September 10, 2006

To United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the United Nations Security Council,

We are “the Student Generations Since 1988 (U.S Branch)”, who are carrying out long-term national interests for Burma (Myanmar).

We are writing to respectfully urge you to put the situation in Burma on the formal agenda of the United Nations Security Council and to pass a binding resolution requiring the restoration of democracy to Burma.

We warmly welcome the first two United Nations Security Council briefings, held in December 2005 and May 2006, on the situation in Burma. However, the briefings were only a first step, and we believe the increasingly unstable situation in Burma represents a threat not only to the people of Burma, but also to international peace and security; as a result, the United Nations Security Council has an obligation to pass a peaceful resolution.
There is great urgency in this request because the situation in Burma continues to deteriorate. As numerous reports make clear, Burma is ruled by one of the world's most brutal military juntas.

Abuses being committed by the military regime include:

1. The continuing detention of the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

2. Imprisoning and torturing opponents, including more than 1,100 political prisoners, thirteen of whom are fellow members of Parliament.

3. Using rape as a weapon of war.

4. Forcibly recruiting up to 70,000 child soldiers, far more than any other army in the world.

5. Causing at least 700,000 refugees, with more to come, to flee across Burma's borders into neighboring countries.

6. The SPDC Army has forced over 500,000 villagers from their land. These people remain in Burma as internal refugees. They live and barely survive in the jungles and mountains of eastern Burma. Their only desire is to return home and live in peace.

7. Burning or otherwise destroying 2,700 villages.

8. Forcing humanitarian aid organizations such as Doctors without Borders (France) and the UN's Global Fund on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, to leave Burma because the junta refuses to permit them to carry out their work.

9. Maintaining Burma’s status as the largest producer of illegal methamphetamines in Southeast Asia, causing devastation of individuals and families throughout the region.

10. Conducting a new military and brutal offensive against Burma’s ethnic Karen minority. The acts of aggression against the Karen include the shooting of unarmed civilians and children, burning villages, rape, torture, and mutilation.


In recent years the United Nations has employed many diplomatic initiatives in relation to Burma. Two consecutive envoys from the UN Secretary-General and four other Special Rapporteurs from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights have failed to elicit reform from the regime. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for democratic transition in Burma by 2006, but so far the regime has failed to respond.

The United Nations is not the only body to have failed in its attempts at diplomacy with the military junta. The European Union has sent “troika” missions representing the EU requesting change in Burma, again to no avail. Burma’s neighboring countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore have failed in bilateral diplomacy, and recent requests for reform from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been rebuffed.

The regime in Burma is clearly unwilling to respond to reasonable diplomatic requests. The responsibility for failure in these efforts lies solely with Burma's military junta, not with those government working to help bring peaceful change. However, the international community must recognize that this current impasse cannot be allowed to continue. It is now time for the United Nations Security Council to intervene. It has the power to pass a binding resolution requiring the regime to engage in genuine negotiations and begin a transition to democracy in Burma.

There is ample precedent for a Security Council resolution on Burma. The Council has passed resolutions on many countries, including Haiti, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Liberia, when internal breakdown was underway. In many of these countries the Security Council failed to act swiftly, resulting in many innocent lives being lost. This must not be allowed to continue in Burma.

The recent report, A Threat to the Peace, commissioned by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from the respected international law firm DLA Piper spelled out in detail the reasons why the Security Council should act, and the legal basis on which it can do so. The Havel-Tutu report proposes a multilateral approach at the UN Security Council that would require Burma’s military regime to work with the United Nations on a plan for transition. Since the report was produced, Resolution 1674 was unanimously adopted by the Council, giving further basis on which the Security Council can and should intervene.

At the December 16, 2005, United Nations Security Council briefing on Burma, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his deputy Ibrahim Gambari suggested the first-ever course of action on Burma at the Council. We support this recommendation and we urge the Council to adopt a resolution of the kind recommended by Mr. Havel and Mr. Tutu.

This resolution should:

1) Require the government of Burma to work with the UN Secretary General in implementing a plan for national reconciliation.

2) Request the UN Secretary General remain involved in the reconciliation process and require him to report back to the Council on a regular basis.

3) Urge the Government of Burma to ensure the immediate, safe, and unhindered access to all parts of the country for the United Nations and international humanitarian organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable groups of the population, including internally displaced people.

4) Call for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma.

Thank you for your attention to this most serious matter.

Yours faithfully,

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