Dissident Groups Urge UN Not To Recognize 2010 Myanmar Election

(RTTNews) - The United Nations and the international community have been urged not to recognize the Myanmar elections scheduled for for 2010 unless all political prisoners including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi are released by the country's military junta.

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day (December 10), three dissident Burmese groups--All Burma Monks' Alliance, 88 Generation Students, and All Burma Federation of Student Unions--in a joint statement have asked the international community not to recognize the forthcoming elections in 2010 and to put more pressure on junta leader to hold a meaningful dialogue with the democratic opposition.

"We urge the international community not to recognize the 2010 election, if there is no release of all political prisoners, including the General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, no sustainable political dialogue with democratic opposition and ethnic minorities, and no national reconciliation first," they said in the joint statement.

It was on December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to observe the day as International Human Rights Day to remind the people that all human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms.

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