Europeans are very compassionate and kind people. One of the EU countries every year enjoys the world number one position of country with best human rights. Usually in such rankings, many EU countries are even above the US.

EU has many strong laws to protect and safe-guard the human rights of European citizens. And EU also has law-courts and other mechanisms to make sure that individual nations of the EU strictly follows those European Human Rights Laws.

Moreover, the EU also holds a very crucial role in democratization and human rights affairs around the world.

We have seen the success of re-stabilization and restoring of peace in Kosovo and the Balkans. We have seen the impressive progresses on the restoration of democracy and human rights in Afghanistan. European countries has taken a crucial role and done a good job in such places like Kosovo and Afghanistan etc. But we also see the chaos in Iraq where EU has more or less declined to participate or cooperate since from the very beginning.

Without EU backing we cannot hope to get a binding resolution from United Nations and its Security Council. Without the support of EU, United Nations will not be able to take tough actions on Burma.

So, we need EU on our side.

But recent developments raised our concerns about where EU is leading to.

Last year EU commissioned a report from regime apologists who, consequently, in their report advised EU to engage more and more with the notorious military regime of Burma. Since then EU has opened a new embassy/office in Rangoon and in turn allowed a new embassy of Burmese military regime in Brussels. And EU gave millions of Euros of aid money to the regime_ of course EU intended it to be a humanitarian aid, but the problems is that we can never know if it will not end up in the pockets of corrupt military Generals; and worse still the money might even be funneled secretly into army coffers to buy more guns and ammunition to be used in shooting at peaceful protestors whenever pro-democracy demonstrations occur.

Now EU is considering to lift travel ban on Burmese military officials so that these nasty Generals will be able to come to Europe to attend important international conferences. In such international conferences, cunning Burmese Generals will try to buy support from some European countries by offering lucrative natural gas exploration rights in Burma in return for their support.

Currently US and UK are pushing Burma's case onto UN Security Council to get a binding tough resolution on Burma. But with a softening EU we are deeply concerned that Burma will become just another case of failure in UN as has happened with Sudan_ a country without human rights but with a rich supply of natural gas.