BurmaNet News Oct 2, 2003

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Oct 2, 2003 Issue # 2339

INSIDE BURMA
Washington Post: UN Burma Rebuffs U.N. Plea to Free Suu Kyi; Secretary
General Sees National Reconciliation Effort at 'Complete Halt'
Irrawaddy: UN Envoy Ends Mission
AFP: Aung San Suu Kyi tells UN envoy she is willing to work with Myanmar
junta
AFP: UN envoy sees Myanmar leader but barred from second Suu Kyi meeting

ON THE BORDER
AFP: Rights group fears for Thai-based Myanmar refugee doctor

BUSINESS/MONEY
Japan Economic Newswire: N. Korea tried to export missile parts, tech to
Myanmar: U.S
The Express: BAT Faces Probe Into Burmese Operation

INTERNATIONAL
The Age: Act Now, UN Tells Rangoon
Irrawaddy: US House Committee Discusses Burma
AFP: US keeps up pressure on Myanmar after UN envoy meets Suu Kyi

OPINION /  OTHER
Mizzima News: Burma MPs testify before IPU
NCGUB-USA: Testimonies of Burma Hearing at US Congress -- Oct. 1-2, 2003

__________________ INSIDE BURMA ___________________

Washngton Post, OCT 2
Burma Rebuffs U.N. Plea to Free Suu Kyi; Secretary General Sees National
Reconciliation Effort at 'Complete Halt'

U.N. special envoy Razali Ismail met detained opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi today, but appeared to have failed to persuade Burma's ruling
generals to free her immediately.

"No, nothing," he said when asked by reporters if he had any news to offer
after meeting with new Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, then with Suu Kyi, 58,
at the lakeside home in Rangoon where she is under house arrest.

He declined to comment further. A U.N. official, asked how the talks had
gone, would say only, "Fine."

Razali went straight from an hour-long meeting with Khin Nyunt, who
unveiled a "road map" to democracy in August soon after taking office, to
Suu Kyi's house on the second day of his three-day mission to put Burma's
democracy talks back on track.

Witnesses saw Razali's two-car convoy cleared through a police barrier
sealing off the road to Suu Kyi's home, then watched him enter the house.
They said he spent just short of two hours with Burma's democracy icon.
Suu Kyi was held at a secret location for more than three months before
going into the hospital for surgery. She has been under house arrest since
returning home Friday to recuperate.

She has spent more than half of the last 14 years under house arrest,
winning the Nobel Peace Prize while confined. A deal Razali brokered in
May 2002 freed Suu Kyi from 19 months of house arrest.

In a report issued Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged
Burma's military rulers, who call the country Myanmar, to free her again
quickly.

"The three-year-old home-grown process of national reconciliation, as
understood by the United Nations, has come to a complete halt" because of
the detention of Suu Kyi, he said.

"Unless the parties concerned are able to engage in substantive dialogue,
the international community will have to conclude that the home-grown
national reconciliation process no longer exists."

Khin Nyunt has offered few details of his "road map," and opposition
groups have dismissed it as a ploy to keep the military, which has ruled
Burma since 1962, in power.

It did not satisfy the West, and Khin Nyunt will have to face Burma's nine
partners in the Association of South East Asian Nations, ASEAN, which has
tried persuasion while the United States imposed sanctions, at a summit
next week.
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Oct 2, Irrawaddy
UN Envoy Ends Mission

UN Special Envoy to Burma Razali Ismail met military leader Sr-Gen Than
Shwe this morning and will leave Rangoon this afternoon.

"He has been pretty much tight-lipped and hasn’t had much to say," said a
reporter based in the capital who has been following the envoy’s trip
since his arrival on Tuesday. Razali did tell reporters that his meetings
had been "useful" and that he would report back to UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan.
Late yesterday, Razali met Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu
Kyi shortly after a meeting with Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt.
It has been a busy few days for the veteran Malaysian diplomat. This
afternoon, he met with several Western ambassadors and diplomats.
Yesterday, Razali held separate talks with the Rangoon-based ambassadors
from China and Japan.

