U.S. Policy Toward Burma

Testimony Kurt M. CampbellAssistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific AffairsStatement Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific Washington, DC April 25, 2012 Introduction Mr. Chairman, Mr. Faleomavaega, and Members...

BURMA’S PARLIAMENT:A TOOL FOR INSTITUTIONALIZED OPPRESSION

  · Despite the regime’s claim that an elected legislature was a crucial step towards the emergence of its “discipline-flourishing democracy,” the Parliament is turning out to be the regime’s key tool for institutionalizing oppression. · The pro-regime Union...