US ALREADY SHOT ANOTHER SANCTION BULLET TO PARTNERS OF BURMA'S REGIME. BUT WE MUST WATCH THAT IT IS HIT OR NOT TO THE AIMED TARGET.
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The White House insisted the regime release Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading democratic activist and 1991 Nobel peace winner who has been held under house arrest in Rangoon since 2003, and other pro-democracy advocates, and end military offensives and human rights abuses against minorities. The sanctions announced Monday add to the 33 people and 11 companies already placed under such measures since last year. Additionally, visa restrictions have been placed on nearly 900 officials and their families, the White House said. The 88 Generation Students group, which was instrumental in last year's pro-democracy demonstrations which were murderously halted by the dictatorship, urged "citizens around the world ... to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics in response to China's bankrolling of the military junta that rules our country of Burma with guns and threats."The 88 Generation Students accused key Burmese trading partner China of arming the junta and failing to help bring about a meaningful dialogue between the Burmese regime and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party.The 88 Generation Students is named after the August, 1988, democratic uprising, also crushed brutally by the Burmese army with the loss of many lives.
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