Bangkok, .- Several groups of Burmese democratic opposition today defended the importance of maintaining the sanctions that the United States, European Union and other countries have imposed a totalitarian regime that rules Burma (Myanmar). The EU has to decide in April on whether to uphold the restrictions.
"Sanctions were approved by the human rights violations. If the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and political parties in Burma to the U.S. and seeking truth Europe removed the sanctions, then they have to pressure the Board to stop violating human rights, "said U Dhamma Siri, the Burmese Monks Alliance, the report said dissident Mizzima.
The joint statement distributed in Thailand is initialed by the 88 Generation Students, the Federation of Student Unions Burma and Burma Monks Alliance. The call comes a day after the main Burmese opposition and Nobel peace prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, defend the same position in an interview with a German newspaper.
"Sanctions should be lifted only when something has changed," said Suu Kyi , who was released on November 13 last after seven straight years under house arrest, just six days after Burma held the first parliamentary elections in two decades, in which neither she nor her party attended by lack of democratic guarantees.
Burma is ruled by generals since the military coup of 1962. In last November's elections defeated the ruling party that led the prime minister, Thein Sein, a general who left the body a few months earlier to head the next civilian government in this new phase. General Than Shwe, who heads the armed forces and heads the military junta since 1992, has designed for his country a "disciplined democracy" in his own words. 
"Sanctions were approved by the human rights violations. If the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and political parties in Burma to the U.S. and seeking truth Europe removed the sanctions, then they have to pressure the Board to stop violating human rights, "said U Dhamma Siri, the Burmese Monks Alliance, the report said dissident Mizzima.
The joint statement distributed in Thailand is initialed by the 88 Generation Students, the Federation of Student Unions Burma and Burma Monks Alliance. The call comes a day after the main Burmese opposition and Nobel peace prize, Aung San Suu Kyi, defend the same position in an interview with a German newspaper.
"Sanctions should be lifted only when something has changed," said Suu Kyi , who was released on November 13 last after seven straight years under house arrest, just six days after Burma held the first parliamentary elections in two decades, in which neither she nor her party attended by lack of democratic guarantees.
Burma is ruled by generals since the military coup of 1962. In last November's elections defeated the ruling party that led the prime minister, Thein Sein, a general who left the body a few months earlier to head the next civilian government in this new phase. General Than Shwe, who heads the armed forces and heads the military junta since 1992, has designed for his country a "disciplined democracy" in his own words.
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