Resolution 8: Ending impunity in Burma

Cairo 2009

 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF LIBERAL WOMEN

“Ending Impunity in Burma” or Stop Impunity in Burma

• Noting, what has happened in Burma since the 14th of May 2009, when Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy and the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, without democratic legal procedures.

• Noting, that since September 2008 there have been 2100 political persons imprisoned, children forced to be soldiers, over 3300 villages destroyed, sexual violence, extrajudicial killings and torture by the military authority going on.

• Noting that INLW on the 15th May, worried about the imprisonment and announced trial of Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi, sent a letter to the Chair of ECOSOC/Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, asking her to undertake every possible effort and influence together with Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, for an immediate release of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi.

• Noting that many institutions and political parties worldwide have presented statements on the imprisonment of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi by the military regime of Burma, also the Catalan Group in the Spanish Congress on the 19th May 2009, afterwards being adopted as a parliamentary institutional declaration of all parties calling on the international community to work together to demand the immediate release of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi and moreover calling on the military regime to enable Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate to run for the presidential election, which the regime announced for 2010.

Therefore:

• INLW calls on L.I Congress to take strong action and all measures in order to work strategically with governments, parties, organisations and lobbies to stress on the release of Mrs Aung Suu Kyi from the confinement in her home in Rangoon.

• INLW claims that the Security Council resolution 1820 (2008) of the United Nations to be implemented immediately in Burma to end the impunity towards the violations of the citizen’s human rights.