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Rabu, 03 Desember 2008

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon rejected the application of 112 former presidents and prime ministers


UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon rejected the application of 112 former presidents and prime ministers to return to focusing on the issues of human rights violations in Myanmar and demanded that the exemption all political prisoners in the country. In the application that initiated by former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, the former state leaders from around the world that Bush urges Myanmar to ensure compliance invocation of the UN Security Council in October 2007.

UN Security Council [UN DK] had called Myanmar to release all prisoners, including Nobel Peace wholesaler Aung San Suu Kyi. In suratnya, the former president and prime minister asks Bush to return to Myanmar to reinforce the invocation given by the U.S. UN years ago.

Ban menyempatkan self visit to Myanmar in May and pascaterjangan cyclone Nargis and successfully coax Senior General Than Shwe to allow access to the arrival of disaster recovery supplies and social foreign officials. Ban has been Bondevik to convey his desire to visit Myanmar to discuss a number of issues. However, Bush will not explain the insistence of a number of former officials of that country without resolving the problem with the expectations of the reason for the strong support.

Some of the former leader of the country that signed the petition to Bush that are the former U.S. president George HW Bush and Jimmy Carter, former British prime minister Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and John Major, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi and former Polish president Lech Wałęsa. Petition was issued by the leaders Bondevick human rights body, Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and advocacy group based in Washington, Freedom Now.

Myanmar military in power since 1962 not tolerate the protest action. Myanmar junta has taken resolute action to eradicate protest action since launched a number of Buddhist biksu sense prodemokrasi demonstration in September 2007.

According to several international human rights bodies, the government of Myanmar holds more than 2,100 political prisoners or to increase sharply from nearly 1,200 political prisoners in June 2007, before the progress report feeling prodemokrasi September last year.

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