He also met with several Burmese political groups, including the ceasefire
group the Kachin Independence Organization. Sources also said he met with
members of the National Unity Party, a group of former socialist party
members who were part of Gen Ne Win’s government in the 1970s and 1980s.
Many of his meetings have focussed on the Burmese government’s new "road
map". Khin Nyunt unveiled his seven-point plan for political progress at
the end of August, which announced a new National Convention to draft a
constitution.

Observers say Razali urged ethnic leaders to use the road map as way to
break the political deadlock.

"It seems to me that Razali has given up on dialogue [between junta
leaders and Suu Kyi]," a veteran journalist commented. After his meeting
with Than Shwe, observers expected the UN envoy would go and see Suu Kyi
once more in an exercise of shuttle diplomacy, but sources in Rangoon said
he had no immediate plans to meet with her again.

Razali also failed to persuade Burma’s military leaders to free Suu Kyi.
The pro-democracy leader is currently under house arrest.
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Oct 2, AFP
Aung San Suu Kyi tells UN envoy she is willing to work with Myanmar junta

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told visiting UN envoy Razali
Ismail that she is willing to work with the military junta on a new
national reconciliation process, diplomats said Thursday.

"Suu Kyi has said that she's willing to work with (Prime Minister General)
Khin Nyunt," said a Western diplomat who attended a briefing given by
Razali before he left Yangon after a three-day mission.

Khin Nyunt last month unveiled a seven-point "roadmap" to democracy in the
military-run state, which includes free and fair elections to be held
under a new constitution.

"She thinks that there could be some sort of working relationship between
them," the diplomat said of the newly appointed premier who is seen as a
moderate among Myanmar's ruling generals.

Razali, whose 11th visit to Myanmar was aimed at advancing the roadmap as
well as securing Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest, failed to
win her freedom during his talks with the ruling generals, the source
said.
Before being confined to her home last week, the National League for

Democracy (NLD) leader was held at a secret location for nearly four
months in a crackdown on her party which saw its entire leadership put
under detention.

"Aung San Suu Kyi told him that she wanted to be released with the others.
She doesn't want to be the focus of attention on a one-off release," the
diplomat said.

Razali said the Nobel peace laureate was "well and strong" after major
gynaecological surgery last week but would take another month to
recuperate.
Myanmar's junta is under intense pressure to free the 58-year-old
democracy campaigner before a Southeast Asian summit next week which risks
being overshadowed by the issue.

But Razali's prospects of getting her released were always remote, and his
mission was predominantly focused on promoting a reform initiative to end
four decades of military rule in Myanmar.

"The bigger thing is the implementation of the roadmap and whether the two
sides can work towards it," the diplomat said.

Razali successfully brokered landmark national reconciliation talks
between Aung San Suu Kyi and the junta which began in October 2000 but
collapsed with her arrest on May 30.

During his latest trip he urged the junta, the democratic opposition and
ethnic political parties to revive the reform process by taking part in
the first step in the roadmap -- a national convention to draft a new
constitution.

But there was disappointment that the military government did not give
Razali any indication of how the convention would be established or when
it would convene.

"There's nothing definite out of it, no timeframe," the diplomat said. "So
in terms of details we're no further along the track than we were before
the visit."

The NLD quit an earlier national convention in 1995 saying it was
illegitimate and unrepresentative because participants were hand-picked by
the government.

Despite that, and the government's refusal to allow Razali to see Aung San
Suu Kyi more than once this week, dashing his hopes of shuttling between
the two sides to try to revive contacts, the trip was not seen as a
failure.

"The good thing was that he had quite good discussions with both Khin
Nyunt and (leader Senior General) Than Shwe and he seems reasonably
optimistic that reconciliation talks will start again and that things can
be progressed."

"Maybe people's expectations need to be tempered. We're not going to get a
definite timeframe from the regime... they're going to move but they're
going to do it in their time and in their way."

The United States is maintaining unrelenting pressure on Myanmar's
military rulers to release Aung San Suu Kyi immediately.

"We very much remain concerned about the status of Aung San Suu Kyi and
the other political prisoners in detention in Burma," State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday, using the country's former name.

"We reiterate our calls that she and her followers be released and be
allowed to participate in the political process in Burma."

Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won 1990 elections that were never
recognised by the regime, was arrested on May 30 after her supporters were
brutally ambushed by a pro-junta mob during a political tour of northern
Myanmar.
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Oct 2, AFP

UN envoy sees Myanmar leader but barred from second Suu Kyi meeting

A UN envoy's visit to Myanmar ended in disappointment Thursday after he
met with its military ruler Senior General Than Shwe but was not allowed
to see opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi again before departing.

Razali Ismail spent 90 minutes in talks with Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday at
her lakeside villa where she has been under house arrest since last week,
after spending nearly four months in detention at a secret location.

The Malaysian diplomat, who also saw Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt
Wednesday, had hoped to shuttle between the two sides to urge them to
restart a stalled national reconciliation process.

But appearing subdued after the meeting with Than Shwe, he said he would
end his three-day mission Thursday without having another opportunity to
see the 58-year-old Nobel peace laureate.

"No there is no occasion for that," he told reporters. "It has been very
useful, as a UN representative, all these meetings. I shall submit my
report to the secretary general."

Observers said it now appeared unlikely that Razali had made any progress
in his goals of securing Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and
reinvigorating the peace process in military-run Myanmar.

"For the time being it doesn't look very positive because he hasn't seen
her again," said one Yangon-based diplomat. "There are so many things to
be discussed... I would be very surprised if this had been sufficient."

But they said it was significant that unlike some previous visits he had
held substantive talks with Than Shwe, who will ultimately decide the
future of the reconciliation process as well as Aung San Suu Kyi's fate.

"What seems positive is the meeting with "number one" which lasted an
hour, which is better than 10 minutes," the diplomat said.

Razali successfully brokered landmark national reconciliation talks
between Aung San Suu Kyi and the junta which began in October 2000 but
collapsed with her arrest on May 30.

He now faces the difficult task of reviving the contacts and advancing a
seven-point "roadmap" for democratic reform unveiled by Khin Nyunt in
August.
During his mission Razali has asked the junta, the democratic opposition
and ethnic political parties to support the reconciliation process by
taking part in the first step in the roadmap -- a national convention to
draft a new constitution under which free and fair elections would be
held.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) quit an earlier
national convention in 1995 saying it was illegitimate and
unrepresentative because participants were hand-picked by the government.

The United States is maintaining unrelenting pressure on Myanmar's
military rulers to release Aung San Suu Kyi, who was taken to her home to
recuperate after undergoing major surgery for a gynaecological condition.

"We very much remain concerned about the status of Aung San Suu Kyi and
the other political prisoners in detention in Burma," State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said Wednesday, using the country's former name.

"We reiterate our calls that she and her followers be released and be
allowed to participate in the political process in Burma."

Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won 1990 elections that were never
recognised by the regime, was arrested on May 30 after her supporters were
brutally ambushed by a pro-junta mob during a political tour of northern
Myanmar.
Since then Washington has piled steady pressure on Yangon for information
about the opposition leader and other detained NLD leaders, and introduced
new sanctions as a punitive measure.

Boucher said Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest had extinguished faint glimmers of
hope from the reconcilation process begun by Razali three years ago.
"There was some limited movement in that regard and then whatever there
was came to a crashing halt on May 30th," he said.

_____________ ON THE BORDER ______________

Oct 2, AFP
Rights group fears for Thai-based Myanmar refugee doctor

A respected Myanmar doctor providing healthcare to refugees along the
Thai-Myanmar border may be expelled from Thailand and her clinic closed
due to a crackdown here on migrant workers, a rights group said Thursday.

Regional group Forum-Asia said it feared Cynthia Maung, a Myanmar-born
doctor who won the 2002 Magsaysay prize -- often dubbed Asia's Nobel prize
-- would be thrown out of Thailand.

Thai authorities inspected her Maetaw clinic on Monday and told her she
should prepare for the deportation of more than 100 medics and teachers
whose work permits expired last month, the group said in a statement.

"This may include Dr. Cynthia herself. Although she has now lived in exile
in Thailand for 15 years, Dr. Cynthia has no official papers and is
effectively stateless," the statement said.

The warning followed the Thai government decision in August not to renew
the work permits of 12,161 registered migrant workers, it said.

"This action, if pursued by Thai authorities, will cause serious impact on
vital healthcare service for asylum seekers and migrants on the
Thai-Burmese border," the group said.

The Maetaw clinic treats 150 patients a day, delivers 10 to 20 babies a
month, trains 30 medics a year and provides prenatal checkups, childhood
immunisations and health education, Forum-Asia said.

Refugees and illegal immigrants cannot seek medical assistance in Thailand
unless they have appropriate identification.

The rights group fears for the safety and welfare of anyone deported back
to military-ruled Myanmar, where the ruling State Peace and Development
Council may "regard them as state enemies, which could possibly lead to
severe persecution and maltreatment including torture and execution," the
statement said.

"The SPDC has held a longstanding malicious opinion against Dr. Cynthia
and her staff, calling them absconders, insurgents and terrorists," it
added.

Cynthia Maung set up the Maetaw clinic in Mae Sot, a town on the
Thai-Myanmar border, in 1989. It now has an attached 80-bed hospital,
staffed by volunteers including six full-time doctors.

Besides the Magsaysay, the doctor has received numerous other
international awards for her humanitarian work.

An estimated one million illegal workers from Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar
are in Thailand, around 80 percent of whom are Myanmar nationals. Some
200,000 Myanmar workers were legally registered here last year.

_____________ BUSINESS/MONEY ______________

Oct 2, Japan Economic Newswire
N. Korea tried to export missile parts, tech to Myanmar: U.S.

North Korea tried to sell missile technology and related parts to
Myanmar's military government this year, but whether the transaction was
completed has not been confirmed, a U.S. government official said
Thursday.

The official nevertheless expressed grave concern over the activation of
military exchanges between the two countries that each continue to be
isolated from the rest of the world.

The United States is seen as increasing its monitoring of the North's
moves to proliferate missiles to countries other than Middle East states
and Pakistan with which it is already believed to have such dealings.

Washington could use the alleged missile transaction between Pyongyang and
Yangon as a tool -- along with the human rights issues involving the junta
-- to further pressure Myanmar to adopt democratic ways.

The transaction is believed to have come about due to the matching in the
interests of Myanmar, which wants to strengthen its military power without
depending on so-called Western countries, and North Korea, which wants to
explore new sources for acquiring foreign currency.

The U.S. intelligence community recently received advance information
concerning the missile transaction between the North and Myanmar, the
official told Kyodo News on condition of anonymity.

The official refrained from disclosing details such as the type of missile
involved in the deal, and said U.S. reconnaissance satellites have not
picked up any indications that the transaction has been completed.

The U.S. government suspects North Korea and Myanmar may also be
activating transactions of conventional weapons, the official said.

Myanmar severed ties with North Korea in 1983 following a terrorist
bombing attack on a visiting South Korean government delegation in Rangoon
(now Yangon) that year. The junta has promoted the name Myanmar for Burma
since 1989.

But it resumed military exchanges with the North in the 1990s after the
U.S. and European countries imposed economic sanctions on it for its human
rights violations, including the detention of pro-democracy leader Aung
San Suu Kyi.

Washington suspects North Korea is exporting Scud missiles to Pakistan as
well as to such Middle Eastern countries as Syria and Iran.
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Oct 2, The Express
BAT Faces Probe Into Burmese Operation

Cigarette firm BAT faced renewed pressure to pull out of Burma yesterday
as representatives of its UK workforce claimed its factory there was
breaching international guidelines.

Unions including the International Union of Foodworkers and Amicus MSF
filed a complaint to the Department of Trade and Industry. It alleged BAT,
whose deputy chairman is former Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke, was
breaching OECD guidelines which state multinational firms should respect
human rights.
Britain is one of 37 signatories to the code and the Government has said
it is an integral part of its policy. It will now have to examine whether
the complaint is worthy of investigation.

In July, BAT said it was considering its position on the Burma plant - a
joint v enture with the Burmese military dictatorship - after the British
Government asked it to pull out.

The Burma regime has placed elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house
arrest.

The unions claim the BAT board is split on the issue. BAT said: "The
Foreign & Commonwealth Office asked us to reconsider our position and
that's what we're doing.

