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Joseph P. Kennedy III: “I personally don't believe that the Burmese military needs to be trained to stop killing and raping and stealing lands…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2013
I personally don't believe that the Burmese military needs to be trained to stop killing and raping and stealing lands from people within their own country.
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Joseph P. Kennedy III
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy expresses skepticism about training the Burmese military given their human rights abuses.

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