Issue Position: Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defense- Burma

Issue Position

After Cyclone Nargis devastated much of Burma and left more than 130,000 people dead or missing in May 2008, the human rights situation in this country deteriorated. In the days after the cyclone hit, Burma's isolationist regime delayed the entry of United Nations planes delivering medicine and rejected the United States' offer of assistance.

I believe the U.S. must continue to highlight the terrible human rights abuses occurring in Burma, including torture, forced labor, arbitrary arrest, child labor, rape and murder. I support the full range of U.S. sanctions against the ruling regime unit until it ends human rights abuses. I am proud of the efforts of activists throughout the United States and the world to draw attention to the plight of the Burmese people, and especially proud that the Free Burma Coalition had its roots in Wisconsin.

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