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MAYANMAR:Take meaningful steps towards a democratic transition, peace and national reconciliation

17 February, 2012 - 12:04

16 February 2012

 

H. E. Dr. Surin Pitsuwan

Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

The ASEAN Secretariat

70A Jl. Sisingamangaraja

Jakarta 12110 · Indonesia

 

 

Your Excellency,

 

I write to you today  to share my lingering concerns about on-going human rights violations in Burma/Myanmar ahead of your mission to the country on 20 February 2012.

I would like to request that you use this opportunity to urge President Thein Sein and his government to take meaningful steps towards a democratic transition, peace and national reconciliation as well as to put an end to gross human rights violations in the country.

Thein Sein’s government has taken a number of indisputably positive steps since November 2011, when Burma/Myanmar was granted the chairpersonship of ASEAN for 2014. These include the release of close to[...]

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