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Article: UN committee approves draft resolution strongly condemning Myanmar junta's crackdown
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- November 21, 2007
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A U.N. General Assembly committee approved a draft resolution on Tuesday strongly condemning the Myanmar government's crackdown on peaceful protesters and calling on the military junta to immediately release those recently arrested and all political prisoners.
The vote in the assembly's human rights committee was 88-24 with 66 abstentions. The resolution now needs the backing of the 192-nation world body. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion.
The draft resolution calls on Myanmar's military government "to desist from further arrests and violence against peaceful protestors" and to lift "all restraints on the ...