A special report entitled "Time for UN Intervention in Burma/Myanmar: A Threat to International Peace and Security" is launched today by NCUB.

The report has two parts. Part (1) describes country report, historical report, and map of Burma. Part (2) illustrates military regime's policy on regional especially Thailand and Bangladesh, drug, HIV and regime's human rights violations such as Depayin incidents, child soldiers, raped cases, forced labor and forced relocation, refugee and migrant workers, arbitrary detention and so on.

The followings are extract from the 46 pages long report:

"Human Rights are integral to the promotion of peace and security," noted the secretary-general in his Reform Programme of 1997. The military regime's gross human rights violation is one of the top agendas in all of today regional and global meetings, forums, and conferences. Now it is the time for humankind alike to consider seriously how to prevent more prospective inhumane incidents in Burma.

Our report addresses the long-term and complex problems of Burma from two
angles: human rights and political. The military regime's policies threaten the peace and security of Southeast Asia in a number of ways: violent reactions to tensions on its borders with Thailand and Bangladesh, internal human rights abuses that embarrass ASEAN, economic mismanagement resulting in mass movement of people across its borders, civil war causing the flight of hundreds of thousands of villagers into neighboring countries, and a thriving drug industry that puts the people of neighboring countries and countries around the world at risk both of drug addiction and HIV infection.

Our report attempts to demonstrate that "the concern for humanity is at top of all national, regional, and global concerns." We strongly are willing to become an invaluable member of the international community. We want the international community to earnestly and effectively support our cause. We have the burning will to participate freely, actively, and fruitfully in the activities of the world's family such as peace, security, stability and etc. We do hope that the United Nations will help us to achieve our goals of freedom and self-determination.

Contact Persons : U Aung Moe Zaw (General Secretary NCUB) - 001-1-202-639 0639

U Bo Thaung (Member of Secretariat NCUB) - 66 -1- 274 7386