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U.N. adopts human rights resolution against Myanmar

NEW YORK — The U.N. General Assembly adopted early Saturday a resolution strongly condemning violence against peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar and calling upon the military to respect human rights and fully cooperate with U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari.




The nonbinding resolution was adopted with 83 countries in favor, including Japan and the United States, with 22 countries against, including Myanmar, China and North Korea, and 47 countries abstaining from the voting.


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U.N. adopts human rights resolution against Myanmar
frontandcentre Click here to see all messages by frontandcentre Click here to see member profile (Dec 25 2007 - 16:05)Rate | Report
One of my main hopes for 2008 is that we will finally see the end of that odious, illegitimate and criminal regime in Burma. They should be given the sort of fair trial that all their victims have not been given, and then thrown into prison and left to rot forever

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