State-level Responses:

27 March 2003: Question on "Licence to Rape" in European Parliament
MEP Marianne Eriksson has asked the Council to investigate the sexual violence committed by the military in Burma. The Burmese army is using rape as a weapon of war along the Thai-Burmese border. The Shan minority are most often the victims of these brutal tactics. Read more!

6 March 2003: Question on Notice: Foreign Affairs: Burma

4 March 2003 : Question on Notice: Foreign Affairs: Burma

11 February 2003: Question on Notice by Mr. Kevin Rudd, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Australian parliament on Licence to Rape

27 December 2002: "Report on the situation of human rights in Myanmar", submitted by Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Commission resolution 2002/67

17 December 2002: Rape by the Burmese Military in Ethnic Regions: U.S. State Department's statement: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Washington, DC

6 December 2002: Questions on Notice by Senator Kerry Nettle at the Australian parliament specifically on Licence to Rape

19 November 2002: UNGA Resolution on the situation of human rights in Burma

1 November 2002: Government of Netherlands' press release - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ)

9 October 2002: Question and Reply at the Danish Parliament

17 September 2002: US Senate's' letter of concern signed by 30 senators to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Investigate Rape Cases by Burmese Soldiers Over the Last Five Years

16 September 2002: United States House of Representatives' letter of concern signed by 48 representatives to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Investigate Rape Cases by Burmese Soldiers Over the Last Five Years

September 6, 2002: Mr. Kraisak Choonhavan, Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee of  Thailand calls for U.N. probe into Myanmar army rape accusations.

15 August 2002 : Press briefing : Mr. Kraisak Choonhavan, Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee of  Thailand.

2 July 2002: US State Department :  Myanmar Rape Reports Appalling

27 June 2002: Statement of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney: Mass rapes of women and girls in Burma

21 June 2002: Statement of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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