Australia, Senate Motion Passed una

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Subject: Australia, Senate Motion Passed unanimously


Free Burma Coalition, Australia
The following Motion was adopted unanimously by the Australian Senate 
today.

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	Extract from the CURRENT SENATE
HANSARD Database
	Date: 29 March 1999  (03:30)
             Page: 3069


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Presentation


	

	Senator Bourne to move, on the next day of sitting

	That the Senate--

	(a)	notes:

		(i)	the tragic passing away of Doctor Michael Aris, the British Tibetan 
studies expert, humanitarian campaigner, and husband of Burmese Nobel Peace 
Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who died of cancer early on Saturday 
evening, 27 March 1999,

		(ii)	the refusal of the Burmese military junta, the State Peace and 
Development Council (SPDC) to allow Daw Suu Kyi to unconditionally travel 
to Oxford to visit her dying husband,

		(iii)	that this refusal amounts to a callous and cruel disregard for even 
the most basic humanitarian principles, as does the refusal of the SPDC to 
grant visiting visas to Daw Suu Kyi's two sons,

		(iv)	that the apparent change in the SPDC's policy in relation to Daw Suu 
Kyi's attendance at her husband's funeral is conditional on her giving up 
her people's struggle for democracy and human rights, and

		(v)	that the SPDC has reneged on earlier undertakings in relation to Daw 
Suu Kyi's freedom of movement, but, more particularly, that its refusal to 
allow the National League for Democracy (NLD) to form government after 
democratic elections means the SPDC cannot be trusted to abide by its 
undertaking that Daw Suu Kyi will be allowed back into Burma and retain 
leadership of the NLD; and

	(b)	calls on the SPDC to unconditionally allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to 
attend her husband's funeral in Oxford on Friday, 2 April 1999, and return 
without fear of retribution or `special' treatment.