By Burma Partnership |
February 18, 2013
The
Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Tomás
Ojea Quintana, finished his 7th visit to Burma on Saturday and his report
highlights the grave human rights concerns in Burma today. The
escalation of conflict in Kachin State, communal violence in Arakan
State, the continuing detention and torture of political prisoners, land
confiscation due to development projects, restrictions on freedom of
association and assembly are among the poor human rights conditions
stated in his report. The scale of such human rights violations, in
spite of the reforms initiated by the government, emphasizes the
necessity of the role of the Special Rapporteur.
Many of the human rights violations that Quintana reported have a direct obstacle in the path of correcting these abuses: the 2008 Constitution.
The 2008 Constitution was written by the military without Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy or genuine representation
from Burma’s ethnic areas. It was described
by the 88 Generation
