Burma: A case for global intervention
Source : BK Sen (Supreme Court Advocate,Burma),The Nation
Two separate news items in The Nation appeared almost side by side [September 8]. One was under the caption "Junta critics raise fears for Suu Kyi party" and the other "Push for global intervention."
I wondered whether the two had any connection. The backdrop was the first news item. The opposition leader Suu Kyi and leaders of National League for Democracy (NLD) had been forcibly put under solitary confinement in their respective homes and barred from all contact with the outside world since September 2, while the Rangoon Headquarters of the NLD remained closed under police guard. Secretary-Two Tin Oo of the SPDC raised the alarm and declared that NLD must be crushed. The official newspaper announced that the end of NLD was not far.
The second news item is the Canadian initiative about the establishment of an international commission for global humanitarian intervention. When asked if the situation in Burma warranted a case study for humanitarian intervention, the Canadian foreign minister replied in the affirmative.
The military junta has been ridiculing the international community ad nauseam. The challenge has to be taken up and the international community must come up with a solution for humanitarian intervention to prevent flagrant violations of human rights and the imminent danger to life and limb of the NLD leaders.