When we make a decision, w e will make it public."

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Oct 2, The Age
Act Now, UN Tells Rangoon

Singapore -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for
urgent steps to restore democracy in Burma and accused the military regime
of derailing UN-brokered efforts to end the country's political crisis.

In an unusually blunt report to the UN General Assembly, Mr Annan has also
indirectly warned regional governments that they must do more to press for
democratic change before Burma assumes the chairmanship of the 10-member
Association of South-East Asian Nations in three years' time.

"The United Nations, ASEAN and the international community at large must
join hands in order to facilitate the democratic transition in Myanmar
(Burma) in time for 2006," Mr Annan said.

"The people of Myanmar have waited too long for change and the benefits
that change will bring. They voted for change in 1990 and they deserve to
experience the same benefits of economic, civil, social and political
development as their counterparts in neighbouring countries."

Mr Annan's remarks come amid signs of regional tensions over Burma before
next week's summit of ASEAN leaders in Bali.

Philippines Foreign Secretary Blas Ople has foreshadowed a tougher
regional response unless the regime agrees to release immediately detained
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

"Patience is running out, especially for ASEAN. There will be an external
force from ASEAN against Myanmar if Suu Kyi is not released," Mr Ople
said.

Indonesia, now ASEAN chairman, is also believed to be upset by the
regime's response to the visit to Rangoon last week by President Megawati
Sukarnoputri's special envoy, Ali Alatas, who was refused a meeting with
Ms Suu Kyi.

Malaysia is also expected to join criticism of the regime. Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad warned recently Burma could face expulsion from ASEAN if
the regime continued to defy international opinion.

But while newly appointed Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt is expected to
face a tough time in Bali, Thailand and several other ASEAN states close
to the regime are likely to oppose any public criticism.

Ms Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest at her Rangoon residence at the
weekend after undergoing major surgery. She has been in detention since
late May when a government-backed mob attacked her convoy in northern
Burma.

The regime recently announced it would resume drafting a new constitution
before a referendum and possible elections. But it has given no indication
it intends to include Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in the
process.

UN special envoy Razali Ismail renewed calls on Tuesday in Rangoon for Ms
Suu Kyi's release and a start to promised talks between the regime and its
opponents. But Mr Annan, who met ASEAN ministers in New York, said a
three-year effort by the UN to promote dialogue had "come to a complete
halt".

In a speech to the General Assembly, Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung
accused countries of failing to give credit for steps taken towards what
the regime calls "disciplined democracy" - code for the generals still on
top.
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Oct 2, Irrawaddy
US House Committee Discusses Burma

The United States House Committee on International Relations convened
yesterday to discuss human rights abuses and democratic progress in Burma.

"Human Rights in Burma: Fifteen Years Post Military Coup", painted a grim
picture of Burma’s future and called on international governments to apply
greater pressure on the military junta in Rangoon.

Michael Mitchell, from the government affairs consulting firm Orion
Strategies, said that dialogue between the military government and
democratic forces and the "constructive engagement" approach to dealing
with Rangoon—favored by Japan, Thailand and Malaysia—are both dead. He
recommended the international community enact "a comprehensive sanctions
scheme and further isolation of the regime."

The actions by Prime Minister Thaksin [Shinawatra] to close down offices
of Burmese democracy groups dedicated to promoting nonviolence and
collecting information on human rights abuses is alarming.

Mitchell also expressed dismay with Thailand’s Burma policy. "The actions
by Prime Minister Thaksin [Shinawatra] to close down offices of Burmese
democracy groups dedicated to promoting nonviolence and collecting
information on human rights abuses is alarming."

Notably, Mitchell suggested that Congress double the estimated US $6
million budget for "refugee assistance and democracy-building activities"
in Burma.

Bo Hla-Tint, an elected National League for Democracy Member of Parliament
and now a member of the exiled National Coalition Government of the Union
of Burma, criticized Burma’s road map plan. He urged the UN to propose its
own initiative and to discuss the Burma issue at the UN Security Council.

