Over One Million U.S. Dollar Spends

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1996 Budget for Burma Reported by National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
1. Albert Einstein Institution 
$60,000
Providing consolations, intensive courses, and publications on strategic
nonviolent struggle to a range of Burmese pro-democracy groups, including
several ethnic and student organizations.



2. Associates to Develop Democratic Burma
$40,000
To publish Burma Alert, an eight page monthly international newsletter about
the democracy movements in Burma with a circulation of 5,000; to maintain and
archive for materials on Burma's democracy movements; and to manage the Burma
Donors Secretariat, which coordinates the work of organizations with the
projects in the region.

3. Center for International Private Enterprise 
$106,295 (NED+State Department Funds)
Enabling the Associates to Develop Democratic Burma (EADDB) to serve as a
coordinating center where Burmese and international economists research,
debate, and draft economic development and liberalization strategies that can
be implemented once political openings occur.

4. Free Trade Union Institute 
$400,000 (State Dept. Funds)
For the Asian American Free Labor Institute to enable Burma's exiled labor
movements, the Federation of Trade Unions of Burma to carry out education
programs on labor rights and democracy and to offers its well-established
infrastructure to assist the efforts the National Coalition Government of
Union of Burma (NCGUB), the All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF), and
other pro-democracy groups. 

5. Human Rights for the People of Burma 
$115,000
In collaboration with the NCGUB and the Norwegian Burma Council, to continue
the democratic vice of Burma (DVB) radio broadcast, which airs world news,
information on the Burmese democracy movements, and ethnic language
programming in Burma, India, and Thailand twice daily.

6. International Republican Institute 
$120,000
To assist National League for Democracy-Liberated Areas (NLD-LA) in
reconstituting its organization and leadership structure within SLORC now know
as SPDC controlled Burma, and to allow the Political Defiance Committee to
train Burmese to oppose human and civil rights abuses nonviolently.

7. National Coalition for Democracy 
$55,000
To enable the NCGUB to promote increased international pressure response to
Aung San Suu Kyi's offer of political dialogue, including testifying before
the UN Commission for Human Rights in Feb. 1997 and advocating a strengthened
mandate for the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights. 

8. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs 
$247,786
For a fix month program to enhance the advocacy skills of local democrats and
further their massage internationally, develop Burmese democracy support
network in Asia, and encourage greater dialogue and cooperation among Burmese
democratic forces. 

9. New Era Journal
$36,000
For a newspaper published by exile journalists and editors and smuggle into
the country: New Era Journal provides extensive and accurate information about
current conditions in Burma, the democracy movement, and complete texts of
speeches and policy statements by democracy activists. 

Nonviolent International 
$70,000
Conducting workshops in strategic nonviolence for Burmese Political Defiance
Committee in Thailand and India-based Committee for Nonviolent Action in Burma
(CNAB), and awarding subgrants to Democratic Party for a New Society and CNAB
for democratic organizing and expending information networks into and outside
on Burma.

Total Expenditure of 1996 Burma's democratization  
$ 1,250,081   

Note: This report claims nothing more than its original report.

The Rangoon Post Working Group.