State-level Responses:
Question and Reply to the Danish Folketing (Parliament)
re. the systematically use of rape as a tool of oppression on civilians in Burma
Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Questions No. S 75 of October 2nd, 2002 in the Folketing to be answered in writing by the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding Burma.
Question No. S 75:
Is the Minister of Foreign Affairs acquainted with the extent of rape used as a tool of warfare in the oppression of civilians in Burma and does the Minister of Foreign Affairs intent to put it on the agenda in UN orelsewhere?
Reply:
The systematically use of rape as a tool of oppression on civilians in Burma does indeed give rise to concern in Denmark and in the EU.
The question has been raised by the EU, in dialogue with
the Burmese regime at several occasions, among these, in connection with
the visit of the EU Troika in Burma on 8th to 10th September 2002. The
EU are pursuing that this year's Human Rights Resolution on Burma in the
UN General Assembly, will contain amessage to the regime to take measures
against the systematically use of rape. The UN Ambassador on Human Rights
issues Paulo Sergio Pinhiero will visit Burma on October 12th to 22nd,
in order to, among other things, examine the use and the extent of systematic
rape.