NLD members urged UN to take action on Burma in a letter

DVB ( 11 November 2003 )

Rangoon Division NLD leaders and members including working committee members, women and youth sent a letter to the UN Security Council through Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the organisation’s special human rights envoy to Burma.

The letter urges UN to urgently take precautious measures on the political situation in Burma. It requests the UN Human Rights Commission to investigate into Dipeyin assault by forming an inquiry commission, to help set up a just legal system in Burma, push for the immediate release of political prisoners and substantiate the 1990 General Election.

The failure to intercede by the UN could lead to serious instability and political implosion inside Burma with the effects to the whole region within a couple of months because of the suppressed frustration felt by the people of Burma and the dire political and economical situation, according to a NLD youth.

The letter was given to Mr. Pinheiro personally by the NLD party members while he was in Rangoon recently.