Agenda Item 18: Effective functioning of human rights mechanisms (b) National institutions and regional arrangements "Foxes and chickens in Burma and Malaysia". "... A human rights committee was established a year ago by the regime in preparation for the establishment of a national human rights institution. Amazingly, the membership of the Committee reads like a "Who's Who" of human rights violators in that country. For example, Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt, [the regime's Secretary 1 and] the head of Military Intelligence is the chief patron of this Committee. [When he is not patronizing the Human Rights Committee], Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt spends most of his time directing the persecution of human rights and democracy activists utilizing arbitrary arrests, interrogation and torture. He also toys with the judicial system and officiates at religious structures that have been built with forced labour..."