A report by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and retired archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa"Threat to Peace: A Call for the U.N. Security Council to Act on Burma"confirms the need for U.N. intervention. It details how the situation in Burma fulfills each of the criteria used for past intervention by the Security Council: overthrow of an elected government. armed conflicts with ethnic minorities:. widespread human rights violations. outflow of refugeesover 700.000. and drug production and trafficking and the spread of HIV/AIDS. I firmly believe that momentum for United Nations Security Council action is on our side and I am confident that body will revisit this resolution again this year. I am also hopeful that the new United Nations Secretary General Ban Kimoon will personally get involved in putting pressure on the military junta to respect the wishes of the people of Burma and the international community by releasing Aung San Suu Kyi and restoring democratic government.
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