One of these is Burma, ruled by a regime that has put hundreds of elected MPs in prison and hundreds of thousands of its people into refugee camps. As I speak, there is a service of commemoration for Michael Aris, the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi. When Michael knew he was dying of cancer, we asked the Government of Burma to give him a visa so that he could say goodbye to his wife. They could not make even a simple act of human compassion to a dying man. It is because of their behaviour that this Government has stopped all support for trade with Burma and discouraged any tourism to Burma.
Some people say that human rights in other countries is none of our business.
We can have democracy and civil liberty for ourselves, but can turn a blind eye to how other governments behave and a deaf ear to the cries for help of their people. I find it offensive that the same people should insist on democracy and freedom for Europeans, but insist that we should do nothing to defend the same rights of the peoples of Asia, or Africa. Let's put a myth to rest. Your government has not sold weapons that would suppress democracy or freedom. We rejected every licence to Indonesia when the weapons might have been used for suppression.