Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Official handover of the ABMA open letter to the German Foreign Ministry



On March 21 the monks Ashin Kovida and Ashin Sopaka presented the open letter by the ABMA to the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin.
Present at the meeting were Ko Aung Htoo General Secretary of Burma’s Lawer Council, Aung Thu from Burma Büro Germany, Michael Funk for the German Buddhist Council (DBU), Alexandra Rösch for The Best Friend International. For the German Foreign Ministry Theo Kidess from the Southeast Asia department, Dirk Sanders for the Human rights department and a deputy for the Human rights Ambassador of Germany attended the meeting.
Apart from the open letter we discussed Germany’s position on the moves to refer Burma’s military leaders to the international criminal court for investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity and Germany’s position regarding sanctions on Burma.
At the same time there was a silent protest in front of the Foreign Ministry as a reminder of the ongoing human rights violations in Burma.

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