Showdown Time - ILO sanctions loom as Burma spits defiance

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"Burma was on collision course in March with the one world organization that has the power to do real harm to Rangoon?s military regime. Days before the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization, or ILO, was slated to decide how to compel the regime to end its alleged widespread practice of forced labor, a senior government official in Rangoon told the organization in so many words: ?Mind your own business.? ...Scenes like this anger the ILO... The confrontational statement, by Rangoon?s Labor Department Director-General Soe Nyunt, was sure to fire anger at the ILO session in Geneva, where members of the Governing Body were considering how to react to Rangoon?s earlier displays of non-cooperation and open defiance..."

Creator/author: 

Jim Andrews

Source/publisher: 

"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 3

Date of Publication: 

2005-03-00

Date of entry: 

2005-08-29

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English

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