New report warns crisis in Burma “puts the credibility of the UN at stake”

Release date: Monday 7th February 2011 Release time: Embargoed until 00.01 Tuesday 8th February 2011The United Nations is at risk of losing legitimacy for failing to establish a formal inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity in Burma, according to a new report published by the German Marshall Fund and the Legatum Institute. The report’s author, Benedict Rogers, catalogues a grim list of large-scale human rights abuses and brutal oppression of ethnic minorities and opposition. For Rogers, the abuses in Burma are of such a large scale as to warrant charges of crimes against humanity