Re: Flash on Burma (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Flash on Burma (fwd)


  >Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 23:16:41 +0700
  >Sender: Southeast Asia Discussion List <SEASIA-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
  >From: "Peter E. Beal" <beal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  >Subject: Re: Flash on Burma
  >
  >On Mon, 14 Feb 1994, Maureen Aung-Thwin wrote:
 
  >>Listen to BBC World Service tonight (Monday, Feb. 14, GMT, starting with
  >>their midnight broadcast) then Tuesday a.m. see front page of New York Times
,
  >>for big story on first outsider visit to Aung San Suu Kyi. Lots of implica-
  >>tions.
 
  >Flash, Part II.  It was it announced on the BBC, just a few hours ago,
  >that Aung San Suu Kyi would be detained at least until the middle of next
  >year.  In partial recognition of the five year limit on house arrest, the
  >spokesman of SLORC said that the first year of her detention was being
  >considered an "arrest" period and that her house arrest started in 1990.
 
  >One step forward, two steps back.
 
Thanks for the above posting.
Surprises, surprises... what can one expect from a group of military men
who ignored the election and literally shot men, women, students and monks
off the street.
 
They will think of something else when middle of 1995 comes around... Perhaps,
they made a mistake??? What a bunch of crooks.
 
Coban Tun