Myanmar News Release Vol 10 No.16 (r)

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This is someone's side of the story, but it does not acknowledge the
experiences and opinions of the participants about whom this is written.

When will the persons about whom this story is written be allowed to
present that side of the story?  Is there any law against that?



On 29 Jul 1998 OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx wrote:

>                                 EMBASSY OF MYANMAR
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>                                         OTTAWA
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>                         MYANMAR NEWS RELEASE
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>             VOL.10                             JULY 29, 
> 1998                   NO.16
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> AN UPDATE ON THE POLITICAL STANDOFF
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>  The political demonstration of Mrs. Suu Kyi Aris in Myanmar by
> sitting in her car on the highway to Pathein (Bassein) enters its sixth
> day.   She has so far been rejecting any offer of dialogue with
> government officials (including the second highest ranking police officer
> in the country) for the seventh time.    Meanwhile, upon
> her request, seven bottles of drinking water have been supplied by the
> officials, who are also capable of supplying nutrients, but hoping that
> she will soon come to her senses and comply with their request to return
> home peacefully.
> 
>  Although this unconventional form of politicking with an attention-
> seekingmotive may have been done in concert with some of her foreign
> supporterswho, in turn, are doing their best to publicize the event, the
> majorityof the peace-loving population of this Buddhist country have so far
> takenlittle notice of this Western style political stunt that they will, inany
> case, find it hard to understand.    Especially thatwhy anyone living within
> this peaceful nation would want it to descendinto political chaos similar to
> that of 1988 just to make Western predictionson Myanmar gain some desperately
> needed credibility.
> 
>  Even her own medical doctors who came from Yangon to check onher have
> returned home which should indicate that there are no serioushealth concerns
> at this moment.
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