Also calling for a Security Council commission on Burma was Stephen Dun,
an ethnic Karen from the humanitarian assistance organization World Aid.
In addition, Dun requested financial assistance for Internally Displaced
People (IDP) and stressed the need for tripartite dialogue between the
NLD, the military government and ethnic nationality groups.

Naw Mu Si, an ethnic Karen from Refugees International, recommended that
the US pressure countries in Southeast Asia to cooperate with the US
sanctions on Burma and to earmark funds for IDPs. She also called on
Washington to pressure Thailand into allowing refugees from Burma to enter
the Kingdom.

Wunna Maung, an NLD Youth Member, also testified on the May 30 attacks
against the opposition in Depayin. He was riding in the convoy of NLD
leader Aung San Suu Kyi when it was attacked by government-organized
thugs.

Burmese activists in exile were upbeat about the hearing. "We are very
confident that the US government will increase funding for Burma’s
democracy movement," said Aung Din, policy director for the
Washington-based US Campaign for Burma. "But we don’t know how much."

Assistant Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific Lorne Craner and
Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Daley will testify before the
subcommittee tomorrow morning.

The hearing was originally scheduled for September 18, the 15th
anniversary of the coup that brought the current military regime to power,
but was rescheduled for October 1 because of a hurricane off the US east
coast.
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AFP, Oct 2
US keeps up pressure on Myanmar after UN envoy meets Suu Kyi

The United States Wednesday kept up its unrelenting pressure on Myanmar's
military rulers to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
even after a UN special envoy was allowed to visit her in house arrest.

"We very much remain concerned about the status of Aung San Suu Kyi and
the other political prisoners in detention in Burma," State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said, using the country's former name.

"We reiterate our calls that she and her followers be released and be
allowed to participate in the political process in Burma."

Earlier, the UN envoy, Razali Ismail, met the Nobel peace laureate at her
home for 90 minutes, becoming the first independent figure to see her
since she was shifted to house arrest last week after major surgery.

Since May 30 and until her hospitalization the 58-year-old opposition
leader had been held at an undisclosed location by the military
authorities.

Throughout that period Washington has piled steady pressure on Yangon for
information about Aung San Suu Kyi and her release as well as that of her
detained supporters.

On Monday, the State Department accused the junta of blocking US and other
diplomats from seeing one of Aung San Suu Kyi's doctors and of ignoring
requests for officials from the US embassy in Yangon to see her.

On Tuesday, the department called for the junta to allow a visit to Aung
San Suu Kyi by Razali, who is on a three-day mission aimed at securing her
release and restarting a national reconciliation process abandoned earlier
this year.

Razali had been a catalyst for those talks begun in October 2000 in an
effort to bring an end to Myanmar's political stalemate since 1990, when
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won a landslide election
victory which the military regime has refused to recognize.

Boucher said Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest after an altercation in which her
convoy was attacked by what Washington says were government thugs had
extinguished a faint glimmer of hope from that reconcilation process.

"There was some limited movement in that regard and then whatever there
was came to a crashing halt on May 30th," he said.

__________________ OPINION / OTHER ____________________
Oct 2, Mizzima News
Burma MPs testify before IPU

Representatives of exiled Members of Parliament from Burma today testified
on the human rights violations of the Burmese military junta before the
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)'s Assembly being held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The two representatives of Members of Parliament Union (MPU) from Burma– U
Daniel Aung and Dr. Myint Cho- are attending the 109th Assembly of the Inter-
Parliamentary Union from 1 to 3 October.

The MPU representatives have testified particularly about the situation of
Burma's elected Parliamentarians inside and outside the country before the
Committee of the Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the IPU.

The IPU, which brings together of 144 national parliaments around the world,
had passed resolutions in the past calling for the transfer of power to the
elected members of parliament in Burma.
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STATEMENTS

Oct 2, NCGUB-USA
Testimonies of Burma Hearing at US Congress -- Oct. 1-2, 2003

[Please use the links below or copy/paste them in your web browsers to
access the complete testimonies.  After getting to the screen, click on
the link that says “Hearing/Meeting Material.” —Ed]

http://wwwa.house.gov/international_relations/ithrhear108.htm

http://wwwa.house.gov/international_relations/aphear108.htm