China tells Burmese junta to stop crackdown now

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Source: Mizzima News

Shyamal Sarkar
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

September 30, 2007 - A perturbed China, rattled with the escalating violence in Burma, given that it will be hosting the 2008 Olympic games, has asked the Burmese military junta to put an immediate halt to the violent crackdown on demonstrating monks and Burmese people.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, during a telephone conversation with the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday said China is concern with situations in Burma and urged all parties concern to show restraint in the face of growing protests.

"China hopes that all parties concerned in Myanmar show restraint, resume stability through peaceful means as soon as possible, promote domestic reconciliation and achieve democracy and development," Wen said, in a statement release by the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs.

China, has been watching the events unfolding in strife torn Burma, and has been hinting that the junta do something about it. The UN special envoy's visit to Burma, where he met with the Burma Army brass with his three-member team in the new jungle capital in Nay Pyi Taw and followed it up with a 90-minute meeting with the Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate in a state guest house in Rangoon, may have spurred the Chinese government to act.
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