Laura Bush on Burma:
“The World has Been Remarkably Silent”
September 27, 2007 12:57 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/white_house/index.html
Jennifer Parker
ABC News’ Ann Compton Reports: Laura Bush, in the most significant foreign policy issue she has taken up, is way ahead of her husband opposing the repression now spilling into bloodshed in Southeast Asia.
For over a year, the First Lady has been lobbying world leaders and politicians at home to speak out on conditions in the country that the U.S. refuses to call anything but Burma, its name before a military junta sezied control and renamed it Myanmar.
“The world has been remarkably silent,” she told Senators on Capitol Hill as the prison sentence was supposed to lapse for Aung San Suu Ki, the Nobel Peace laureate who has been under arrest since her political party won an election in Burma and the military coup overturned the results.