Junta’s children free to study
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Harriet Alexander; 20/5/08
The Department of Foreign Affairs has known since October that family members of the Burmese junta who are banned from conducting business in Australia are living here but has taken no action. Local Burmese have identified children of the regime’s most senior figures studying in Australian universities, despite some of their names being among the 418 political and military leaders on the Federal Government’s financial sanctions list. Academics at NSW’s Macquarie University told the department and the Reserve Bank soon after the list was released in October that at least three of those named were living in Sydney.
