UNHRC resolves Burma to allow Paulo Sergio

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UNHRC resolves Burma to allow Paulo Sergio

Written on October 8th, 2007 in Humanitarian text

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Published on Nksagar, October 4, 2007.

… The UN Human Right Council, which held a special session on the human rights situation in Burma on Tuesday, passed a resolution that demanded the junta allow a special Rapporteur to investigate it.The resolution said it “strongly deplores continued violent repression of peaceful demonstrators in Burma, including beatings, killings, arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances.”

“The council calls on the government of Burma to allow Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights, to visit Burma and investigate the situation,” Aung Myo Min, a Burmese human rights activists, attending the special session on Burma at the council’s fifth meeting, told Mizzima.

The Burmese government last week resorted to a brutal crackdown on Buddhist monk-led protesters by opening fire on them in Rangoon and arresting more than 200 monks in midnight raids on monasteries.While the government officially admitted to about 10 deaths during the crackdown on the biggest anti-government protest in nearly 20 years of military-rule in Burma , activists said the death toll could be in hundreds if not in thousands.Sources in Rangoon told Burmese press agency that several bodies of monks have been found floating in the Rangoon River and the bodies bear evidence that the monks had been beaten to death …

… We are also worried on reports that the junta is destroying evidence of human rights violations, so even if the junta agrees to let the Rapporteur in, can he find the true facts,” Aung Myo Min asked.Pinheiro, who has been denied entry into Burma over the past two years, along with six other UN human rights experts on September 28, issued a statement condemning the Burmese junta for its brutal crackdown on protesters and called on the HRC to “show strong resolve in taking the steps necessary to restore respect for human rights in Myanmar [Burma]” … (full text).