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        "msgid": "myanmar-facing-another-sanction-1447893297",
        "date": "1995-02-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "Myanmar facing another sanction",
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        "summary": "Myanmar facing another sanction SYDNEY (Reuter): Australia said yesterday that Myanmar's military government faced possible exclusion from next July's meeting of ASEAN nations over its alleged continued human-rights abuses. Citing attacks on ethnic-minority rebels and issues of forced labor and political prisoners, Australia's foreign minister said a case could be made for barring Myanmar from the next Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting.",
        "content": "<p>Myanmar facing another sanction<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuter): Australia said yesterday that Myanmar's<br>\nmilitary government faced possible exclusion from next July's<br>\nmeeting of ASEAN nations over its alleged continued human-rights<br>\nabuses.<\/p>\n<p>Citing attacks on ethnic-minority rebels and issues of forced<br>\nlabor and political prisoners, Australia's foreign minister said<br>\na case could be made for barring Myanmar from the next<br>\nAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Gareth Evans also described as a \"charade\" moves by Myanmar's<br>\nruling State Law and Restoration Council (SLORC) to draft a new<br>\nconstitution.<\/p>\n<p>\"If the present situation continues ... then there may well be<br>\na strong case for Myanmar having even less status than it was<br>\ngranted last year,\" Evans told reporters. SLORC changed the<br>\ncountry's name to Myanmar after the army suppressed a nationwide<br>\ndemocracy uprising in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>A lowering of status at the Brunei meeting would imply that<br>\nMyanmar did not attend at all, Evans said.<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar attended an ASEAN meeting for the first time as a<br>\nspecial guest in Bangkok last July. Its attendance at the talks,<br>\nwhich included Australia as an ASEAN dialogue partner, was part<br>\nof a regional policy of constructive engagement with Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Evans made his comments after returning from a visit to ASEAN<br>\ncountries Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia to discuss<br>\nregional security issues ahead of the Brunei meeting. The other<br>\nASEAN countries are the Philippines and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks coincided with what an exiled Myanmarese dissident<br>\ncalled a shameful show of support for SLORC on Friday by former<br>\nAustralian prime minister Bob Hawke, whose recent visit to<br>\nMyanmar was condemned by some groups.<\/p>\n<p>SLORC was genuinely committed to improving the economic well<br>\nbeing of the people and was responsible for many \"good things\",<br>\nHawke told a national parliamentary inquiry.<\/p>",
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