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Showdown Time - ILO sanctions loom as Burma spits defiance
The Irrawaddy On-line ^ | March 2005 | Jim Andrews

Posted on 03/25/2005 3:38:43 AM PST by LwinAungSoe

Burma was on collision course in March with the one world organization that has the power to do real harm to Rangoon’s military regime.

Days before the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization, or ILO, was slated to decide how to compel the regime to end its alleged widespread practice of forced labor, a senior government official in Rangoon told the organization in so many words: “Mind your own business.”

(Excerpt) Read more at irrawaddy.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: burma; forcedlabor; ilo

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