Burmese monks have called on European Union leaders meeting in Brussels this Thursday to bring Burma's military ruler Than Shwe before the international court for crimes against humanity.
The All Burma Monk's Alliance, activist monks who were reputedly involved in last September's anti-regime protests that were crushed by the regime, says Than Shwe should face trial for blocking relief supplies to 2.4 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis. The regime continues to limit the work of foreign disaster experts in the devastated Irrawaddy delta and the alliance says many victims remain at risk of dying from infectious diseases and starvation. Last month, the European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution saying the EU to open anti-dumping probe into US biodiesel ...
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Cyclone kills 4 in Burma, disaster declared ... regime should be prosecuted. The group's call coincides with the 63rd birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's detained democracy leader, who's been under house arrest for five years.
(Deutsche Welle)
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