Sen. Baucus Supports Burmese Democr

[carol@xxxxxxx]

Subject: Sen. Baucus Supports Burmese Democracy

Following is an encouraging response from the office of Sen. Baucus (D-Montana).

>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 10:21:05 EST
>To: Carol Schlenker & Aung Thu <carol@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: HR.3540
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>     Thanks for your note.  I'm sure we'll visit that issue when the Senate 
>     considers the annual appropriations for the State Department and other 
>     diplomatic activities.
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>     I have expressed my support for an international arms ambargo on the 
>     SLORC regime, for greater American diplomatic contacts with exiled 
>     Burmese leaders, and for assistance to Burmese refugess in Thailand.
>     
>     I agree with you that the Burmese distatorship is a tragedy for the 
>     Burmese people.  I will continue to support an American policy 
>     intended to restore democracy and human rights in Burma.
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>Subject: HR.3540
>Author:  Carol Schlenker & Aung Thu <carol@xxxxxxx> at Internet
>Date:    7/17/96 10:46 PM
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>From: Carol Schlenker & Aung Thu <carol@xxxxxxx> 
>Subject: HR.3540
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>Carol Schlenker and Aung Thu
>No. 404, Uematsu Mansion
>4-13-10, Sengoku
>Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112
>JAPAN
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>Dear Senator Baucus:
>     
>I am an registered American voter and my husband is a Burmese democracy 
>activist in exile in Japan.  We are writing to ask you to please vote for 
>HR.3540, the "Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 
>Appropriations Act, 1997."
>     
>HR.3540 contains language which would greatly aid our efforts to restore 
>democracy and human rights to Burma.  The mandatory sanctions provisions of 
>the "Burma Freedom and Democracy Act" (S.1511) have been incorporated into 
>HR.3540 as an amendment (Section 569).  We activists believe that tough 
>economic sanctions are the most effective nonviolent means of pressuring 
>SLORC, the military dictatorship, to negotiate with democratic leader Daw 
>Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy.  Negotiation between 
>these two parties, in turn, is the best hope for bringing peace and justice 
>to Burma without further bloodshed.  As the Nobel laureate has said, "We 
>must choose between dialogue or utter devastation."
>     
>On the other hand, failure to impose sanctions on SLORC, one of the world's 
>most abusive regimes, will only encourage the generals to continue to ignore 
>the will of the Burmese people and to exploit the country exclusively for 
>their own benefit and the benefit of a few foreign interests like Unocal and 
>Texaco, who have reportedly hired expensive lobbyists to defeat the Burma 
>sanctions amendment.
>     
>Please, Senator, heed the call of our elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
>and support sanctions against SLORC, the illegitimate regime which has 
>brought nothing but suffering to the Burmese people. 
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>Thank you for your thoughtful consideration.
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