Tour of shame for Thein Sein | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
July 2013
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
OBL:77204

Myanmar's President Thein Sein travels to London and Paris this week, where he will meet British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande. Now that decades-long European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar have been lifted - with the exception of an arms embargo - trade and investment are expected to dominate the agenda.

But the focus should not be on trade and investment alone. Western leaders have a responsibility to address ongoing human rights violations in Myanmar. For a start, they should pressure Thein Sein to bring an immediate end to abuses against Muslims..."

in Rakhine State and call separately for an independent, international investigation into ongoing abuses occurring there.

Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Matthew Smith

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Asia Times is a Hong Kong-based English-language news website covering politics, economics, business and culture "from an Asian perspective". It is now known as "Asia Times" or "AT", and has dropped the "Online" part of its name. The website is a direct descendant of the Bangkok-based print newspaper that was launched in 1995 and closed in mid-1997.


Asia Times Online was created early in 1999 as a successor in "publication policy and editorial outlook" to the print newspaper Asia Times.

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