James Ross is the legal and policy director at Human Rights Watch, where he has worked since 2001. In 1991 he wrote the report ?Summary Injustice: Military Tribunals in Burma? for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. He spoke with The Irrawaddy about calls for the formation of a United Nations Commission of Inquiry into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma, which has been supported by the US, the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia