Janelle Saffin (Page, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move—

That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

the 19 June 2008 marks the 63rd birthday of Nobel laureate and leader of the democracy movement in Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi;

(b)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been held under house arrest since May 2003, and periodically before then since 1989;

(c)

the Burmese military dictatorship has refused to acknowledge the results of the 1990 election, in which the National League for Democracy of which Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was General Secretary, won an overwhelming majority; and

(d)

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has refused a number of opportunities to leave Burma, even to visit her dying husband, knowing that she would be denied the right to return to continue the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma;

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