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GOOD NEWS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS



GOOD NEWS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS
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By Julien Moe
22nd September 1999

When the dissident Burmese who are fed up with a regime too stubborn and
too  irrational  to defuse the political gridlock in Burma cannot give a
"carro"t to the Burmese generals,  a "stick" has to become a final recipe.
The Freedom Burma  9/9/99 student seminar held in Fort Wayne called for the
UN to prosecute the Burmese army authorities for the atrocities committed
against humanity. To de-seat  Burma from the UN has been one of the
resolutions passed at that seminar. Recently the dissident Burmese have
called for the UN to send in UN forces into Burma where there have been
rights abuses ubiquitously. Maybe the regime in Burma  reckons that the
dissident Burmese are dreaming. The truth is they are not but they are very
serious about  these campaigns to be carried out for the purpose of bringing
change to Burma, their native land.

The good news is that the United Nations is not what used to be in the past.
Yesterday Kofi Anan, United Nations secretary general, championed
intervention in response to human rights and humanitarian crises provided it
was backed by the Security Council.The Finncial Times reported that he said
nothing in the UN charter "preludes a recognition that there are rights
beyond borders". In the Burmese case the demand of the dissident Burmese
could be granted by the UN if the Security Council voted yes to the
intervention. What the secretary general said is quite relevant to the
Burmese situation. The Burmese regime has been violating human rights abuses
ubiquitously and the whole world knows it. The UN intervention on East Timor
has revived the hope among the dissident Burmese  to call for a similar
intervention in Burma. This gesture given by the secretary general has been
an auspicious sign for the democratic Burmese who have been trying to find a
solution to influence the Burmese situation under the tight control of the
military regime.  Now that the dissident Burmese have got a theory and an
initiation made to bring change to Burma. Persistence and unity will bear
the fruitful results.