Jimmy Carter joins 'The Elders' in calling for an end to sectarian violence in Myanmar

Published January 13, 2015

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and two other former world leaders who are part of a group known as "The Elders" have wrapped up a visit to Myanmar with calls to address spiraling Buddhist-led violence against minority Muslims.

They said in a press release that "these senseless, destructive, repeated acts of brutality" could not be ignored.

But they also praised Myanmar's transition from a half-century of military dictatorship to a budding democracy. They pointed to the release of thousands of political prisoners, cease-fire agreements with many of the country's armed ethnic groups and an end to censorship.

Carter, president from 1977-81, was joined on the trip by Martti Ahtisaari, former president of Finland, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway.

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