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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 484 

Expressing the sense of the Senate condemning the military junta in Burma 

for its recent campaign of terror against ethnic minorities and calling 

on the United Nations Security Council to adopt immediately a binding, 

non-punitive resolution on Burma. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 18, 2006 

Mr. MCCONNELL (for himself, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. 

LEAHY, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. FRIST, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. 

LIEBERMAN, and Mr. REID) submitted the following resolution; which 

was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate condemning the military 

junta in Burma for its recent campaign of terror against 

ethnic minorities and calling on the United Nations Security Council to adopt immediately a binding, non-punitive 

resolution on Burma. 

Whereas the regime in Burma, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), reportedly threatened to abolish 

the pro-democracy National League for Democracy; 

Whereas recent reports indicate that the SPDC escalated its 

brutal campaign against ethnic groups in November 

2005; 


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Whereas reports indicate that the military operation has resulted in approximately 13,000 new internally displaced 

persons in Burma; 

Whereas reports estimate that approximately 540,000 people 

are now internally displaced within Burma, the most serious internal displacement crisis in Asia; 

Whereas the Thailand Burma Border Consortium reports 

that the military junta in Burma has destroyed, relocated, or forced the abandonment of approximately 2,800 

villages in eastern Burma over the past 10 years; 

Whereas refugees continue to pour across Burma’s borders; 

Whereas those forced to flee their homes in Burma are increasingly vulnerable, and the humanitarian situation 

grows more dire as the rainy season approaches; 

Whereas the United Nations Security Council was briefed on 

the human rights situation in Burma for the first time 

ever in December 2005; 

Whereas United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and 

Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim 

Gambari acknowledged the seriousness of the problems in 

Burma, and the Secretary-General’s office suggested the 

first-ever course of action on Burma at the United Nations Security Council at the December 2005 briefing; 

Whereas numerous efforts outside the United Nations Security Council to secure reform in Burma, including 28 

consecutive non-binding resolutions of the United Nations 

General Assembly and United Nations Commission on 

Human Rights, have failed to bring about change; 

Whereas there is ample precedent in the United Nations Security Council for action on Burma; and 


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Whereas Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains the world’s only 

incarcerated Nobel Peace Prize recipient: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate— 

2 (1) to condemn the military junta in Burma for 

3 its recent campaign of terror against ethnic minori4 ties; 

5 (2) to call on the United States and other de6 mocracies to continue to work with the Association 

7 of South East Asian Nations to promote democracy, 

8 human rights, and justice in Burma; and 

9 (3) to call on the United States to lead an ef10 fort at the United Nations Security Council to pass 

11 immediately a binding, non-punitive resolution call12 ing for the immediate and unconditional release of 

13 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all other prisoners of 

14 conscience in Burma, condemning these atrocities, 

15 and supporting democracy, human rights, and jus16 tice in Burma. 

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