{"id":48,"date":"2011-06-24T06:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2011\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-address-to-us-congress\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T06:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T06:46:00","slug":"aung-san-suu-kyi-address-to-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2011\/06\/aung-san-suu-kyi-address-to-us-congress.html","title":{"rendered":"Aung San Suu Kyi Address to US Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/uscampaignforburma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/DASSK-Message-to-House-Subcommittee-Heraing-June-22-2011.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> (.pdf) for a complete transcript.<\/p>\n<p>A key passage from her address, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/uscampaignforburma.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/22\/daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-gives-video-message-to-u-s-congress\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">U.S. Campaign for Burma<\/a>, is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cProfessor Quintana has spoken of the need for a commission of inquiry into human rights violations in Burma. I support his call for such a commission, making it quite clear that a commission of inquiry is not tribunal. It is simply a commission of inquiry to find out what human rights violations have taken place and what we can do to ensure that such violations do not take place in the future. I would appreciate everything that is done to help Professor Quintana in his work. Because, unless we respect the work of the Human Rights Rapporteur, I do not think we will be able to make much progress towards the implementation of the resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=%2FHabaEUwb%2FmTliLaCV%2FcsxjcKMip8T%2Bs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Become a member of the U.S. Campaign for Burma.<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-313399962095177359?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here (.pdf) for a complete transcript. 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