The Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, Ben Rogers, testified at a hearing on Burma in the European Parliament in Brussels on 20 March, alongside the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma, Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, and Burmese exiles.

Ben Rogers recently returned from his 13^th visit to the Thai-Burmese border, and has visited the Burma region altogether 17 times since 2000. In the hearing he presented fresh evidence of the gross violations of human rights perpetrated by the ruling military regime.

Burma was ranked the worst violator among 18 countries monitored by the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission in 2006.