MPs from all parties on the International Human Rights Sub-Committee held a news conference at on Friday, June 1, 2012.

(Ottawa) -- MPs from all parties on the International Human Rights Sub-Committee held a news conference at on Friday, June 1, 2012. The subject of the news conference is the continuing widespread persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in Burma by the military regime, despite recent modest democratic reforms that have seen Aung Sang Suu Syi take a seat in Burma's Parliament. Members of the Commons sub-committee on International Human Rights who attended include Russ Hiebert, MP, David Sweet, MP, Wayne Marston, MP, and Irwin Cotler, MP.