Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 461 standing in my name for today.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate:

(a)

notes that:

(i)

19 June 2009 is Aung San Suu Kyi’s 64th birthday and also Women of Burma Day,

(ii)

the arrest and trial of Aung San Suu Kyi under the oppressive state protection law has the sole intent of extending her illegal detention,

(iii)

the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said that her 13 years of detention is illegal under international and Burmese law,

(iv)

thousands of villagers from eastern Burma fled to Thailand in June 2009 following military attacks on civilians by the Burmese army and allied armed groups, and

(v)

between 1996 and 2007 thousands of villages were destroyed, abandoned or forcibly relocated in eastern Burma; and

(b)

calls on the Australian Government to:

(i)

increase its diplomatic pressure on its allies for a UN Security Council resolution on Burma and apply pressure in other forums for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all 2 100 Burmese political prisoners,

(ii)

support a universal arms embargo against Burma, and

(iii)

refuse to endorse the outcomes of the election in 2010 unless the political climate improves in Burma.

Question agreed to.