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Subject: CALL for ACTION on Burma (fwd)

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Subject: CALL for ACTION on Burma (fwd)

Newsgroups: bit.listserv.seasia-l
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 10:02:22 -0500
Sender: Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CALL TO ACTION--BURMA

A CALL TO ACTION!!

January 4, 1994
Burma's 'Independence' Day

Worldwide Demonstrations for
Freedom and Human Rights in Burma

Inside Burma, citizens cannot openly demonstrate without risking arrest or
worse.  They can only show their solidarity with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by
placing themselves under "Voluntary House Arrest" on January 4.

                **Without Freedom, Independence has no meaning!**

Outside Burma, Burmese and Friends of Burma can and must demonstrate their
support for democracy and freedom in Burma.  Let's plan many different events
for January 4.

*Expose Burma's lack of freedom under the Slorc military junta.

*Protest Slorc's selling off the country's natural resources to finance its
brutal civil war.

*Call for immediate release of all political prisoners, including Nobel Peace
Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

*Demand a stop to the dams on the Salween and Moei Rivers and the pipline
through Three Pagodas Pass.

*Pray for Peace in Burma and an end to religious persecution of Buddhist monks.

Inform the local media of your plan and send a report after the event.  For
international coverage, fax all your press releases both before and after the
event to some or all of the following:

British Broadcasting Corporation
        44-71-379-0975
        Attn:  Mr. Derek Brooke Wavell
        (BBC Eastern Service)

Voice of America
        1-202-619-3548
        Attn:  Burma

All Burma Students' Democratic Front
        66-2-379-6678

Democratic Voice of Burma (Norway)
        47-22-11-4988

Kyodo News Service (Japan)
        81-3-5573-8082
        Attn:  Mr. Zaw Win Maung
        (World Services Section)

Please feel free to cross-post this call to action to as many lists as you deem
appropriate.

(signed) Burmese Relief Center-Japan
        266-27 Ozuku-cho
        Kashihara-shi
        Nara-ken  634
        Japan
        tel: (07442) 2-8236
        fax: (07442) 4-6254