If you have evidences of genocide committed by military regime please contact burmadigest@tayzathuria.org.uk
Burma Digest in cooperation with Interim Shan Government is collecting evidences of genocide committed by the military regime on all ethnic groups in
Burma.
The collection begins from now, and will go on over a period of time, and when we have collected a significant amount of strong evidences, we will send them over to the United Nations (Security Council).
As you know, UN Security Council is currently considering informally to take tough actions on
Burma’s military regime from the point of view that
Burma under military regime has become a threat to regional and international peace and stability. But we think UN Security Council should also consider punishing
Burma’s military regime on charges of genocide (and attempted genocide) as well.
Sao Hso Khampha’s endorsement ………..
(Sao khampha is the Head of Interim Shan Government)
For myself I agree with Burma Digest. I would even go further to suggest to extending this co-operation to others – Arakan, Chin, Kachin, Karenni, Mon, Karen & etc who have their own share of atrocities committed against them by the military regimes from BSPP onwards. But that could very quickly become unwieldy without proper organized procedures. However we are not alone – Guy Horton and Roland Watson of DictatorWatch have already begun the process.
Much data has already been collected and tabulated over the years such as those by Swan & SHRF with their report – Licence to Rape – that has caused a stir and caught the eyes and ears of the Nobel Committee – but these evidence need to be reviewed with a judicial eye and experience that will stand up in the International Criminal Court of Justice that the UN has no choice but to take notice and no members of the UN Security Council can veto without impunity from censure by World public opinion.
Unfortunately there are individuals and countries like those in ASEAN who are obstructionists in making excuses for the military regime in
Burma, for their own political, financial and economic reasons. What are hurdles for but to be jumped over, what are obstacles but to be overcome?
Khun Hom’s support…………..
(Khun Hom is the Foreign Affairs Minister of ISG)
As far as my judgement goes, Burma Digest should become the focal point for a regular feature on “globalized human right abuses in
Burma”.
By “Globalized” I mean to complement the idea to cover a wider region of the ethnic states. The news of the abuses can be highly selective in a manner that it would increase the impact and to reflect the unique character of the abuses.
Just imagine we have everyday hundreds of Human Rights abuse cases by Tatmadaw troops under 12 Divisional Commanders. For instance in
Shan
State alone there are 150 Battalions with more than 100,000 men involved. Corrupt practices are prevalent in all ranks and file for many reasons including shortage of supplies, abuses of power and authority, craving for power and position, racial discrimination and their sense of desperation for their own survival in a “foreign land”. The abuses could be in various forms such as extortion, torture, rape, murder, extra-judicial killings, intimidation, threats, looting and burning, plundering and corruptions in big scales ( including e.g., signature fees for a contract for Sen. Gen Than Shwe is 1% of the value of the contract).
Many SPDC officers feel it that way as if they were in a foreign land in
Shan
State. And it is rightly so. It has been a separate entity and administration for a long long time until 1962.
My suggestion is HRA should become a regular report in Burma Digest as a precurser for further legal actions in the near future. With this in view we can start the ball rolling with case study in
Shan
State as a joint project.
