EU RESOLUTION URGES UK TO USE PRESIDENCY OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO REFER BURMA TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

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"The United Kingdom should follow the recommendation of the Parliament of the European Union and use the presidency of the UN Security Council to press for justice and accountability for the people of Burma by referring Senior General Than Shwe and his military regime to the International Criminal Court. The denial of humanitarian aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis should serve as a wake-up call to the international community to the brutality and indifference of a military regime that for four decades has systematically used torture, gang rape of ethnic women, slavery, murder, mass imprisonment, and child soldiers to consolidate its power..."

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"LawKa PaLa - Legal Journal on Burma" - No. 30 (August 2008) - Burma Lawyers? Council (BLC)

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2008-05-27

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2018-06-13

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