EU delegation goes to Burma

An EU delegation has recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Burma aimed at gauging the military backed government’s openness to reform.

“Our first impressions of this mission is that it appears to be a complete failure”, says Mark Farmaner, the director of Burma Campaign, UK.

Burma, called Myanmar by the government, held its first elections in 20 years last November but the military is still seen as firmly in charge.

The fact is the EU is ready relax sanctions in response to positive change, but there has been no positive change,” he told Vatican Radio. “All the political prisoner – more than 2000 – are in jail, you still have attacks against ethnic minority civilians. The problems remain.”

Listen to the full interview with Mark Farmaner: