"The Burmese military junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) continues to exercise dictatorial control over the lives of the people of Burma as it has done with impunity for over forty years. The SPDC, under its various guises, routinely employs torture, rape, slavery, murder, and mass imprisonment as tools to consolidate its power and silence any dissent.2 These acts go far beyond a repudiation of democracy; they are crimes against humanity and war crimes, including grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions..."