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NEWS - Myanmar Says U.S. Is Interfe



Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Says U.S. Is Interfering  (SOUNDS LIKE LAST YEAR'S

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NOTE: The comments below sound the same as last years comments and
gripes.  Do they know how many sources of information there is against
them?  Apparently not.

Myanmar Says U.S. Is Interfering

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's military government accused Washington
on Friday of interfering in its internal affairs
under the pretext of human rights and relying on ``unfounded facts from
unscrupulous sources.''

It was a response to the annual State Department report on human rights
issued a week earlier that included harsh criticism
of Myanmar, accusing it of civil and human rights abuses.

The introduction to the report says Myanmar's ``military junta ...
continued its highly repressive policies, targeting all forms
of dissent and intensifying its restriction of free assembly and
association.''

The report goes on to detail a wide range of other abuses against
dissidents and minorities in the country, which is also
known as Burma.

A press release issued Friday by Myanmar's Foreign Ministry said the
government ``categorically rejects the one-sided
assessment of the United States on the human rights situations in
Myanmar since it is based on unfounded facts and is
nothing more than a politically motivated document aimed at interfering
in the internal affairs of Myanmar.''

It said the latest U.S. human rights report neglects ``the positive
developments taking place in the country and does not
reflect the true situation of Myanmar.''