Date: Nov 17 2004
From: DVBUN demand release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi United Nations’ General Assembly has demanded the military junta of Burma, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to release the Nobel Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. The call for her release was made at the ongoing 59th General Assembly in New York. The UN also urged the junta to respect the result of May 1990 general election in which the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory, and to carry out democratic changes in the country. It also demanded the junta to form an independent organisation to investigate into 30 May Dipeyin (Tabayin) incident in which NLD supporters and leaders were brutally attacked, and to put an end to the practice of forced labour and systematic rapes of womenfolk by Burmese soldiers. Moreover, the UN demanded the junta to cooperate fully with its special envoy Mr. Razali Ismail and human rights envoy Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro. The exiled National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) UN representative Dr. Thaung Tun said the demands mean that the UN is no longer supporting the junta’s seven-point “roadmap” to democracy. He stressed that the UN’s decisions only empower the General Secretary to act on Burma but he added that the people of Burma themselves must also work harder for the emergence of democracy. DVB : 17 November 2004 More Burma News from this Month |
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