Burmese Brawl in Rights Committee

Published December 8, 2004

Asking Canada's help for Burma's tortured democracy, the country's prime minister in exile appeared as a witness at a parliamentary subcommittee last week. The PM was Dr. Sein Win and the committee was the House Subcommittee on Human Rights, chaired by MP David Kilgour. Dr. Sein Win's Dec.1 testimony followed the announcement two days earlier that Burma's ruling military junta has placed opposition leader Aung San...