Burma: Act Now!

Published: October 4, 2007, 12:55 pm

Tags: asia, united nations, human rights, bush administration, burma, totalitarianism, amnesty international, spdc

A U.N. special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, has held talks with the totalitarian regime in Burma and has also met with Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate and one of the leaders of the pro-democracy movement in that country: [Gambari] had waited four days to see Gen Than Shwe before the chairman of Burma’s State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) made himself available. No details have emerged but Mr Gambari was intending to urge the general “to cease the repression of peaceful protest”, release detainees and embrace democracy and human rights, a UN spokesman said before the talks. The US called on the UN envoy to press upon the military the need for a “real and serious political dialogue with all relative parties”. The SPDC — i.e., the totalitarian military junta — has no interest in democracy and human rights. As I and many others have argued before, it will take tough international sanctions and above all the support of China and India, the two

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