US Congress hears of SPDC’s human rights abuses from a Karen woman
Posted on April 24, 2009
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Myra Dahgaypaw, a Karen woman living in the US has testified before a Congressional committee on human rights violations committed by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), as Burma’s ruling military junta chooses to be known.
She told the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, which is holding a hearing on human rights abuses in Burma, that the UN Security Council should establish an international inquiry into crimes against humanity committed by the junta.
Dahgaypaw described some of abuses suffered by ethnic minorities in Burma, including by her and her family. She explained how villagers are forced to flee their homes, and how the junta places landmines around villages preventing villagers from returning.
The Irrawaddy quotes Dahgaypaw as saying, “I urge members of Congress and the new US administration to support and push for a UN Security Council Commission of Inquiry into the regime’s crimes against humanity and system of impunity.”
Dahgaypaw is a member of the Karen Women’s Organisation and on the board of the Karen American Communities Foundation.
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