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This op-ed piece by Paulo Sergio Pinheiro is excellent. How long can we let these war crimes continue???

The lives of innocent people are worthless in the eyes of their own government. And the world leaders and organizations who are supposed to prevent genocide and war crimes do nothing!!!

Op-Ed Contributor - End Burma’s System of Impunity - NYTimes.com: "Over the past 15 years, the Burmese Army has destroyed over 3,300 villages in a systematic and widespread campaign to subjugate ethnic groups. U.N. reports indicate that Burmese soldiers have frequently recruited child soldiers, used civilians as minesweepers and forced thousands of villagers into slave labor." Read the rest of the article here: End Burma’s System of Impunity - NYTimes.com

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