BURMA: Monks for liberty
“The New Yorker“ update us, in it last issue, on the Myanmar political situation. Human rights in this country has been an old concern for the international community and Aung San Suu Kyi is well known for her strong and courageos opposition against the militar regime. The major international human rights organisations, and even the UN, have issued repeated reports of systematic human rights violations in Burma. The United Nations General Assembly asked several times the Burmese Military government to respect human rights. In November 2009 the General Assembly adopted a resolution "strongly condemning the ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms" .
There is a broad consensus that the military regime in Burma, a very close ally of China, is one of the world's most repressive governments on our times.There is no independent Judiciary Power in Burma. The regime decided to ”finish“ with certain ethnic minoriries exercising ”burmanisation“, engaged children in the army, uses slavery, forced and child labour, human trafficking and promote all kind of human right violations. The military regime use sexual violence as an instrument of control, including rapes and taking of sexual slavery. A pro women's rights movement was organised abroad, along the Thai border and in Chiang Mai.
The Freedom House report ”Freedom in the World 2011“ says that "The military junta has long ruled by decree and controlled all executive, legislative, and judicial powers; suppressed nearly all basic rights; and committed human rights abuses with impunity. The junta carefully rigged the electoral framework surrounding the 2010 national elections, which were neither free nor fair. The country’s more than 2,100 political prisoners included about 429 members of the NLD, the victors in the 1990 elections."
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