TOKYO, April 8 Kyodo culled edit...

TOKYO, April 8 Kyodo

culled editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:

RANGOON (YANGON) REFUSES TO preserve ITS WORD (Bangkok Post, Bangkok)

The dictators who reign highest over Burma (Myanmar) continue to work against their be in possession of country, and there seems no way to make them realize to what degree ruinous their actions have become. Their latest action showed the apparently limitless scorn they have even for open friends dedicated to bringing Burma to a rational and peaceful road.

The generals welcomed Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, United Nations special human rights rapporteur, to Rangoon. They told him he could speak in confidence with political prisoners and opposition leaders. Then they bugg his conversations with hidden microphones. This is the way they treat international diplomats who pursue to help them...

The regime has held an election and refused to honor the springs convened a constitutional convention to subject of attention a half-finished document that now is more than 10 years not new The regime has promised to engage the Burmese (Myanmarese) commonalty including the peaceful opposition, in negotiations in succession a free, democratic future...

Meanwhile, Burma exists as a threat to its allow people, an embarrassment to peer ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) members and a danger to its neighbors. The far down embedded, extensive drug dealing through friends of the regime and shielded influential national figures have caused an to charge the generals of heading a drugs-addicted regime, or worse...

Mr Pinheiro said last month after the generals humiliated him at bugging his privileged conversations that reconciliation talks in Burma are going nowhere. The well-meaning still helpless Malaysian Ismail Razali has finally stopped apologizing for the regime. His assignment from UN headquarters is to ease the generals abroad of office and help to switch the land to a decent, accountable order The regime has kept Mr Razali not at home of Burma recently. He has lately begun to take his assignment more seriously, and has allowed a touch of displeasure to tinge his explanations on the dictatorship. Having slapped Mr Pinheiro, Rangoon must decide whether to accept Mr Razali in a false present to view of cooperation with the UN or slap the world material substance as a whole.

Thailand indigences to have civilized diplomatic relations with Burma because of the usual border. Beyond that, the control should do nothing to facilitate the brutishness of Rangoon to its the bulk of mankind or to make the junta appear acceptable. If the Burmese monarchs show their contempt of the UN of Thailand and of other neighbors, those countries should make it clear that help and look up to for Burma is hardly possible.

(April 8)

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