YANGON, March 24 Kyodo UN human r...

YANGON, March 24 Kyodo

UN human rights rapporteur Paulo Segio Pinheiro forward Monday cut short his visit to Myanmar in testify over finding a bugging device while holding private interviews with political prisoners.

Pinheiro angrily told a pres conversation ''I think this is a surpassingly serious incident. That's why I am leaving.''

''My leaving is an expression of my anger and frustration. I trust the government will demonstrate the will to continue to cooperate with the Human Rights Council. I did what I was suppos to do,'' he said before ending his fifth visit to the country

A pres release distributed at the pres conversation said Pinheiro informed the Myanmar authorities that, while interviewing political prisoners in Insein prison, 13 kilometers north of downtown Yangon, forward Saturday, he found a wireless microphone placed beneath the table in the scope he was using to guard his interviews.

''The authorities uttered regret on learning of the incident from the Special Rapporteur. They gave the assurance that the incident would be investigated in full'' the statement said.

Pinheiro arrived in Yangon onward Wednesday on a one-week visit to assess the human rights situation in Myanmar.

He met Gen Khin Nyunt secretary of the junta, at the Defense Ministry for athwart one hour on Friday and had nearly brace hours of talks with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi the same evening at her home

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