GENEVA: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday added her voice to the campaign to release Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for the past four years.
The release of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners “would demonstrate a willingness (by Myanmar's leaders) to abide by universally accepted human rights standards,” Arbour said in a statement.
“It would also, I believe, facilitate national dialogue and free the Government and the people to focus on the need to unite the country and to allow the emergence of democratic structures to decide on the way forward,” she added. Suu Kyi's detention is due to be reviewed by the military-ruled state on Sunday.—AFP
