[Buddha-l] Tokyo pulls plug on £2.3m for Burma university project

[jkirk]

Finally----one of Burma's big trade partners does something.
JK
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http://tinyurl.com/24o35b 

Tokyo pulls plug on £2.3m for university project
· US and other international sanctions may follow 

Ian MacKinnon, south-east Asia correspondent
Wednesday October 17, 2007
The Guardian 

Burma's military regime came under further pressure yesterday as Japan
halted a multimillion-pound humanitarian project in protest at the bloody
suppression of last month's pro-democracy protests. 

The cut in grants by one of the region's most influential players follows
the EU's decision to toughen sanctions and signals from the US that it will
shortly stiffen its measures against the junta's leadership. 

Japan, once Burma's largest aid donor, said it had decided to cut the
funding in response to international outrage over the crackdown. It hoped
the move would encourage the regime to change course and work on moving
towards democracy. 
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