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human rights groups further estimate that over 2,000 in-
dividuals have been arrested, imprisoned, or tortured as 
part of this violent crackdown; 
Whereas members of the international and Burmese media 
covering the protests, including a Japanese photo-
journalist, have also been killed, injured, or imprisoned 
by the Burmese Government; 
Whereas the Burmese military junta tried to hide from the 
world community its indiscriminate attacks on peaceful 
protestors by severely restricting the use of the Internet, 
phone lines, and radio and television equipment, making 
it extremely difficult to gauge the full extent of the gov-
ernment’s crackdown on Buddhist Monks and other 
peaceful demonstrators; 
Whereas on September 27, 2007, the United Nations Secu-
rity Council held an emergency session in response to the 
brutal crackdown and Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari 
updated the Security Council on the situation in Burma; 
as a result of the Security Council meeting, United Na-
tions Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ordered Special 
Envoy Gambari to visit the region; on September 30, 
2007, Special Envoy Gambari arrived in Burma and was 
able to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; 
Whereas the Burmese regime has mobilized all its resources, 
including armed soldiers stationed in all strategically im-
portant locations throughout the country, including reli-
gious centers, and has made it impossible for peaceful 
protesters to gather; 
Whereas the rapid growth of spontaneous demonstrations 
into the largest Burmese protests in the last two decades
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should not come as a surprise given the human rights 
record of the regime over the past two decades; 
Whereas the ruling military junta in Burma has one of the 
worst human rights records in the world and routinely 
violates the rights of Burmese citizens, including the sys-
tematic use of rape as a weapon of war, extrajudicial 
killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, as well 
as slave and child labor; 
Whereas the Burmese regime has destroyed more than 3,000 
ethnic villages, displaced approximately 2,000,000 Bur-
mese people, more than 500,000 of which are internally 
displaced, and arrested approximately 1,300 individuals 
for expressing critical opinions of the government; 
Whereas in 1990, the State Law and Order Restoration 
Council (SLORC), the military junta in Burma, which re-
named itself the State Peace and Development Council 
(SPDC) in 1997, nullified the victory of the National 
League for Democracy (NLD); 
Whereas NLD leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was not al-
lowed to assume the office of Prime Minister and was 
subsequently placed under house arrest; 
Whereas Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released in July 1995, 
yet once again placed under house arrest in September 
2000; 
Whereas following a second release, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
and several of her followers were attacked by a govern-
ment-sponsored mob on May 30, 2003, and she was then 
imprisoned at Insein Prison in Yangon; 
Whereas on May 16, 2007, more than 50 world leaders sent 
a letter demanding the release of Daw Aung San Suu 
Kyi, a demand repeated by United Nations Secretary-
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General Ban Ki-moon, 14 United Nations human rights 
experts, the European Union, the United States, the As-
sociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the 
foreign ministers of three ASEAN member states, yet on 
May 27, 2007, her detention was extended; and 
Whereas for her non-violent struggle for democracy and 
human rights, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi received the 
Nobel Peace Prize in 1991: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) condemns the despicable crackdown on 
peaceful protesters in the strongest possible terms 
and demands that the Burmese junta end its violent 
crackdown on dissent; 
(2) demands that the People’s Republic of 
China and other countries that provide political and 
economic support to Burma’s military junta end 
such support until the Burmese regime’s violent 
campaign against peaceful protest has ceased and 
the Burmese Government has fully met the political 
demands of the Burmese opposition; 
(3) firmly insists that Burma’s military regime 
begin a meaningful tripartite political dialogue with 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for 
Democracy, and ethnic nationalities toward national 
reconciliation, and the full restoration of democracy, 
freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, freedom
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of speech, freedom of the press, and internationally 
recognized human rights for all Burmese citizens; 
(4) demands the immediate and unconditional 
release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, detained Bud-
dhist monks, and all other political prisoners and 
prisoners of conscience; 
(5) calls on governments around the world, in-
cluding the nations of the European Union and the 
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to 
severely tighten their sanctions regimes against 
Burma, including through the imposition of import 
bans such as maintained by the United States, with 
the goal of denying the Burmese ruling junta with 
hard currency to continue its campaign of repres-
sion; 
(6) calls on the United Nations Security Coun-
cil to immediately pass a resolution imposing multi-
lateral sanctions on Burma’s military regime, includ-
ing a complete arms embargo, and to take other ap-
propriate action to respond to the growing threat the 
State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) poses 
in Burma; 
(7) calls on the United States Government to 
work with its global partners to bring to justice 
those Burmese military and government leaders who
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have ordered or participated in any massacre during 
or after the protests, or who may be guilty of crimes 
against humanity; and 
(8) calls on the members of ASEAN to imme-
diately suspend Burma’s membership in such organi-
zation as a response to the violent crackdown on po-
litical protesters. 
Passed the House of Representatives October 2, 
2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 200 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning the violent suppression of Buddhist 
monks and other peaceful demonstrators in 
Burma and calling for the immediate and uncon-
ditional release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.