In a press statement yesterday, Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman for the US State Department urges the UN to address the humanitarian and political situation in Burma.
The situation in Burma remains bleak. Violence against ethnic minorities continues, more than a million Burmese have been displaced internally or to neighboring countries, complaints of forced labor continue to emerge, narcotics continue to flow across borders, and the regime holds over 1,100 political prisoners in its custody, including Aung San Suu Kyi and other key civil society leaders.
The US will be pushing the UNSC to adopt the US backed resolution but of course China and Russia will be ready to veto if an official vote is taken, not to mention the what we can expect from the new nonpermanent members in the new year. The new blog Burma Review takes a look at what to expect at the UNSC in the new year.
