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SOUNDING BOARD
Friday, December 27, 2002
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US probe corroborates rape reports in Burma. Now what?
Washington Post reports that a US State Department probe has corroborated reports earlier this year that Myanmar military officials have systematically raped ethnic minority women and girls, according to a declassified copy of the investigation report.
Nothing new. The world knows this already. What we are interested to know is this: now what? With US seem to be fighting 2 wars on the international front (Iraq and the North Korea - only if US can show the same resoluteness in its "war" with Iraq), it is undertable that less attention is being focused on this one. So while the world shakes in anticipation of an impending war with Iraq, and while the a diplomatic solution to the North Korean problem, the atrocities against women in Myanmar continues.
posted by Allan at 1:55 PM (GMT+8)
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