Bruce Baird (Cook, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar:

(a)

remains under house arrest and incommunicado;

(b)

has been in prison or under house arrest for 11 of the past 16 years; and

(c)

is only one of over 1,100 political prisoners in Myanmar;

(2)

calls on the State Peace and Development Council of Myanmar to:

(a)

allow its citizens to peacefully exercise their rights to freedom of association and assembly; and

(b)

immediately and unconditionally release all people who have been arrested for the peaceful exercise of these rights;

(3)

notes that the UN Security Council has now placed Myanmar on its listing for review and encourages the Security Council to closely monitor the concerning human rights record of the current Burmese Government; and

(4)

expresses its concern regarding the 500,000 displaced people in Myanmar and the further 150,000 displaced people on the Thai border in refugee camps.

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