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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY NATIONAL CONFERENCE
RESOLUTION ON BURMA

Labor condemns continuing gross violations of human rights in Burma
including the draconian suppression of political freedoms, arbitrary
detention, torture, rape, disappearances, extrajudicial killings, oppression
of ethnic and religious minorities and use of forced Labor.
Labor further condemns the continued refusal of the State Peace and
Development Council - formerly the State Law and Order Restoration Council -
to accept the political verdict of the people of Burma freely expressed at
the democratic elections of 1990.
Labor deplores Burma's status as the world's leading producer of opium and
heroin, and expresses grave concern at reports of complicity in this trade
by Burma's military rulers.
Labor commends Nobel Laureate and Leader of the National League for
Democracy, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for her courage and determination to bring
freedom and democracy to Burma.
Labor calls on the State Peace and Development Council to cease its
repressive attempts to suppress political freedom in Burma, and to release
all political prisoners immediately and unconditionally.
Labor considers the only long-term solution to the situation in Burma is a
negotiated settlement firmly based on full respect for human rights and
calls on the State Peace and Development Council to open a genuine political
dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, representatives of the National League
for Democracy, and ethnic minorities.
Labor further calls on the State Peace and Development Council to fully and
unconditionally cooperate with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Special Rapporteur on Burma, and to cooperate unreservedly with the internal
community in efforts to suppress trafficking in narcotics.
Labor calls on the Australian Government to do all that it can, including
through the United Nations, to maximise international pressure on the
Burmese military regime and, in the absence of any significant improvement
in human-rights conditions and real progress towards the establishment of
democratic freedoms to:
ï?· actively discourage Australian trade with Burma, including closure of the
Austrade office in Rangoon,
ï?· discourage Australian companies from doing business in Burma, and ban new
Australian investment in Burma.
ï?· actively discourage Australian citizens from visiting Burma for business
and tourism.
ï?· suspend the issue of visas for visits to Australia by Burmese officials
and other persons associated with the military regime, and
ï?· put the State Peace and Development Council on notice that diplomatic
relations will be downgraded in the event of further deterioration of
human-rights situation in Burma.

Dated:  22  January, 1998.

THE HONORABLE JANELLE SAFFIN M.L.C.






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To: Recipients of burmanet-l <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: Radio Free Burma Web page


>Dear friends,
>Please visit Radio Free Burma  www.buzzlynx.com.au/rfb/  web page for a new
Pro Burmese
>Democracy World. Many thanks to Mr Wrightson Tongue for his assistance for
making this web
>page available to our cause.
>You now have a choice between Burma song page and this web site. Please let
us have your
>constructive comments and suggestions to rfb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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