{"id":1371,"date":"2007-10-01T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/10\/sanctions-can-work-in-burma-by.html"},"modified":"2007-10-01T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T16:31:24","slug":"sanctions-can-work-in-burma-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/10\/sanctions-can-work-in-burma-by.html","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions Can Work in Burma (by David Cortright)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>International solidarity and support for the Burmese democracy movement is growing, as evidenced in the imposition of new economic sanctions against the military regime. The European Union and the U.S. government have announced additional measures to isolate the dictators. The democracy movement has supported the imposition of these international sanctions as an effective means of pressuring the Burmese government, as <A href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=14778834&amp;sc=emaf\">I explain in a recent NPR interview<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Cortright\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sojo.net\/images\/blog\/portrait_cortright.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><span><br \/>\nDavid Cortright<\/span> is a board member of Sojourners\/Call to Renewal. He is research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and president of the Fourth Freedom Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International solidarity and support for the Burmese democracy movement is growing, as evidenced in the imposition of new economic sanctions against the military regime. 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