Pandering to Burma while the killing goes on

This past weekend three near-simultaneous bomb blasts rocked Myanmar’ s capital of Rangoon at two shopping malls during a Thai trade fair, which were condemned by the Burmese opposition National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar’s junta has imposed a blackout on the news of the casualty toll, which could be substantially higher then first reported. Since 1996, more than 2,500 villages in eastern Myanmar have been destroyed and more than one million people displaced.

Fifteen years ago this month the Burmese people elected the National League for Democracy by an 80% majority. It was doomed to political annihilation when the present regime, the Orwellian-sounding State Peace and Development Council, seized power by force.

Even though Aung San Suu Kyi, the league’s leader, is under house arrest, her eloquent voice is still heard. Less so are the voices of the country’s ethnic national groups, who are dying in their thousands under the military dictatorship’s policy of cultural and physical genocide.

Genocide is a word I have felt obliged to use in the House of Lords after seeing village after village bombed and the systematic violation of human rights during the dozen visits I have made.

Last week’s television interviews with Karenni survivors of a recent alleged chemical weapons attack were compelling evidence of the regime’s brutality. These reinforced an investigation by my colleague, Dr Martin Panter, an Australian, who examined patients who had vomited blood and experienced blistering skin and pulmonary problems.

The catalogue of human rights abuses includes the shelling of civilians and using villagers as forced labour. Even elderly people have been forced to carry heavy loads of rice and ammunition…

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