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"For many years, Burma’s regime, the State Peace and Development Council, has shown a profound disregard for the human rights and democratic aspirations of the Burmese people." Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith told parliament recently.
Crimes against their people continue unabated in the eastern parts of Burma, with yet another International Human Rights Organisation citing recent brutality as evidence of genocide. Amidst this horror the regime continues to press for recognition and standing in the region at ASEAN.
This brutal dictatorship is not progressing towards democracy.
"Neither the referendum process nor its ultimate outcome signaled any intention by the Burmese regime to actually listen to the will of the Burmese people on their future. The referendum process itself was a sham." Mr Smith's statement on Burma continued. |
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China has ignored its commitment to improve human right and flouts international law, CSW UK said today. Amidst the prestige of the Olympics China chooses to deny civil and political rights to its citizens. Ordinary Chinese suffer at the hands of the authorities including lawyers, journalists, Falun Gong practitioners, Buddhists and Christians.
http://durrants.mediacoverage.co.uk/pr/35475689/aA7wNe7p |
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The tragedy continues in Burma |
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About half of those affected have been reached by aid agencies, yet the crisis in Burma is slipping from the headlines.
Ben Rogers reports from the Cutting Edge Burma Desk that the intervention has far from succeeded. "But then the moment passed and the world moved on. The ships sailed away, complete with their cargo of aid undelivered, and Burma fell off the news agenda. The corpses, however, of people and animals – killed either by the cyclone or as a result of the regime’s inaction – continue to litter the streets and pollute the waters."
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