Burma: Promises of Change, But Abuses Continue

Burma’s new government showed signs of change in 2011, but failed to seriously address the still dire human rights situation in the country.
 

(New York) ) – Burma’s new government showed signs of change in 2011, but failed to seriously address the still dire human rights situation in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. The government followed up on this progress in early 2012 by releasing several hundred political prisoners.

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