January 24, 2012 Burma rights body lays into HRW report

Burma's National Human Rights Commission, which started doing work in October 2011, criticized the Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report for not recognizing the progress Burma has made in the nine months since the new government has been in power.

HRW researcher,David Mathieson, told the Democratic Voice of Burma, that he "conceded that positive steps had been taken by the government recently, he warned that glaring problems are not being adequately addressed.

'One of the most important things the government can do – and there have been signals from President Thein Sein that he will do this – is to rein in the military. The culture of abuse against civilians has to end,' he told DVB