Respect Myanmar sovereignty, China says after trial

[Heidi]

Source: Reuters

Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:57pm

BEIJING (Reuters) - The world should respect Myanmar's judicial sovereignty following the sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in detention, China said on Wednesday, suggesting Beijing would not back U.N. action against the country.

A court in Yangon handed down the sentence to the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday for violating an internal security law.

Western nations pressed the U.N. Security Council to adopt a statement condemning the sentence, but other countries, including veto-wielding members Russia and China, stalled for time.

The verdict drew criticism from leaders around the world. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown called it "monstrous." French President Nicolas Sarkozy said it was "brutal and unjust."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu repeated a call for all sides in Myanmar to talk to each other, but requested non-interference from the outside world.



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[Lagomorph]

1. Sure, why not...

They arrest the victim of a foreign trespasser and give her 18 months.

Yeah, I'll get right on that... I'll have to learn to put up with ANYTYHING, out of respect for national sovereignty.

Civil rights? nahhhhh

Human Rights? nahhhhh

Poverty and starvation? Long established national traditions.....

[FarCenter]

6. She let the trespasser stay for a couple of days.

That made her complicit, and not purely innocent. She should have turned him over to the authorities when he arrived.

[Codeine]

10. And I heard she was dressed provocatively too! She wanted it!

Fuck that blame-the-victim bullshit. Fuck making excuses for a ruling military junta.

[Lagomorph]

15. What part of calling ...

...the police on yourself sounds like a good idea? They don't let her communicate with the outside world.

She knew what would happen to both of them, if she did. Cops, guns, arrests, interrogations, humiliation, accusations... guilty until proven innocent and then guilty of something, anything at all.

You think they would just walk in and politely escort the guy out?

[Mixopterus]

2. China, oppressive power since antiquity

More proof that China is no friend of true freedom.

[Mythsaje]

3. But, hey, at least they're now money-hungry capitalists too, right?

Welcome to DU...

And, yeah, China's history is pretty darn oppressive. Just ask the Shaolin.

[sybylla]

4. But not Taiwan's sovereignty.

Is somebody itching for a fight?

[JonQ]

14. I had that same thought

Although I guess they wouldn't consider it sovereignty, since they never acknowledged that taiwan was another country.

[4dsc]

5. Fuck you China...

[formercia]

7. Non-interference?

"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu repeated a call for all sides in Myanmar to talk to each other, but requested non-interference from the outside world."

Since when is Myanmar part of China?

[BOG PERSON]

8. SAVE THE FEMALE

SAVE THE FEMALE

[Codeine]

9. Respect Tibetan sovereignty then, you sanctimonous fucks. nt

[TheCoxwain]

11. China published a report on how India may be balkanized ... and this was

recent news on BBC.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8197428.stm



I am beginning to be very suspicious of China's motives in the region

[TheCoxwain]

12. Let us invade Myanmar

[Odin2005]

13. What about TIBET you fucking fascist hypocrites?

:grr:

[ohio2007]

16. oil is the card that China plays in keeping the country calm

hey, it's only an 18 month detention and not worth any threat to the petroleum interets China holds there
:sarcasm: