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Article: BURMA: ALLOW INDEPENDENT PROBES INTO HUMAN RIGHTS - U.N ENVOY
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- October 31, 2002
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BANGKOK, Oct. 30 (IPS) -- The U.N. human rights envoy to
Burma, Paulo Pinheiro, has asked the country's military regime to
permit independent investigations into human rights violations,
in the face of recent reports that sexual violence, rape and
conscription of child soldiers is commonplace there.
Human rights allegations "are not to be denied; allegations
are to be investigated," Pinheiro, the U.N. special rapporteur on
human rights for Burma, said at a press conference here
Wednesday. "There is a need to have credible, independent
investigations."
"That is the case in any part of the world, where you have to
have credible assessments," ...