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Subject: FWD: Students: Burma More Repressive

In a message dated 97-03-05 07:28:50 EST, you write:

>Subj:	Students: Burma More Repressive
>Date:	97-03-05 07:28:50 EST
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>      RANGOON, Burma (AP) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says
>Burma's military has intensified its efforts to crush her political
>party with threats, arrests and abductions.
>      In addition to intimidating National League for Democracy
>members who refuse to resign, the army two weeks ago abducted 12
>party officials, including a local deputy chairman whose body was
>found later by the side of the road, Mrs. Suu Kyi told a news
>conference at the home of the party's vice chairman Tuesday.
>      Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her nonviolent
>campaign for democracy, called the military's actions ``crude,
>inhuman conduct.''
>      The NLD won a landslide victory in a 1990 general election but
>Burma's military regime refused to cede power. The regime succeeded
>an earlier dictatorship in 1988 and killed thousands of
>anti-government protesters.
>      Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest in 1995, but the government
>has rejected her calls for a political dialogue, twice prevented
>her party from holding a congress and no longer allows her to speak
>in public.
>      Suu Kyi said that her party chairman, Aung Shwe, had sent a
>letter to the head of the ruling State Law and Order Restoration
>Council protesting ``the lawless arrests'' of party members.
>      The letter, sent to the SLORC's top leader, Gen. Than Shwe, said
>that in Toungoo in Pegu state, north of Rangoon, about a dozen NLD
>members were taken away by the army.
>      She said the missing men, members of the local party
>organizational committee, never returned.
>      The deputy chairman who was killed was from the ethnic Karen
>minority group. Karen National Union rebels, who have fought for
>more autonomy since 1949, are on the verge of being crushed by a
>massive army offensive.
>      Refugees fleeing to Thailand have accused soldiers of rape and
>random executions.
>      Suu Kyi's contacts with the news media and the public have
>become rare as the regime has erected roadblocks around her
>lakeside compound.
>      She said Burma's expected admission to the Association of
>Southeast Asian Nations in July will only strengthen the ruling
>junta and prevent democratic change.
>      AP-NY-03-05-97 0725EST
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