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Agenda Item 9: Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world. "...While every prisoner release in Burma is welcome, I am extremely concerned that at the current rate [of releases], Professor
Pinheiro will have to travel to Burma for at least another 50 or 60 times before most of the political prisoners can be freed. I am
sure budgetary constraints would make such frequency of travel practically impossible. [In addition, the Burmese military
regime tends to "recycle" i.e. rearrest political prisoners for the sheer joy of releasing them in dribs and drabs.]..."
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United Nations
Date of Publication:
2002-04-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
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