Monday, May 12, 2008

Burma


I have been thinking what Pope Benedict said about the UN's duty to intervene to protect human rights. James Mawdsley on his thought provoking blog Ecce Mater Tua explores this a little, James knows Burma well, in fact he was imprisoned and sentenced to 17 years in jail there for distributing pro-democracy leaflets in 1999.
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