In the Sunday Washington Post, an editorial castigated the UN, China, Russia, India, Thailand, the European Union and the U.S Congress for varying degrees of complicity or lack of action regarding the brutal dictatorship in Burma and the coercive elections about to take place there. The editorial noted that the Bush Administration has to its credit imposed harsher sanctions (with support from nations such as Australia, where Radio Australia has also accused Chevron of complicity in human rights abuses by investing in Burma.) Further, the Post pointed out that "A bill that would limit gem imports from Burma, again hitting the regime hardest, has been bottled up in Congress since last fall." The last free elections in 1990 resulted in the overwhelming victory of the National League for Democracy, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, whom the Burmese generals have kept under arrest ever since. Last fall, nationwide protests led by Buddhist monks led to a violent crackdown.

Should the U.S. Congress immediately pass the bill limiting gem imports from Burma, with the U.S. increasing pressure on other nations to stop complicity with the Burmese dictatorship and support severe sanctions—and are you also personally willing to support a boycott of goods and services from companies or countries, as best you are able, that are complicit in the now 18 year human rights nightmare in Burma?



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