[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 768 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 768

Calling on the United Nations Security Council to immediately consider 
 and take appropriate action to respond to the growing threat that the 
   ruling State Peace and Development Council in Burma poses to the 
           Southeast Asia region and to the people of Burma.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2004

Mr. Gallegly (for himself, Mr. Lantos, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. 
  Crowley, Mr. Souder, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Pence, Mr. Smith of New 
   Jersey, Mr. Wolf, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Sherman, Mr. 
 Tancredo, Mr. Faleomavaega, and Mr. Green of Wisconsin) submitted the 
     following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
                        International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Calling on the United Nations Security Council to immediately consider 
 and take appropriate action to respond to the growing threat that the 
   ruling State Peace and Development Council in Burma poses to the 
           Southeast Asia region and to the people of Burma.

Whereas the ruling State Peace and Development Council in Burma, formerly known 
        as the State Law and Order Restoration Council, continues to refuse to 
        uphold the 1990 election results in which the National League for 
        Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won 392 of the 485 contested 
        parliamentary seats;
Whereas the ruling State Peace and Development Council in Burma has imprisoned 
        or placed under house arrest Aung San Suu Kyi on a nearly continuous 
        basis since 1995, most recently since May 2003 when she and National 
        League for Democracy supporters were violently assaulted by government-
        affiliated forces;
Whereas according to the Department of State's 2003 Country Reports on Human 
        Rights Practices, security forces of the ruling State Peace and 
        Development Council in Burma continue to commit extrajudicial killings, 
        rape, engage in torture, forcibly relocate persons, use forced labor, 
        and conscript child soldiers;
Whereas in December of 2003 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a 
        resolution expressing grave concern about the ongoing systematic 
        violations of human rights abuses occurring against the people of Burma; 
        and
Whereas the situation in Burma poses a threat to regional stability because of 
        the continuous cross border flow of illegal narcotics, trafficked 
        persons, and the unchecked spread of HIV/AIDS; because of the State 
        Peace and Development Council's reported efforts to acquire military 
        hardware from the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, 
        and North Korea; and because of the destabilizing effects of the flight 
        of over 200,000 refugees to Thailand and Bangladesh in an attempt to 
        escape systematic terrorizing by the Burmese military: Now, therefore, 
        be it--
    Resolved,  That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that the United Nations Security Council should immediately consider 
and take appropriate action to respond to the growing threat that the 
ruling State Peace and Development Council in Burma poses to the 
Southeast Asia region and to the people of Burma.
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