Joe Pitts: “our State Department should urge, as all of us should, the U.N. Security Council to immediately address the ongoing…”

“our State Department should urge, as all of us should, the U.N. Security Council to immediately address the ongoing conflict in Burma. Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains disappeared, and the military junta will not disclose her whereabouts. The so-called Burmese State Peace and Development Council, the SPDC, which is their name for the military junta, uses slave labor, child soldiers, and mass rape campaigns against the people, the exact opposite of bringing peace and development to Burma. Yet the SPDC is now lobbying surrounding governments to gain support for its rule. The Prime Minister of Thailand has created a road map for peace in Burma, but the plan leaves the brutal dictatorship in power. What will it take for the international community to act? How many political prisoners must be tortured and ethnic villagers brutally raped and then murdered? How long must somebody be held incommunicado before strong, decisive action against the SPDC is taken? Mr. Speaker, the international community must act now to help the people of Burma.”