Senate debates
Thursday, 13 August 2009
United Nations Commission of Inquiry
9:45 am
Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- notes that:
- (i)
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to a further 18 months of house arrest in Burma on 11 August 2009,
- (ii)
- this sentence will prevent her from participating in the proposed 2010 elections, and
- (iii)
- the constitution establishing election procedures is fundamentally flawed and fails to achieve basic democratic standards; and
- (b)
- calls on the Australian Government to investigate all possible options for progressing a United Nations Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
Question agreed to.