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Article: Human Rights Watch - Security Council Should Impose Arms Embargo on Burma
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
(New York) - The United Nations Security Council should impose and enforce a mandatory arms embargo on Burma because of continuing massive violations of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. India, China, Russia, and other nations are supplying Burma with weapons that the military uses to commit human rights abuses and to bolster its ability to maintain power.
"It's time for the Security Council to end all sales and transfers of arms to a government that uses repression and fear to hang onto power," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Instead of continuing to protect Burma's abusive generals, China and Russia ...