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Statement on 8th National Students'



STATEMENT ON THE 8TH NATIONAL STUDENTS' SPORTS FESTIVAL
IN BURMA
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1.   The military regime,  changed  its name again as State
Peace and Devellopment Council (SPDC), is preparing the 8th
National Students' Sports Festival at Haka,  the capital of
Chin  state on 28  March 1998.  Students  from all the 14th
states   will   participate   in   15   items   of  sports.

2.   The  military  regime  has  been  conducting  killing,
arresting and detaining of students and politically eminent
persons  for their  demand for  democracy and  human rights
since  the coupe detat  in 1962.  On July  7 of 1962,  just
after  fore months of  the coupe,  the  regime named itself
Revelutional   Council   started   crushing   the  peaceful
demonstration  of Rangoon university students in the campus
living  hundreds  of  students  dead.  The  students  union
building  of Rangoon university was  blown up with students
in  the building by dynamite in the next morning.  In 1974,
Ex-UN  Secretary  General  U Thant's  funeral  uprising was
broke  and hundreds of students were killed bny the regime.
In 1988,  when the nation-wide prodemocracy movement led by
students  was cracked down,   hundreds of armless students,
common  people and even monks were  shot dead on the strees
of the cities of burma.

3. The military regime has been organising Students' Sports
Festival  every year with the hope  to erase its image;  to
get  support of the students;  to fasely show international
community  that its  the unite  and gather  students as its
will.   in the mean time,  the military regime still closes
all  the colleges and universities for fear of revealing of
its treaments to the people.

4.   To  organise  the festival  successful  in  Chin Stat,
Maj.Tet  Toe Sein has been  giving responsibility and he is
busy  issuing unjust and illegal orders on the people.  The
major  forcefully  gathered hundreds  of students  from all
lkthe  nine districts of  Chin state to  pratice dances for
opening  and  closing ceremony  of  the festival  for three
mionths.  These student,  without efficiend food supply are
made  to work  at construction  works of  the stadium while
they  are not in practising  dances.  Each students in Chin
state  have been forced to contribute mony for the festival
since  1996 and some parts of teachers'salaries are cut for
the festival. Moreover, the students all over the state are
threatened  if they  fail jto participate  in the festival,
they  will be expelled from  their schlool.  Because of the
cruel  and ruthless treatments of  the regime more than 150
students  have  feld to  Mizoram  state of  India recently.

5.   We  the Chin  Students Union  based in  India strongly
condemn  the tyranny  militaty rule over  Chin students and
the  common people  and stroungly oppose  the organising of
the   8th  National  Students,    Festival  which  aims  to
strengthen power of the junter.

6.   With regard to the  8th Students Festival,  we demand;

     a)   Discontinunce of the National Students Sports
          Festiva.
     b)   Rights to education.
     c)   Total termination of suppression to Chin
          students and the people. 
     d)   Immediate reopening of all colleges and
          uinversities.
     e)   Restoration of democracy and human rights and
          building up of genue federal union in Burma.



Central Committee
Chin Students Union


16th March 1998
New Delhi.


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