans to hold a referendum on a new constitution on May followed by elections in 2010, a move Gambari called a positive sign.

甘巴里到緬甸一個月前，緬甸軍政府剛剛宣布，計劃在今年5月就新憲法舉行公投，然后在2010年舉行大選。聯合國特使甘巴里表示，這是一個積極的信號。