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Mr President, the Burmese people continue to suffer extensively under inhuman repression practised by a long-lasting authoritarian military government. Thousands of political prisoners are subjected to mistreatment and torture and denied access to a lawyer or a fair trial. Burma holds the disgraceful record of having more child soldiers than any other country in the world.
It also holds the shameful record of having the world's only imprisoned 60-year-old Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi. On 19 June 2005, her 60th birthday, this remarkable lady will have spent a total of 2 523 days in detention.
Gross violations have been committed by the Burmese army against ethnic minorities, including summary executions, torture and rape. An estimated one million people have been internally displaced and several hundreds of thousands have fled to neighbouring countries. The organised violence exercised by soldiers against women, including young girls, in areas of internal conflict, is a well-known atrocity in Burma. Hundreds of cases have been documented, with a high percentage of these cases involving gang rape and, in many cases, resulting in the killing of the victim.
The ALDE Group has long supported Mrs Suu Kyi's efforts to bring democracy to her country, and we call for her immediate release from detention. In addition, my Group wishes to see an increased role for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border and a permanent UN Human Rights Monitor in eastern Burma to investigate thoroughly human rights violations. Furthermore, the ALDE Group will continue to urge the European Union to take every opportunity to put pressure on the Burmese junta to restore democracy in the country. We also support the tourist boycott of Burma and are in favour of the targeted imposition of economic sanctions on Burma in order to encourage a speedy democratic reform."@en1
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