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Actor Jim Carrey has urged the United Nations Security Council to ban all international arms shipments to Myanmar to pressure the country to end its brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters and its detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
"This is a Government that uses its weapons not in self-defence, but against its own citizens," the actor/comedian told a news conference across the street from the United Nations.
"The time has come for the United Nations Security Council to start acting less like a group of corporations and more like united nations," he said, urging China and Russia - Security Council members that have been resistant to sanctions - to back the ban
