一名联合国特使说，尽管新的名义上的文官政府在缅甸就职施政，缅甸东部边境一带广泛的侵犯人权现象持续存在。联合国缅甸问题人权特使金塔纳星期一说，人权问题包括没收土地、强迫国内迁徙、内部处置、法外杀戮以及性暴力。金塔纳对在泰国的缅甸难民进行一周的访问后在曼谷发表这些言论。金塔纳自从去年呼吁联合国对缅甸的人权问题进行调查以来还没有获得访问缅甸的签证。
缅甸三月底结束了长期以来的军政府统治，建立了新政府，但是金塔纳说，新政府在处理边境存在的问题方面作得很少。他说，他仍然相信联合国需要成立一个委员会，对缅甸进行调查。
A United Nations envoy says widespread human rights abuses continue along Burma’s eastern border in spite of the inauguration of a new nominally civilian government.Tomas Quintana, the U.N. human rights envoy to Burma, said Monday the abuses include land confiscation, forced labor, internal displacement, extrajudicial killings and sexual violence.Quintana spoke in Bangkok after spending a week visiting with Burmese refugees in Thailand. He has not been granted a visa to visit Burma since he called for a U.N. commission of inquiry into Burma’s rights abuses last year.
Burma dissolved its longstanding military junta and installed a new government at the end of March. But, Quintana said, the new administration has done little to address the problems at the border. He said he still believes a commission of inquiry is needed.