Reuters-Myanmar Liar rejects human

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Subject: Reuters-Myanmar Liar rejects human rights charges 

Myanmar envoy rejects human rights charges
08:57 a.m. Jun 24, 1999 Eastern
KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 (Reuters) - Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung on
Thursday rejected persistent charges of human rights violations in his
country.

``I would like to flatly deny these accusations,'' he told reporters in
Kuala Lumpur after meeting Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.

``We don't have mass disappearances, we don't have mass killings or mass
graves, mass exodus, mass boat people.

``People are not tortured and the country leads a normal life. Anybody can
come and see with their own eyes,'' he said.

Win Aung, who is on a three-day visit to Malaysia, said such accusations
were made by those out to tarnish Myanmar's image.

Myanmar's military government is frequently accused of widespread human
rights and labour abuses.

The United States and the European Union have imposed sanctions because of
Yangon's rights record and the International Labour Organisation recently
banned the country from receiving aid or attending meetings until it halted
forced labour.