Canada wants sanctions against Burm

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Subject: Canada wants sanctions against Burma

  	  				 
	OTTAWA, March 13 (UPI) -- Canada is urging several countries to take  
collective action against Burma to pressure the military junta in 
Rangoon to move toward democracy and respect for human rights. 
	Foreign Affairs Department official Christine Stewart says, however,  
that Ottawa cannot act alone to impose ``sanctions against a country 
like Burma.'' 
	Stewart was speaking shortly after activists from the Canadian  
Friends of Burma demonstrated outside the Parliament building in Ottawa 
to urge the government to impost sanctions against Burma, now officially 
known as Myanmar. 
	In response to a question by an opposition Reform Party member of  
Parliament, Stewart said Canada is speaking with other nations, 
particularly those in the region, ``and we hope to be able to encourage 
them ... to take some collective action with us.'' 
	The objective is to ``try to influence the government in Burma to  
change (its) ways and promote good governance and democracy and respect 
for human rights,'' she says. 
	The demonstrators outside Parliament were commemorating the 9th  
anniversary of mass pro-democracy demonstrations in Rangoon, or Yangon. 
	Reports trickling out of Burma later said the junta reacted to the  
mass demonstrations with a campaign of repression and massacres.