Our first live-streaming debate on the weekend was such a success –  Intelligence Squared became the seventh most discussed topic on Twitter, with over 10,000 online viewers – that we are delighted to announce our next two debates will also be available to watch live on the internet.

Intelligence Squared is excited to announce that the debate “It is time to lift sanctions against Burma”, will be live-streamed to the world for free at 6:45PM GMT on December 2, 2009 at www.intelligencesquared.com/live.

The panelists will be debating the success of economic sanctions against the Burmese military junta. The detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD (National League for Democracy) are said to be in favour of maintaining international sanctions, although many argue the existing ones have had no effect on the government’s anti-democratic stance, and have merely inflicted more unnecessary suffering on the Burmese people.

The highly distinguished panel includes Thant Myint-U (Former head of policy planning in the UN’s Department of Political Affairs), Mark Farmaner (Director of Burma Campaign), Derek Tonkin (Former British ambassador to both Vietnam and Thailand, and current chairman of Network Myanmar) and Brad Adams (Executive Director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division).